Trump Wants Every American a Shareholder in AI. The Billion Dollar Risk On Gift For American Tax Payers Trump said Friday the White House is exploring giving the public equity stakes in the big AI labs, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, so ordinary Americans share in the windfall. Bernie Sanders wants the same thing harder: a one time 50% stock tax on the largest AI firms, shares parked in a sovereign wealth fund that pays dividends to households. When Trump and Sanders land on the same interventionist policy, pay attention. Something real is moving. Here is the part they forgot to mention on stage. 👇 ➡️ You might love them, but the companies the public would own a piece of are not printing money... they are setting it on fire! ▫️OpenAI's own documents project a $14 billion loss for 2026 alone. ▫️xAI spent $2 for every $1 of revenue last year, and the gap is widening. ▫️Anthropic is the rare one nearing a profitable quarter. So "every American gets a stake in AI" means, today, the public buying into businesses that lose billions at scale and hoping the future arrives before the cash runs out. A stake in a company torching tens of billions a year is not a sovereign wealth fund. It is a bailout wearing a nicer suit. 🔹Why this is happening, and why nobody is asking you anyway🔹 The politics are simple. 55% of Americans think AI will do them more harm than good, and every major lab is racing toward an IPO into that hostility. Handing the public a slice is how you buy permission to go public. Altman pitched a version of this to Washington back in 2025, long before Sanders made it loud. And the precedent already exists. This administration has taken equity in roughly 20 companies, Intel and IBM among them. The ownership step is done. 👉 The only open question is whether the dividends to households ever actually follow, or whether the public ends up owning the risk while the upside stays where it always does. 🔹Actionable Opinion for Wise Investors🔹 1️⃣ Watch dilution. If the government takes equity through new shares or a stock tax, existing shareholders get diluted. For the IPO wave, that is a real overhang on how these names price. 2️⃣ Watch the asymmetry. If OpenAI cuts a government deal and a rival stays out, public markets will price that difference. The lab that stays independent may command the cleaner multiple. 3️⃣ The hedge stays the same. I know I keep saying it, but still... When the state and the labs become business partners, the assets that sit outside that arrangement get more valuable, not less. Gold ( $GLD ) and Bitcoin ( $BTC ). Again (yes, even Bitcoin - don't get fooled by the fools). The pitch is that you finally get to own a piece of the future. Read the financials, and notice the piece they are offering you might look gorgeous... but still are at huge loss and probably overvaluated... until Trump make you pay for it?