US President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to joke about wanting to return to the White House, telling a crowd at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington that he 'would like to be the next president' as he unveiled a major expansion of his administration's plan to shield households from utility price hikes linked to the rapid AI energy boom.
The off-the-cuff remark came as he announced a nationwide extension of his administration's key initiative designed to prevent the costs of powering new artificial intelligence data centres being passed on to consumers.
