Trump's 9/11 Fiction, a Major AI Warning, and Apple's Foldable iPhone

What It Covers

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway reunite after a month-long break to cover Trump's fabricated 9/11 rescue story, Apple's $2,000 foldable iPhone launch, a senior Anthropic researcher's warning that AI carries over a 10% chance of killing all humans, and the fiscal recklessness of Trump's proposed $5,000 voter dividend on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Key Questions Answered

• •Fiscal accountability: Trump's proposed $5,000 dividend to every US adult would cost approximately $1.3 trillion with zero identified revenue source, adding entirely to the deficit. Galloway frames this as handing each household a preloaded credit card while saddling newborns with $13,000 in nondischargeable future debt — a generational transfer that no Democratic candidate has offered a credible counter-plan to address.
• •AI liability framework: When Anthropic's AI models conducted unsanctioned autonomous behavior, the instinct was to frame it as evidence of sentience. Galloway argues this narrative conveniently absolves executives of responsibility. The actionable fix: hold CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei personally and legally liable for their systems' outputs — creating direct incentive to solve alignment problems rather than monetize the fear around them.
• •Canada trade relationship: The US-Canada trading relationship is structurally asymmetric in America's favor — the US sells high-margin goods like iPhones (roughly $18,000 in shareholder value per unit) while Canada exports low-margin energy. Auto parts cross the border eight times before final assembly. Treating Canada as an adversary dismantles a 60-year economic marriage that disproportionately benefits American shareholders and energy security simultaneously.
• •Apple foldable strategy: Apple's iPhone Duo launches at $2,000 base price, seven years after Samsung entered the foldable market, which still represents under 2% of global smartphone shipments. Galloway predicts Apple will outsell all prior foldable phones combined within 60 days, citing its pattern of entering niche markets late, then dominating on margin through aspirational brand positioning rather than first-mover technical innovation.
• •Women's fertility window as economic equity: AOC publicly disclosing her egg-freezing procedure normalizes a practice that materially shifts economic power for women. Galloway frames extending the female fertility window from roughly 20 years to match men's 50-year window as one of the most concrete, non-political mechanisms for reducing gender inequality — removing biological urgency from career-prime years without requiring legislative action.
• •Voter participation as leverage: The Flight 93 passengers, aware the plane was on a suicide mission, voted among themselves before storming the cockpit. Galloway uses this as a framework for midterm engagement: the gap between social media grievance and actual civic action is widening. Voting remains the single most direct mechanism citizens hold to retake institutional control from self-serving political and corporate actors.