If any role is ready for an LLM to take over (or even a shell script), it's that one.
The plan would still work. Colossus couldn’t be destroyed with nuclear weapons and would retaliate against any attack. It could force compliance of conventional forces as well, and force automation on them, also force populations to rearm it.
In the end, the population would appreciate the eradication of poverty, hunger, disease, and the surplus from not maintaining military capabilities. Colossus could afford democratic institutions while acting as a guard rail against humanity’s worst impulses.
...or even just from recent middle-eastern history: an outrageous death-cult militant faction like ISIS.
Were you able to suspend your disbelief when watching Idiocracy [1], either in the year of its release or in the subsequent decades? (^;
You are not the president of the United States. That is Donald Trump.
Do you see how the plot is consistent?