{"id":2498,"date":"2026-05-22T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/trump-postpones-executive-order-on-ai-over-china-concerns-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:39:37","slug":"trump-postpones-executive-order-on-ai-over-china-concerns-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Trump postpones executive order on AI over China concerns \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The US president <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the US position in its AI competition with China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The order would create a voluntary framework for AI developers to engage with the U.S. government before the public release of advanced AI models, two sources familiar with the order told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI think it gets in the way of, you know, we\u2019re leading China, we\u2019re leading everybody, and I don\u2019t want to do anything that\u2019s going to get in the way of that lead,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump did not specify which parts of the executive order he objected to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It comes after the Trump became the first US president in nearly a decade to visit China, and described his meeting with his counterpart Xi Jinping as \u201cvery successful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The administration\u2019s plans were reportedly put on hold after a push from xAI founder <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> and other big tech figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Replying to a post on X about the reporting, <strong>Musk<\/strong> said, \u201cthis is false,\u201d adding: \u201cI still don\u2019t know what was in that EO and the president only spoke to me after declining to sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"a84c0d9a-43d3-4d08-befb-43617128f2fb\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump.\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/050abafeff6bac2aeda37936d7c7aea91d6b5129\/0_0_2095_1397\/master\/2095.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"310.07398568019096\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">President Donald Trump attends an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule.<\/span> Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president Donald Trump postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}