WATCH LIVE: Trump holds a ‘New Golden Age Summit’ supporting science

Well, this is a better look for Washington than the usual doom loop. President Trump is hosting a “New Golden Age Summit” at the U.S. Institute of Peace, of all places, to put a spotlight on American science and technology. That's not nothing. When was the last time you saw the White House treat innovation like a national triumph instead of a problem to be regulated? Feels good, and it's long overdue.

The details matter here. Trump and tech leaders are talking about superintelligence, which sounds like science fiction but is quickly becoming real life. The administration is not just giving speeches. There's an accord coming out of the White House, a commitment to keeping American AI and discovery ahead of everyone else. That is the right instinct. The United States built the modern world on the freedom to tinker, invent, and get rich doing it. A government that honors that instead of apologizing for it is on the right side of history.

This is also a pointed message to the left. For years, the trend in progressive circles has been to treat every new breakthrough with suspicion, if not outright fear. They want to form committees, write impact statements, and slow things down until startups move to Singapore or give up entirely. Trump is choosing the opposite track: celebrating the dreamers, the builders, the risk-takers. That is an America First policy, even when the science has no border. If we lead, everyone benefits. If we hesitate, someone else will take the lead.

None of this means every advance will be perfect or safe. But the summit's message is clear: America should be the place where the next big thing comes from, not the place that watches it get built elsewhere. We have seen enough hand-wringing to last a lifetime. Give the inventors a stage, not a subpoena. That's how you get a new golden age, and it's refreshing to have a president who actually believes it.