Trump Tells UN General Assembly U.S. Documents Will Call AI 'Super,' Rejects 'Globalist Scheme' to Control AI

Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, President Donald Trump announced that “all of United States documents, and hopefully the world, will be changed to use the much more accurate term ‘super,’ as opposed to ‘artificial’” when referring to AI. In the same address he said the United States “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control” artificial intelligence, and — per Reuters’ account carried by U.S. News — said the Department of Justice would watch the industry and could rein in AI companies if needed. Trump had used the “super intelligence” framing in a Truth Social post the day before.

The rename is a speech, not yet an instrument. Breaking Defense reported that, as of publication, there was “no official announcement from the White House on how this is to be implemented.” Capture-stage reporting described it as an order to all agencies; this entry records it as an announced intent until a written directive surfaces. If one does, the question that matters is whether it reaches solicitation and contract language, where the term “artificial intelligence” carries statutory and procurement definitions.

The load-bearing element is the enforcement locus, not the vocabulary. Rejecting multilateral AI governance while naming DOJ as the check on AI companies is consistent with the administration’s documented approach: preempt state AI law through a DOJ litigation task force (2025-12-11–eo-14365-ai-preemption-doj-litigation-task-force-against-state-ai-laws), deploy that task force against Colorado’s AI Act (2026-04-24–doj-intervenes-xai-colorado-ai-act-first-eo-14365-deployment), and replace binding federal rules with a voluntary framework (2026-06-02–eo-promoting-advanced-ai-innovation-security-voluntary-framework-shortened-prerelease-window). The pattern routes AI oversight away from rulemaking bodies and legislatures and toward a politically directed prosecutor. The same week, Treasury pursued a bilateral, not multilateral, AI safety channel with China (2026-09-20–bessent-proposes-us-china-ai-safety-incident-notification-he-lifeng-talks).

Sourcing note. The rename quote and the “globalist scheme” quote are verified in Breaking Defense’s text. The DOJ remark is carried in the Reuters headline via U.S. News, which blocked automated fetch at promotion time; it is stated here as Reuters’ characterization rather than as a verbatim quote.