Washington DC - President Donald Trump, who recently demanded the term "super intelligence" to replace artificial intelligence, said Thursday that anyone who does not heed his wishes will be treated as "THE ENEMY," without saying what the consequences would be.

"The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY!" Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Trump first proposed the name change in a speech before the UN General Assembly last month, saying his new term "sounds much better."

Then in late September, Trump signed an executive order, imposing the use of "super intelligence" across the US government.

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That same obligation does not affect the private sector, but some there are already adopting it, including Mark Zuckerberg's Meta group.

Trump ally Elon Musk is using "super intelligence" in his posts on his X network.

The semantic debate is primarily a political one: Trump, who has stridently defended the use of AI, is trying to put a positive spin on it in the face of mounting worries about AI security, and anger over the proliferation of data centers in the US.

Trump is also a fan of renaming things or creating nicknames - in his second term, he has unofficially renamed the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" and did the same for Lake Ontario, changing it to "Lake America."