Trump’s AI push sparks MAGA revolt ahead of midterms
February 23, 2026
On a cold Tuesday evening this month, about 200 Missourians crammed into a Methodist church to share a message: the AI revolution embraced by Donald Trump’s White House did not have their unqualified support.
“I voted for this administration and didn’t really think about [AI] until it started to affect me,” said Lisa Garrett, who lives beside the site of a rapidly greenlit $US6.6 billion ($9.3 billion), 162-hectare data centre development in the satellite city of Independence, just east of Kansas City.
