Trump orders all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic

The President instructed U.S. government departments to stop using the company's products on Friday, ahead of a 5:01 p.m. deadline.

President Donald Trump departs a bill signing for cryptocurrency legislation in the East Room of the White House, on July 18, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

President Donald Trump directed all federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic on Friday, announcing the move on his Truth Social website roughly one hour before the Pentagon’s deadline for the artificial intelligence startup to lift restrictions on the military’s use of its Claude AI model.

Trump wrote that the U.S. “WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS,” and said the “Leftwing nut jobs” at Anthropic “made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of [Defense].”

The president claimed that the company’s red lines on the use of its technology to surveil U.S. citizens or empower autonomous weapons put American lives at risk, U.S. troops in danger and the country’s national security in jeopardy.

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