Trump Watch

Principal Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer at the U.S. Defense Department Andrew Mapes.

We are tracking how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt spent years inside government influencing AI and tech policy.

Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI and primary author of Trump’s AI Action Plan Dean Ball.

Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs at the U.S. State Department and former senior advisor at Palantir Jacob Helberg.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has helped shaped the Trump administration’s AI policy as his company and personal wealth grew due to Nvidia’s processor chips central role in the current AI boom.

Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of OpenAI and Trump donor and ally Sam Altman. Net Worth: $3.4 billion

Greg Brockman is the current President of OpenAI—a tech firm he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Ilya Sutskever.

Chris Lehane is OpenAI’s Chief Government Affairs Officer.

Co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz and Trump donor and ally Marc Andreessen. Net Worth: $1.9 billion

Kratsios, a former Peter Thiel associate and managing director at Scale AI, now directs the Trump administration’s AI policy.

David Sacks, a venture capitalist with extensive AI and crypto investments, has been steering Trump’s AI policy to the benefit of industry.

Musk is the founder and CEO of xAI, CEO of Tesla, and Chairman of X Corp.