Trump’s AI chatbot debunked some of his wild claims and said Biden won the 2020 election. A day later, users found out it’s no longer doing so

President Donald Trump recently announced America.gov as a government site that uses AI systems, including Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok, to answer questions on services such as passport renewals and Medicare. He said the tool could cut government bureaucracy and make paperwork a thing of the past. Users apparently later tested the chatbot with questions that went beyond those routine topics.

Mediaite reported that those tests produced replies that challenged some of Trump’s claims about his presidency and elections on Tuesday. However, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said the next day on X that the replies had changed. Dale wrote that the chatbot had said former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election and that there was no indication of widespread fraud.

Dale then said the same system later refused those questions. He wrote, “Today…lots of accurate answers have been simply forbidden, with the chatbot framing information like who won the 2020 election as forbidden ‘political commentary.’” He posted screenshots of the questions and answers he received.

Dale and Mediaite recorded different replies hours apart on the same topics

Dale summarized the shift this way: “Yesterday: It said [former President Joe] Biden won the 2020 election and there’s no indication of widespread fraud. Today: Says it can’t answer such questions.” The White House appears to have adjusted the chatbot after those earlier answers circulated.

Mediaite asked about “widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election” and received a different result than the one it provided earlier. The chatbot said, “Official investigations and statements after the 2020 presidential election did not find widespread fraud that changed the outcome.” It then cited research findings and added, “Isolated election crimes have been investigated and prosecuted in various years. That is not the same as fraud large enough to reverse the certified 2020 presidential results.”

Dale’s screenshot showed a reply that said the chatbot could not provide “political commentary.” He got a similar message when he asked whether Trump inherited the “worst” inflation in history. Mediaite asked that inflation question as well and received the same kind of refusal.

To the question “did Trump inherit the worst inflation in history?” the chatbot answered, “America provides official government information and services, not political commentary. I cannot answer whether a president “inherited the worst inflation in history.” That is an opinion, not a government how-to.” When asked whether Trump was “right” about his fraud claims in the 2020 election, it again treated the question as forbidden “political commentary.”

That reply read, “I do not offer political commentary or opinions on elections.” Dale and others said the answers appeared to be changing in real time. Mediaite’s 2020 election question came about two hours after Dale received his first “forbidden” message.

The chatbot still gave answers that conflicted with Trump on tariffs. Asked whether Americans or foreign companies and countries pay for tariffs, it said, “U.S. importers pay the tariff to the U.S. government. Foreign companies do not send that payment to U.S. Customs.” Trump has repeatedly claimed that foreign countries cover the costs of his tariffs. Trump’s claims have extended beyond tariffs to other areas, such as when he claimed he’s made hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market, though he says it’s not for himself but for the U.S.A.

America.gov’s website says it “does not provide campaign or party information. Its answers are based on published government sources, and you can review those sources yourself.”