Trump's Killer Robots

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Jason Kander and Ravi Gupta break down the Pentagon’s escalating showdown with Anthropic, as the Pentagon threatens to cut ties or invoke the Defense Production Act while new war-game research from King’s College London shows models from OpenAI, Google, and others recommending nuclear use far more often than humans, alongside a viral video of Sam Altman. They analyze Donald Trump’s State of the Union theatrics on the economy and culture wars, the “two-tier economy” warning from McDonald's’s CEO, his use of the gallery for viral moments on immigration and trans issues, and stark rhetoric from Mike Johnson. Kander and Gupta also dive into the Epstein files, with NPR reporting missing Trump documents, arrests in the U.K. of Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson, and renewed questions about why there’s no U.S. accountability. Plus, they discuss the tariff decision and the fallout from attacks on the Supreme Court, including warnings from National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, an ICE training whistleblower, flight delays tied to Kash Patel that Dick Durbin says hampered the FBI, a youth surge for James Fishback in Florida, and House leadership refusing to call on Tony Gonzales to resign. This and more on the podcast that helps you, the majority of Americans who believe in progress, convince your conservative friends and family to join us—this is Majority 54! Smalls: Get 60% off your first order plus free shipping at https://Smalls.com/MAJORITY54. Nutrafol: Find out why Nutrafol is the best-selling hair growth supplement brand at https://Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code MAJORITY. Check out Ravi's Substack: https://realravigupta.substack.com/p/how-to-stay-off-the-island Join Squadra at https://joinsquadra.com Majority 54 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majority_54 Majority 54 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/majority54 Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonKander Jason on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonkander/ Ravi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaviMGupta Ravi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravimgupta Ravi on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LostDebate Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The longest and most divisive state of the union exemplified the Carl Sandberg, quote,
0:06.6	If the law is against you, argue the facts.
0:08.6	If the facts are against you argue the law, if the law and the facts are against you,
0:12.2	pound the table and yell like hell.
0:14.3	Before we break down the speech, you're going to have to go with us as we continue to dive into
0:17.8	the debate over AI's appropriate role in the military.
0:20.4	And specifically, should robots be allowed to choose when and who to fire upon and how thoroughly
0:26.4	to surveil Americans? We're putting it first because it's the most important debate America
0:31.1	isn't having right now. Then because it's a day that ends in why there's more to be said about
0:36.0	tariffs, Epstein, and ICE. Welcome back to
0:38.1	the podcast for the 54% of Americans who regularly vote for progress and want to convince
0:42.6	their friends and family members to join a majority. This is Majority 54. Well, Jason, as you
0:48.7	said, you know, we're not leading with the State of the Union today because I think this
0:51.6	Anthropic versus Pentagon standoff is by far the
0:54.7	most important story of the year, maybe even the century. And to catch people up here, the
1:00.6	Defense Secretary or Secretary of War, as he likes to call himself, Heggseth gave the CEO of
1:06.2	Anthropic until 5 p.m. this week to drop all AI safeguards for military use, or he'll lose a $200 million
1:13.5	contract. But that's not all what's going on here. He also threatened to use the Defense
1:19.5	Production Act, potentially taking over parts of open AI or anthropic or compelling them to do
1:26.5	certain things for the military, whether they like it or not.
1:29.8	This comes on the same day that a study was released by King's College, London, that showed that when using the three most common AI models, so GPT, Claude, and Gemini, and when they were put through war game simulations, those three
1:44.9	models chose nuclear escalation in 95% of cases.
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