On Monday, President Donald Trump announced his plan to sign an executive order aimed at creating a “one rule” framework for overseeing artificial intelligence within the United States.

“In order to sustain our dominance in AI, there needs to be just One Rulebook. We are currently leading all nations in this competition, but this advantage will diminish if we permit 50 states, some of which are poor participants, to take part in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS,” Trump expressed in a post on Truth Social.

This year, numerous states like California and New York have passed legislation at the state level that deals with various AI-related matters, including transparency, protections for whistleblowers, and safety for users and teenagers. Trump did not elaborate on which states he deemed poor participants or the criteria he used to assess them.

A leaked draft of the executive order from last week allegedly directed federal agency leaders and cabinet officials to consider means of penalizing states that have existing AI regulations, as reported by The Verge.

Earlier this year, Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act aimed to ban state regulation of AI for ten years, a proposal that Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green notably opposed. The temporary ban was quite unpopular among registered voters, as shown by a poll conducted in mid-May. The Senate eventually voted down the proposal with a 99-1 outcome. Some MAGA supporters, including Trump ally Steve Bannon, continue to <a