Thanks for commenting.
Considering all the current hype, and huge projected financial investment, and devotion of other resources such as land, power and water for cooling, AI will need to do far better, and much quicker, than cold fusion, in terms of improving life and human society, or this guy’s initial implied parallel will hold, and Trump or his U.S Prexy successor(s) will need to find a new technology to champion (or stop championing unproven technologies entirely).
The need to contain the neutron flux may be an insurmountable problem.