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S8 Ep178: PREVIEW — Elizabeth Peek — Trump's Embrace of AI and Crypto Viewed as Essential Against China. Peek defends Donald Trump's strategic alignment with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence technology sectors against partisan criticism characterizing thi

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEWElizabeth Peek — Trump's Embrace of AI and Crypto Viewed as Essential Against China. Peek defends Donald Trump's strategic alignment with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence technology sectors against partisan criticism characterizing this relationship as favoring billionaire elites over working-class economic interests. Peek argues that American technological leadership in AI is strategically critical to national security and economic competitiveness; ceding dominance in artificial intelligence development to China would allow Beijing to establish global technological standards and dictate the future architectural framework governing digital civilization. Peek contends that Americaninnovation leadership in transformative technologies represents essential rather than ancillary to working-class prosperity.
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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, colleague Elizabeth Peake, measuring Donald Trump and his commitment to crypto,

0:07.0

his commitment to AI, his commitment to the future of what we're told to be robotics.

0:14.0

All of this is seen as a negative by some partisans in the world.

0:18.0

Others understand that, as Liz says, if we're not number one,

0:23.9

it's not a good future. Here's Liz to explain. Donald Trump embracing the future.

0:30.6

More of this tonight. Well, actually, people actually know something about this, say that

0:35.3

there is still gigantic demand. We are definitely not overbuilt on data centers.

0:40.5

The demand for energy continues to grow.

0:43.1

But, you know, it's this part of a big narrative that is meant to undermine the economic success of Donald Trump.

0:50.4

And that's a fair statement.

0:52.1

Democrats are out there saying, well, Donald Trump is all in with techno billionaires.

1:00.6

He's not concerned anymore about the working people, the working class Americans who elected him.

1:06.1

Instead, he's thrown in his lot with a crypto group and the people involved in AI generation and stuff.

1:12.3

And I would just want to sit those people down and say, if we don't lead in AI, are you really

1:19.1

content with China picking up the ball and being the big AI masters of the world?

1:24.6

I cannot imagine a worse outcome because China already wants to basically

1:30.0

dictate the narrative of the world. And this would give them such an absolutely open plan

1:36.5

for doing exactly that. So kudos to Trump.

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