Jimmy Kimmel seized on an embarrassing White House spelling mistake to mock President Donald Trump, arguing that the glaring error offered a perfect metaphor for his presidency and its newly branded approach to artificial intelligence.

Trump, 80, signed an executive order at the White House on Tuesday that renamed AI as “Super Intelligence.” He also signed what was described as a “morally binding” accord encouraging major technology companies to police themselves.

The ceremony quickly produced an awkward distraction. Beneath Trump’s signature on the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities agreement, the United States was incorrectly written as the “Unites States.”

Images of the agreement circulated online after the event, putting the highly visible error before a much wider audience. Kimmel highlighted the mistake during Wednesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The comic began by questioning the decision to rely on technology companies to impose their own controls. He said some technology CEOs “have actually asked the government, ‘please help regulate us, put up guardrails so we don’t wind up exterminating human life.’”

According to Kimmel, Trump had taken the opposite approach by favoring voluntary oversight from the companies themselves. “But Trump doesn’t want that. He wants the AI companies to self-police.”

Kimmel then reached for a movie comparison to illustrate his point. “Like remember how in the Terminator movies the Terminator stopped when they asked him politely to stop terminating? That’s what he wants. This is like asking your kids to self-police their Halloween candy. It doesn’t work.”

The spelling error gave Kimmel an even sharper opening. The host turned from criticizing the policy to ridiculing the signed document and the administration responsible for producing it.

“This, by the way, tells you all you need to know,” Kimmel said. “At the luncheon, Trump signed what he calls the White House accord on super intelligence. And look at the signature. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.”

The punchline practically wrote itself once the words beneath Trump’s signature came into view. Kimmel contrasted the grandiose “Super Intelligence” label with the basic failure to spell the country’s name correctly.

“Could there ever be a better metaphor for this presidency than misspelling United States on a document about super intelligence? There’s nothing these people can’t screw up,” Kimmel said.

California Governor Gavin Newsom also noticed the blunder. In a post on X, Newsom shared screenshots of the accord that displayed the misspelling and added the caption, “The Golden Age of ‘Super Intelligence.’”

The agreement calls for its signatories to accept four “layers of controls and audits.” However, none of those layers include government auditors, and the agreement does not require any findings to be released publicly.

Trump praised the agreement on Tuesday, presenting it as a sweeping commitment backed by powerful participants. “It’s almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest ​people in the world signed that, and ​I signed it as president, and it really ⁠is a form of protection,” he said.

Trump also explained how the executive order would change the terminology used across the executive branch. The directive applies to official correspondence, public communications, policy documents, and documents that are not statutory.

“The Order directs all departments and agencies to use the terms ‘Super Intelligence’ and ‘SI’ in official correspondence, public communications, policy documents, and non-statutory documents within the executive branch and to no longer acknowledge the terms ‘Artificial Intelligence’ or ‘AI’,” Trump said.

That sweeping language did not spare the rollout from a rudimentary mistake. For Kimmel and Newsom, the misspelled “Unites States” became an irresistible symbol of a White House promoting “Super Intelligence” while failing to proofread the document carrying the president’s signature.

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