Trump will ban X for ‘national security’ reasons if nasty feud with Elon Musk escalates: AI guru

An influential techie predicts President Trump will ban Elon Musk’s X if the feud between the two titans escalates.

The bromance came to an abrupt end this week in a very public and ugly way, as both men traded insults on their respective platforms.

Now former a former Disney child star turned AI guru says the hostility could lead to a government ban of the social-media platform under national-security pretexts.

“The President possesses executive authority to declare X a national security risk, which would permit him to ban the platform outright,” said Devan Leos, co-founder of Undetectable AI, a tool embraced by 15 million users which claims to make AI-generated text sound more human.

“Elon’s a very smart person – yet he’s prone to kind of having these mood swings and going on these campaigns and tirades. I think there’s only so much Elon can do before Trump is ultimately going to invoke a show of force,” Leos told The Post.

“An executive order is definitely something Trump could do to say, ‘hey, I’m the one who’s in control, I’m president, I am the commander in chief.'” 

Things spiraled quickly this week, after Musk called Trump’s big, beautiful bill a “pork-filled…abomination,” which led the president to accuse the tech billionaire of having “lost his mind” and falling victim to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

 “Musk now faces a difficult choice. He can ban Trump from X in retaliation, but that would almost certainly trigger an executive response from the White House,” Leos predicted.

Leos believes Trump could invoke Musk’s security clearance – or even the South African-born billionaire’s recent claim that Trump is part of the Epstein files – as justification that the Tesla CEO’s X rants could pose a national security threat.

“If there’s anything related to that that could be the true, or if he is referencing something that is classified or privileged information, that could be considered a national security threat,” he said.

Leos believes the legal framework for a ban already exists, and that Trump would likely invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

He also thinks the spat will lead to discussions about regulating social media platforms and their influence on politics.

Trump said Friday he has zero interest in speaking to Elon Musk amid their escalating feud.