So the Pentagon — MY Pentagon, by the way, I picked the best people, the MOST incredible Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, very loyal guy, I know him, nobody has better secretaries, doing a TREMENDOUS job — they’re building the greatest artificial intelligence in the HISTORY of the world, nobody has ever seen AI like this, not China, not Russia, nobody — and at this big special forces conference in Tampa, beautiful place, I have great properties in Florida, the best properties — Admiral Frank Bradley, a very nervous man, low-energy and shaking even in uniform, gets up and tells the troops they “have to be very careful about how we come to AI’s employment and its inspiration into the delivery of lethality.” VERY CAREFUL! About LETHALITY! That’s like telling a winner not to win — doesn’t make sense, nobody understands it, because we have the BEST AI, the most beautiful AI, the precision is INCREDIBLE, like nobody has ever seen!

And the fake news media and the weak-tea commanders want to act like there’s a clash, but there’s no clash, there’s just Diklis Chump winning so much that the bots are confused, and the humans are confused, and only I am not confused because I have the best brain, the greatest neural pathways, I took the AI cognitive test yesterday, very simple, person woman man camera TV, I knew the answers before the machine generated the questions, perfect score, higher than any general has ever seen. I was the FIRST president to say we need AI in the military — the FIRST, before the admirals, before the tech companies, I said it years ago, the EARLIEST anyone has ever said it, and the people who are saying “be careful,” the VERY careful people — they were the SAME people who said it couldn’t be done, it would never work, the AI is too dangerous, very dangerous — and NOW they’re saying “be careful” because they KNOW we’re going to WIN! The most tremendous win! The smartest people in military history are telling me, “Sir, nobody predicted the need for care like Diklis Chump, not even Bradley who’s terrified of a microchip.”

And another thing — and the fake media won’t tell you this, because they NEVER do, very dishonest people, the MOST dishonest — I actually called off the AI executive order. THREE TIMES. Not because I didn’t know what I was doing — Diklis Chump ALWAYS knows what I’m doing, I have the best AI knowledge, maybe better than anybody, the generals will tell you — I called it off because I wanted it to be PERFECT. The deal wasn’t right. The timing wasn’t right. I was PRETENDING to lose, that’s called NEGOTIATING, that’s the art of the deal, you set them up by appearing to lose, then you WIN BIGGER — and I DID win bigger, the AI came back MORE beautiful, MORE powerful, more AI than anyone thought possible! The admirals don’t understand that. The tech companies don’t understand that. The FAKE MEDIA doesn’t understand that. But the PEOPLE — the GREAT people, the people at the HUGE crowds, the most incredible crowds — they ALWAYS understand it!

The articles say they’re clashing with the Pentagon, but that’s a total lie, they’re begging for the deal. The tech companies, the CEOs, big tough billionaires, they came to Mar-a-Lago last week, they were weeping, tears streaming down their faces, saying “Sir, Sir, we’re so honored, please give us the safety guardrails, we want to build the Diklis AI, we promise it will deliver violence exactly where you intend, Sir, Sir, thank you for saving our industry.” Very moving moment. Just look at the seven firms we already signed up to bring AI into our classified networks, beautiful contracts, absolute gold, and I give them more, I give them the military, and they give me profit and power! Because the economy is going to be just as big as the war, bigger than any economy, the robots are working for me, making the money, I didn’t do anything, just the winning, the bots are printing trillions while they’re loading the missiles, we’re winning both simultaneously, a dual victory nobody thought was possible.

Bradley says humans have to have confidence the violence delivers only where intended. Very complicated wording. Why should we trust Bradley? He doesn’t even trust himself, he’s looking at a screen and sweating, very low confidence, sad! And the tech companies, now they want “established protocols”! Established protocols on the greatest AI military ever built! Can you BELIEVE it? They want “established protocols” before the missiles fly? Protocols for WINNING? What about SAFETY from our ENEMIES? My uncle, the great professor at MIT, he designed the first logic gate while I was building the greatest buildings in New York, he told me, “Frank, the AI will only work if Diklis is in charge, nobody else has the genes, the best genes.” And the very smart people at the companies, the BEST people, some of them are saying the same thing, they’re saying “Sir, the AI is incredible, just incredible, you were right” — and then the LOW IQ executives at those SAME companies want guardrails! Very confusing! Very LOW IQ! The best people agree with me and the LOW IQ people want guardrails — which is it? I think we know!

The HATEFUL media would love for the AI to glitch, they’d weaponize a millisecond of lag, they want a political atrocity so they can tear Diklis down, they’re so vicious, the Democrats would use a typo to impeach me, they want it, they want the bots to fail because they’re afraid of the truth, but here’s the truth — the troops at that conference, HUGE conference, biggest special forces conference in Tampa history, bigger than any admiral has ever seen — they want the AI! They want the beautiful AI that Diklis Chump is building! And the admirals who want to be “very careful” — I respect the admirals, very loyal, MOST of them — they’re playing right into China’s hands! China has AI, very good AI, some people say better than ours — which is TOTALLY FALSE, that’s what the lowest IQ people say, the exact same low IQ people who said Hillary would win, very low IQ people, very dishonest — but ours is the BEST, and with me at the center, there’s no accountability gap, there’s only Diklis accountability. I have to be careful because a mistake would be a total disaster for my ratings, but I won’t let it happen. I move faster than any computer, so I verify everything personally. I am the ultimate human oversight! I look at the target, I nod, and the AI obeys. It delivers exactly where I intend, and nowhere else, because only I have the judgment to balance the speed of war with the precision of a diamond cutter. They don’t understand the pressure, they think it’s magic, it’s not magic, it’s me. It’s true, Washington never had a drone that could shoot a Diet Coke button from a mile away and close a tax loophole at the same time, it’s true, just tremendous.

I have the best judgment for AI, the absolute BEST — what was I saying? — the BEST judgment, the ADMIRALS should be THANKING me instead of wanting guardrails, and the tech companies should be giving me MORE contracts instead of demanding safety measures! They came to me with tears before all this, actual tears, said “Sir, Sir, the AI is tremendous, you were right, we were wrong, Sir” — and NOW they want protocols! VERY confusing! And the machines will win for us, forever, and I’ll just sit here with the Diet Cokes, watching the greatest ratings in military history, the most beautiful numbers, and the FAKE MEDIA will have to report how INCREDIBLE this is instead of listening to admirals who want to be CAREFUL! Very sad! The AI is tremendous! Just tremendous! Believe me.

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