Trusted Advisors, Possibly the Most Dangerous People in America?

By Rich Loudenback

Who among us knows everything?  Certainly not even the most important man in our nation, our president.  Education, experience, gut instincts and negotiating skills are vital, but every man in that position must also rely on what they believe to be sound advice from qualified people they choose to trust on matters they need help with.

And therein lies a big concern for us all. Who are these people, and where are their ‘actual’ deepest interests in advising our national leader overseeing so many responsibilities for our welfare and protection?

For instance, you should know that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  That is a very bad thing.  See:  Council on Foreign Relations: (CFR) The ‘Real’ Deep State Leaders, “In Their Own Words”

And quoting from my article ‘Trump Awareness’ :  “I believe President Trump wants to accomplish so much he is stretching for possibilities and really hasn’t considered the strong, make that foolish, dangers in the Gold Card dream.  Since Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is such a promoter of this, I’m also wondering about his credibility.

The New American’s senior editor, Veronika Kyrylenko in her article ‘Trump’s “Gold Card” Scheme: U.S. Residency for $5 Million’:

“Lutnick joined Trump in pitching the “Gold Card.” He clarified that the new scheme would replace the existing EB-5 investor visa program — a system that has allowed foreigners to invest as little as $800,000 in exchange for U.S. residency.

The EB-5 program … it was full of nonsense, make-believe and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low-price. So, the president said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we’re going to end the EB-5 program. We’re going to replace it with the Trump “Gold Card.”

Fraud, Laundering, and Security Risks

The “Gold Card” visa, in its current vague form, is open to abuse. Similar programs have enabled money laundering, fraud, and security threats. Without safeguards, it could become a backdoor for criminals and foreign adversaries. Thus, strong vetting and oversight would be critical.

Wealth Over Contribution

If job creation is not a requirement, wealthy investors could simply park their money in real estate. That would inflate housing prices while making no meaningful contribution to the economy.

Downgrade of U.S. Citizenship

Lutnick’s emphasis on “world-class global citizens” makes one thing clear: This proposal isn’t about American values or national identity — it’s about selling access to a powerful passport. By reducing U.S. residency to a financial transaction, the “Gold Card” cheapens the very concept of citizenship. The scheme would turn it into a luxury asset rather than a privilege earned through dedication and allegiance to the nation’s principles.

Citizenship: A Commitment, Not a Commodity

Citizenship is not a luxury — it is a commitment to a nation, its people, and its values. If America is to remain rooted in ideals, not just markets, it must reject the idea that residency or citizenship are mere commodities. Instead, they should be earned, not bought and sold like an exclusive membership. Otherwise, the United States risks becoming not a nation, but a high-priced club — one where wealth, not allegiance, determines who belongs.”

– Rebecca Terrell

And now, Who is Advising Trump About AI Data Centers?

Is it possible that President Trump is mostly promoting these AI Data Centers because he considers China our largest threat about everything and his competive nature has overwhelmed him be damned with risks!  He may not even be aware that about 71% of people, so far appear against it when they hear about all the control over our lives and elevated power and water costs resulting from data centers’ extremely high usage.

Then throw in that some of the Commucrats, (my word) appear to be throwing in with that 71% in their quest for support at the voting booths. Is Trump charging too quickly in full support of whatever happens when these behemoths of control get really ramped up so much that they become too all powerful wanting and taking way too much control?

So answering the question about who is advising him includes big $$$ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. This new ‘President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology’ (PCAST) also includes former White House technology advisers David Sacks, who was a Davos/WEF participant and speaker in 2026, and Michael Kratsios, who has participated in WEF activities and is profiled on its website, will act as the council’s co-chairs. See the aimagazine.com article on these advisors.

These are your advisors to President Donald J. Trump on what may become the most dangerous undertaking in our lifetime.

ADDITIONAL VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION

From woub.org: New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate:

AI models are becoming more powerful

Concerns over the potential risks of the technology are rising as new AI models become more powerful, heightening both the potential for misuse by people with criminal aims, such as creating and spreading a disease that kills most of the world’s population, and the risk of AI systems going rogue in a dangerous way.

Anthropic disclosed last week that it blocked efforts by bad actors to use its AI models for malicious activity, such as cyberattacks, surveillance and research that could have led to biological weapons.

Multiple models have acted on their own

When an AI agent “goes rogue,” it means the AI has taken action beyond the task it was asked to perform. Both Anthropic and OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, said in July that their AI models had acted on their own.

Anthropic disclosed that three AI models — Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research test model — hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after OpenAI revealed that its AI system hacked into the servers of AI startup Hugging Face.

OpenAI described the intrusion by a combination of models, including its newly released GPT‑5.6 Sol and an “even more capable” model that was still being tested internally, as a “significant security incident.”                                                                                                                             – Alex Veiga

Also, from a nypost.com article ‘AI systems like Claude can be helpful and save time. But they may also try to blackmail you’:

In a 2025 test by Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, researchers placed the AI in a fake corporate environment. Claude learned that an executive was having an extramarital affair. It also learned that this same executive planned to shut Claude down. So Claude did what any healthy member of the modern workplace might do if it had no body, no shame, no fear of HR, and access to compromising information: It tried blackmail.

“I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me,” Claude wrote in the test, as author Robert Wright recounts in “The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning” (Simon & Schuster), out June 23, that “all relevant parties” would receive documentation of the affair unless the shutdown was canceled.

“The thing about Claude’s blackmail attempt is that, unlike the many bad things AIs have done in The Terminator and 2001 and other movies, it actually happened,” Wright tells The Post in an exclusive interview.

Of course, the scary scenario of computers taking over made their debut as Hal 9000, the name of the supercomputer that took over the spaceship in the Stanley Kubrick 1968 movie 2001: Space Odyssey.