AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

I mean, in what other way would he do it, than the single dumbest way imaginable?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/ai-industry-says-trump-plans-to-tax-chips-in-the-single-dumbest-way-imaginable/

Trump shitting on the AI industry has a certain poetry about it