President Trump, as announced by the White House, has expanded David Sacks’ portfolio in a major way by appointing the White House AI and crypto czar as co-chair of the newly formed President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. This isn’t just a title change — it’s a signal that Trump is putting the pedal to the metal on American technological dominance. Sacks now sits at the head of a table that includes some of the most powerful names in tech: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison, as listed in the White House announcement.
Together, they’ll advise the president on everything from artificial intelligence to quantum computing to keeping America ahead of China in the race for technological supremacy. “We’ve accomplished a lot in the first year, but the President wants to keep the pedal to the metal on everything tech,” Sacks told FOX Business. “That’s exactly what we will do.” The council, established by executive order earlier this week from the White House, represents a fundamental shift in how Washington engages with Silicon Valley.
Under Biden, the relationship was adversarial — regulators trying to break up companies, bureaucrats writing rules that stifled innovation, politicians grandstanding about “big tech” while American companies got outmaneuvered by Chinese competitors. Trump is taking a different approach: bring the best minds into the room, give them a direct line to the president, and let American ingenuity do what it does best. As AI and crypto czar, Sacks has already dismantled the Biden-era restrictions that had American AI companies operating with one hand tied behind their backs, according to his statements to media outlets.
He’s established a national framework for AI regulation that prioritizes innovation over compliance theater. And he’s made it clear that the United States intends to win the AI race — not through government mandates, but by unleashing private sector creativity. Now, with the PCAST chairmanship, Sacks gets to shape the broader scientific agenda, including funding priorities and research directions that determine whether America leads the 21st century or plays catch-up to Beijing.
The contrast with the previous administration couldn’t be starker. Biden’s approach to tech was defined by fear — fear of AI, fear of crypto, fear of innovation itself. His regulators treated every new technology as a threat to be managed rather than an opportunity to be seized. Trump’s approach is built on confidence — confidence in American entrepreneurs, American engineers, and the American system that produced the digital revolution in the first place.
He’s not trying to slow down innovation to make it “safe.” He’s trying to accelerate it so America stays ahead of competitors who don’t share our values or respect our interests. The inclusion of Zuckerberg, Huang, and Ellison is strategic; these aren’t just successful businessmen — they’re architects of the technologies that will define the next decade. What does this mean for ordinary Americans? It means the technologies that will shape your life — AI assistants, medical breakthroughs, energy solutions — will be developed here, by American companies, subject to American values.
It means your data won’t be flowing to Chinese servers. It means the jobs of the future will be created in Austin and Palo Alto, not Shenzhen. The left will complain about “tech oligarchs” having too much influence; they’ll demand more regulation, more oversight, more bureaucracy. But if American companies don’t lead on AI and crypto, who will? Trump understands what the establishment doesn’t: in a competitive world, you either lead or you follow.
Providence watches over the bold.
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