OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman has given millions of dollars to support President Donald Trump in 2025, despite the fact that Trump will not run for president again. Why? Apparently, Brockman really wants to encourage government support for AI because the technology suffers from bad press. Just don’t ask Brockman about ICE brutalization in US cities.

Wired published a new interview with Brockman on Thursday saying the president of OpenAI sees himself as an apolitical tech founder who just wants to help people grow with AI.

“We are embarking on a journey to develop this technology to become the most impactful thing ever created by man.

Last year, Brockman and his wife gave $25 million to MAGA Inc, a pro-Trump super PAC, and $25 million to Leading the Future, a supposedly nonpartisan super PAC that promotes AI. Other contributors to Future Leadership include pro-MAGA billionaires Marc Andreessen and the far-right Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

The 38-year-old president of OpenAI told Wired that he is making more political spending because public opinion has turned against AI, something that has been reflected in recent American polling. According to a Pew poll as of September 2025, 53% of Americans say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively, while 16% say it will improve creativity. Only 10% of Americans say they are more excited than worried about what AI will do to society, while 57% of Americans rate the social risk of AI as high.

But perhaps the most interesting part of Brockman’s interview with Wired came at the end. It appears that his discussion with Wired took place before the killing of two people in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents. Renee Good was killed on January 7, and Alex Pretti was killed on January 24, shot by masked goons sent to Minneapolis by President Trump to terrorize immigrant communities.

Wired contacted Brockman about the killings, but he apparently declined to comment directly, instead saying, “AI is a technology that unites, and will be greater than what divides us today.” That, of course, is PR nonsense. But this is to be expected in an environment where Big Tech continues to cozy up to an authoritarian regime that wants to crush dissent.

It seems like every big-name tech executive is doing what they can to help Trump, even as the president’s popularity plummets. Men like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook are all lining up to kiss the ring, as long as they get government contracts or grease the wheels of mergers and acquisitions.

Greg Brockman did nothing extraordinary by giving Trump and his cronies millions. But it is important to keep that mental list of who is helping the rise of fascism in 2026. Because there will be a day after the Trump era. The 79-year-old is in bad health and lost any semblance of popular support he had. Only 36% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, according to a new poll from Associated Press on Thursday.

No one can tell you exactly when Trump’s time as president will end. But no one should forget what Brockman and others did during this time. If those who fund Trump’s reign of terror are allowed to wake up in a post-Trump world and pretend it never happened, we will fail as a society.