In a familiar pattern, the establishment media has once again abandoned reporting on concrete facts in favor of spinning terrifying tales of future catastrophe. Their latest obsession? An "AI apocalypse" that, they breathlessly declare, threatens humanity itself within a decade. But while network anchors like NBC’s Savannah Guthrie sounded a "doomsday warning," President Donald Trump, ever the voice of common sense amidst manufactured panic, saw straight through the charade.

So much for soft-pedaling it. On the Sept. 14 "Today" show, NBC co-host Savannah Guthrie wasted no time, declaring, "Doomsday warning! The country’s leading developers of AI coming forward to call for a slowdown in the technology, saying humanity itself is at risk." She then interviewed The Atlantic magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel, who ominously stated, "Extremely worried," while recounting an AI-on-AI cyberattack that Guthrie then leveraged into talk of "apocalyptic outcomes."

This manufactured hysteria reached a fever pitch, with ABC’s "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir framing the debate like a scene from a disaster movie:

"We do begin tonight with President Trump rejecting the new and dire warnings about AI, even as three of the top AI rivals agree now that it's time to slow it down, alarmed by what they're seeing and how quickly this is all moving."

It was President Donald Trump versus the big brains, according to Muir's loaded language: "And tonight, even after that warning from a former AI researcher that there's a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans in a decade, tonight, President Trump saying the only guardrail AI needs is a high-IQ president, calling it a ‘hoax.’" The elitist sarcasm aimed at Trump was palpable, echoing a familiar media playbook.

NBC Nightly News followed suit, with anchor Tom Llamas repeating the alarmist narrative: "We begin with President Trump thundering into the debate today over AI regulation and perhaps the fate of humanity, saying that any predictions that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race are, quote, a hoax. It comes as some of the country's top AI leaders say the opposite, that the danger is real and must be regulated."

Thankfully, CBS Evening News offered a rare moment of sanity, allowing Trump’s former AI czar David Sacks to challenge the doomsaying. "I think we are in a political season right now. It feels like a panic is being ginned up. And, so, I do think that the threat here has been exaggerated," Sacks wisely observed. When a CBS reporter pressed him on Trump’s "hoax" label, Sacks unequivocally affirmed, "The hoax is that somehow we're going to be extinct as a species within a few years because of AI, and therefore we have to stop completely."

Listening to this sudden wave of panic-mongering makes it hard not to recall the endless apocalyptic predictions surrounding global warming since 1988 — prophecies the left prefers us to forget.

Take, for instance, the 1990 PBS documentary series, "Race to Save the Planet," where narrator Meryl Streep declared: "By the year 2000 — that's less than 10 years away — the earth's climate will be warmer than it's been in over 100,000 years. If we don't do something, there’ll be enormous calamities in a very short time." Yet, here we are, decades later, still standing. The leftist elites despise anyone who calls these predictions a "hoax" precisely because it exposes their insincerity, revealing a pattern of spinning doom to achieve more government control over our lives.

If we’re to believe in such convenient forecasts, it’s not a stretch to consider the conspiracy that the left, ever eager for information dominance, aims to control the burgeoning AI environment. Much like their efforts to pressure Big Tech into censoring conservative "misinformation," they might use AI to solidify their ideological grip.

On Sept. 15, on ABC’s "World News Tonight," anchor David Muir sounded like a TV news snippet from a disaster movie. "We do begin tonight with President Trump rejecting the new and dire warnings about AI, even as three of the top AI rivals agree now that it's time to slow it down, alarmed by what they're seeing and how quickly this is all moving."

For most Americans, lacking deep expertise in computer science or climatology, it's challenging to dismiss the most terrifying forecasts when the media marshals its capital-E "Experts." But in this case, the AI panic is ironically driven by the very makers of AI themselves. Does this make them more credible, or should it raise profound suspicions about their motives for wanting to "pace the frontier"?

Americans have witnessed these media trends for years, and skepticism toward wild pronouncements of impending doom – "we may all perish if we don't take a drastic course of action immediately" – is well-earned. Such narratives often feel like high-pressure sales pitches, designed to make us feel like suicidal fools if we don't submit to the "Experts." The global-warming example offers a sobering lesson in humility, or rather, the lack thereof, from the establishment.

President Trump's willingness to call out the latest media-driven panic as a "hoax" isn't just about AI; it's about holding the line against the constant stream of fear-mongering designed to strip Americans of their common sense and their freedom. It’s a testament to the America First principle: question the narrative, challenge the establishment, and trust in the wisdom of the American people over the alarm bells of self-serving elites.