Trump calls Sundar Pichai a ‘monster’; Google CEO has the perfect comeback: 'Hopefully a better tagline than I’m a...'

US President Donald Trump gave an unusual compliment to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, calling the Indian-origin executive a “monster” before turning the moment into a playful lesson in remembering his name.


The conversation took place during an interaction with reporters when Trump turned to Pichai and asked, “Sundar [Pichai], you wanna say something?”


Pichai began, “First of all, thanks—”, but Trump cut in with an unexpected introduction.

“This guy is a monster, and nobody knows him. What a great life! To be a MONSTER and not have to go through this. All you have to know is Sundar! Sundar is his name,” Trump said.

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The remark appeared to leave Pichai taking the compliment in stride. The Google CEO responded with a quick joke of his own, responding to Trump's "monster" remarks.

“Hopefully a better tagline than I’m a monster!” Pichai said, laughing.

The exchange has drawn wide attention online, with Trump’s emphatic pronunciation of “Sundarr” and Pichai’s comeback becoming the highlight of the interaction.

During the media interaction, Trump said he is satisfied with AI companies' "self policing", adding that his administration is considering creating a committee from within the AI industry for oversight.

Trump officially replaces term AI with Super Intelligence

Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order formally directing the federal government to replace the terms "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Super Intelligence" and "SI" across all executive branch operations.

The order, titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," established that the US government will not recognize or use Artificial Intelligence or AI as terminology in official settings.

It is therefore the policy of my Administration that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the executive branch shall use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting, the executive order stated.

Under the implementation guidelines set by the government, all federal executive departments and agencies are mandated to transition to the new terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in their official correspondence, public communications, digital websites, reports, and administrative policy documents.

However, the order will not retroactively alter previously issued regulations, existing government contracts, grants, or historical archival records.

The order noted that the technological capabilities engineered by American developers have far outgrown the original 70-year-old framework of "artificial intelligence."

"The capabilities of today’s frontier systems do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence. They increasingly amplify human ingenuity and unlock new forms of creativity, empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible across science, medicine, and nearly every other domain of human endeavor," the order stated, adding that the terminology used by the state must reflect these capabilities.

Under the new order on artificial intelligence, the administration temporarily applies the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence under Title 15 of the United States Code to "Super Intelligence."

Trump shares AI power lunch seating chart: Elon Musk, Huang sit closest; Pichai, Zuckerberg nearby

Trump shared the seating arrangement for his “Super Intelligence Luncheon”, bringing together some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, semiconductors and technology at the White House.

The seating chart, posted by Trump on Truth Social, placed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla, SpaceX and X chief Elon Musk immediately next to the president, with Huang seated on Trump's right and Musk on his left.

The arrangement also puts several other major technology executives close to Trump. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was placed seated two places away from the president, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also positioned nearby.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was seated on the opposite side of the table from Trump, alongside OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is representing the company at the lunch. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was not listed on the seating chart as he was attending the company's DevDay event in San Francisco.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is seated further down the table, near Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Altimeter CEO Brad Gerstner, while Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown is seated at the opposite end of the table.

AMD CEO Lisa Su, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott and Palantir CEO Alex Karp are among the other business leaders listed on the chart.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was also listed, while Palantir was represented by both Karp and CTO Shyam Sankar. The gathering also included senior US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and White House AI adviser Michael Kratsios.

The seating chart showed Trump positioned at the centre of a long table, with Vance directly opposite him and government officials interspersed among executives from technology, AI, semiconductor and investment companies.

At the meeting, Trump and leading AI companies announced a voluntary agreement covering internal controls, monitoring and independent reviews of AI systems. Companies including Meta, Google, Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI were among those associated with the accord.