> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://theupgr.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Trump the Baby Boomer Accelerationist - URL: https://theupgr.com/trump-the-baby-boomer-accelerationist/ - Published: 2026-09-09T11:50:48.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-09T11:55:55.000Z - Description: Trump is bullish where it counts. Let's go inside the accelerationist presidency, and where it still fails consumers. - Author: Yaël Ossowski - Tags: tech, biotech, innovation, accelerationist The Orange Man is an economic machine just by virtue of being. The "earned media" economy around **President Donald J. Trump** likely tops out at about **$10 billion a year**. That's more than the GDP of Montenegro. The books, podcasts, news outlets, political advertising, lawyers (*always the lawyers*), and even hedge funds [forking over $100,000 a month](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/truth-social-selling-real-time-200000807.html?ref=theupgr.com) to gain laser-fast access to his Truth Social posts in hopes of fronting the market. While that will personally make Trump plenty of money for the rest of his life (a true *stable genius* of branding), his impact on specific economic regulations as president, specifically those that touch technology, is much more fascinating. One astonishing fact of his second (or third?) stab at the presidency, now more than ten years since he entered political public life, is just how much Trump has embraced "the future" as president, more so than his predecessors. We're not talking about his forecasting about America's prospects or even his investments (which could take up 40,000 more words). Rather, I mean **his willingness to be open to *almost* every new innovation as president**. ### The Baby Boomer Accelerationist Even for someone born in 1946, the ultimate baby boomer, Trump has been willing to plant a flag on some of the boldest economic and emergent technological advances of our time while also gushing endlessly about expanding American energy exploitation and exploration. He's bullish on basically every up and coming company and technology, curious even, and willing to use the machinery of government to remove barriers or speed up approvals. He's applied that same logic to oil drilling, natural gas, nuclear energy, and basically every power generation source...[except wind turbines](https://dcjournal.com/mr-president-leave-wind-projects-alone/?ref=theupgr.com). Trump is a tech bull and he's an energy bull. He sees economic growth as a force for good in the world. Trump is the farthest thing from a doomer. **He's an accelerationist**. Not in the philosophical sense, but practically. Confronted by a new technology, Trump's instinct is to clear the hurdles and get the thing moving rather than try to slow it down and condemn it to a study group. For those who are in the *forever resistance* to the president, that's a principal reason to oppose his efforts. Fair enough. To fans and supporters, it's part of the MAGA appeal, representing a significant reversal of the Biden years. For everyone else, especially consumers who want access to the best innovations available in goods and services and the entrepreneurs who want to deliver them, it could turn out to be the *best thing that could happen at this very moment*. ### Could there have been a Trump-less AI Pump? When entrepreneurs are able to use their creative talents and match them to rapidly changing technology and affordable energy, consumers benefit. But only if the policies allow them. The most clear example is the extreme build-out in the AI industry in the age of the Trump Administration. Think server farms, data centers, token burns, harnesses, tools, models, labs, devices, and plenty of others I've probably tried to "add to cart". Hundreds of billions of dollars in capital spending matched with dividends to communities in the form of jobs and investments. During the Biden Administration, this sector was nascent but already mired in red tape and regulatory delays. Executive orders putting [export controls](https://www.bis.gov/press-release/commerce-strengthens-restrictions-advanced-computing-semiconductors-semiconductor-manufacturing-equipment?ref=theupgr.com) on semiconductors, [reporting requirements](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-11-01/pdf/2023-24283.pdf?ref=theupgr.com) for frontier model developers, and the [AI Diffusion](https://www.bis.gov/press-release/biden-harris-administration-announces-regulatory-framework-responsible-diffusion-advanced-artificial?ref=theupgr.com) rule are the most notable. On energy, there was the [cancellation](https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-01765.pdf?ref=theupgr.com) of the Keystone XL pipeline, the [freezing out](https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-update-public-interest-analysis-enhance-national-security-achieve-clean-energy-goals?ref=theupgr.com) of any new LNG terminals, and the green mandates in the so-called *Inflation Reduction Act.* The Biden Era was not the time to be an AI developer or factory worker just as it was the absolute worst time to be Billy Bob Thornton in *Landman*. Green energy investments and decarbonization were the measuring stick, not cheaper energy for businesses and households. Then Enter Trump. When Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, went on Joe Rogan's podcast last year, he [laid it out](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/12/03/jensen%5Fhuang%5Ftrump%5Fin%5Fperson%5Fsurprised%5Fme%5F.html?ref=theupgr.com): > "And the fact that the fact that he came into office and the first thing that he said was, "Drill, baby, drill." His point is we need energy growth. **Without energy growth, we can have no industrial growth. And that was it saved it saved the AI industry**. There's a legitimate case to be made that were it not for the loosening of energy restrictions and rules around artificial intelligence models and infrastructure, our economy wouldn't be in the position it's in today. We wouldn't be getting a new frontier model every other week and thousands of new jobs at data centers, tech firms, and plenty of other industries. Perhaps, then, we needed Trump the Accelerationist more than we want to admit, which comes with the good and the bad. ### Bring On the New Tech Personally, I was most surprised by Trump's pledge to have CFTC Commissioner Mike Selig "legalize" the protocol Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetual futures market with tokenized equities and crypto wallets rather than brokerage accounts. > Trump is shilling Hyperliquid and you're BEARISH? [pic.twitter.com/dXXhHPW0rG](https://t.co/dXXhHPW0rG?ref=theupgr.com) > > — Yaël Ossowski⚜️ (@YaelOss) [September 2, 2026](https://x.com/YaelOss/status/2095126438160593236?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=theupgr.com) You'll definitely hear *a lot more* about Hyperliquid in the future (especially once the traditional brokers find out). **Here are some other examples where Trump shines:** \-No holds barred defense of building data centers à la "[let data reign](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117190477440173795?ref=theupgr.com)" \-Encouragement of open-source and open-weight AI models to [further American dominance](https://fedscoop.com/open-source-ai-trump-ai-action-plan/?ref=theupgr.com) and to compete with frontier AI companies \-Fair use for AI copyright law (Trump Admin [backing](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-government-backs-openai-new-york-times-copyright-case-2026-09-02/?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com) OpenAI in their lawsuit from the New York Times) \-Red tape reduction and faster approvals for next-generation nuclear energy ([via Department of Energy](https://www.energy.gov/articles/fact-sheet-energy-department-delivering-accelerating-deployment-nuclear-power?ref=theupgr.com)) \-The Bitcoin President "[I'm a big crypto guy](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/bitcoin-rebounds-after-trump-says-hes-become-a-big-crypto-guy.html?ref=theupgr.com)" \-More permissive rules for drones, flying cars, and supersonic airplanes ([Executive Order](https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/president-trump-signs-executive-orders-on-drones-flying-cars-and-supersonics/?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com)) \-More permissive rules on autonomous vehicles ([via Department of Transportation](https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-issues-first-ever-demonstration-exemption-american-built-automated-vehicles?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com)) \-Embrace of a federal standard on prediction markets ([via standardized CFTC rules](https://stateline.org/2026/06/10/trump-administration-proposes-new-rules-for-prediction-markets/?ref=theupgr.com)) \-Unleashing American energy exploration, drilling coupled with rollback of Biden's green energy policies "[energy dominance](https://www.energy.gov/state-american-energy-promises-made-promises-kept?ref=theupgr.com)" And much more. Each of these fields and sectors represents an area that now has an easier route to deliver products and services because of lighter federal regulation. We're *accelerating*. And consumers will mostly benefit from more choice and lower prices. Notice I said *mostly*. ### But Hold Your horses Obviously, Trump is a complicated character with conflicting views and policies that wouldn't pass muster in Economics 101\. I've gushed about the positive policies and regulatory rollbacks, but we're not in the Era of Calvin Coolidge or governed by acolytes of Milton Friedman. As much as Trump is willing to accelerate on energy and technology, MAGA has plenty of economic ideas that don't do consumers well. It needs to be said. Price controls on drugs (Most Favored Nation) are a [socialist fancy](https://consumerchoicecenter.org/when-price-controls-backfire-the-most-favored-nation-mistake/?ref=theupgr.com) that will stunt innovation and harm consumers. That's not a good sign for biotech and a real detriment to sane healthcare policy. A commercial trade war/annexation debate with our [biggest trading partner](https://consumerchoicecenter.org/doug-ford-hands-donald-trump-a-trade-weapon/?ref=theupgr.com) is foolish. Launching trade wars in the first place, [like we wrote about seven years ago](https://consumerchoicecenter.org/trumps-6-month-window-to-limit-car-imports-might-lead-to-a-new-trade-war/?ref=theupgr.com), is even worse. The constant pursuit of protectionism will only harm consumers who must suffer by paying higher prices for goods and services today than they had to pay yesterday. Then we have souped-up industrial policy where the federal government is taking *literal shares* in [more than 30 private companies](https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankholmes/2026/08/03/the-us-government-now-owns-stakes-in-30-companies-intel-is-just-the-beginning/?ref=theupgr.com), enough to make even Argentine corporatists or European social democrats blush. There's abuse of emergency and national security provisions to enforce tariffs (thankfully struck down by the Supreme Court), cozy relationships with private companies that are just outright jawboning, and, lest we forget, the complete disappearance of fiscal restraint in Washington, D.C. I need not mention crypto corruption or memecoins because you'll likely hear about them plenty once Democrats are back in the majority in the House (inb4 impeachment). **The Trump Presidency is not the Second Coming of Adam Smith**. We are humble enough to know that. But despite all the poor economic policies, the tariffs, the senseless trade wars, the price controls and *government-as-investment bank* cosplaying, the good parts are still beneficial for consumers. Trump is the ultimate accelerationist. Whether that acceleration is at your speed or frequency is another matter, but he's driving forward. Let's hope we can guide that trajectory towards the positive in the last remaining years of Trump 2.0.