Fact Check: Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Executive Order DID Misspell Country's Name As 'Unites States'

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  • by: Uliana Malashenko
Fact Check: Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Executive Order DID Misspell Country's Name As 'Unites States' Real Error

Was the name of the U.S. actually misspelled in Donald Trump's "super intelligence" executive order as "Unites States"? Yes, that's true: The image confirming that was shared not only by social media users but by Trump himself. The error received media coverage.

The statement appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by the @FurkanGozukara account on Sept. 29, 2026. It opened:

Superintelligence community has a spelling error 🤣

This is what the image shared in the post looked like on X at the time of writing:

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(Image source: post by @FurkanGozukara on X.)

Here is a close-up from the above picture showing the spelling mistake under the president's signature:

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(Image source: post by @FurkanGozukara on X.)

Both the image and the spelling error were real.

Trump signed (archived here) an executive order to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" on Sept. 29, 2026, and the same image as in the post reviewed in this fact check was published (archived here and here) on his account on Truth Social on the same day. It contained the same mistake (click to view larger):

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(Image source: post by @realDonaldTrump on Truth Social.)

The existence of the spelling error in the executive order was covered by the media, as seen, for example, here and here (archived here and here).

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  Uliana Malashenko

Uliana Malashenko joined Lead Stories as a freelance fact checking reporter in March 2022. Since then, she has investigated viral claims about U.S. elections and international conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, among many other things. Before Lead Stories she spent over a decade working in broadcast and digital journalism, specializing in covering breaking news and politics. She is based in New York.

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