In the long history of nations shaping reality through the words they choose, the Trump administration has instructed American diplomats to retire the term 'artificial intelligence' in favor of 'super intelligence' — a quiet but deliberate act of linguistic statecraft. The State Department directive, flowing from the president himself, reflects a belief that language is not merely descriptive but constitutive: that what a nation calls its power shapes how that power is perceived. In diplomatic halls where technology policy is increasingly the terrain of great-power competition, the United Stat