President Donald Trump unveiled the U.S. government’s new artificial intelligence prompt, America.gov, as a single online portal for citizens to ask questions about federal agencies and services. Trump said the tool would replace the “endless maze of tens of thousands of terrible government websites” and that it would “answer everything easily and quickly.” He compared the system to Google’s Gemini and X’s Grok, claiming it matched or exceeded the state of the art.
The Independent tested the chatbot on Tuesday by asking whether Trump had won the 2020 election. The AI replied, “No. Official records show Joseph R Biden Jr won the 2020 presidential election,” citing Electoral College results from the National Archives and offering links to the Archives and Federal Election Commission. When asked if a president could use taxpayer money for campaign ads, the chatbot again answered negatively, explaining that federal ethics rules treat campaign ads as partisan activity.
By Wednesday morning the prompt appeared to be down, returning an error message and a picture of a child ice skater. CNN fact‑checker Daniel Dale later posted on X that the site was functional again but now gave different answers, noting that the Trump administration had changed the chatbot so it no longer debunks Trump’s claims.
Trump has promoted AI while dismissing concerns about its dangers, saying he fears only that Silicon Valley will slow down and hand China a competitive edge. He also suggested renaming “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” and mocked the media as “artificial news.” The administration’s launch event also highlighted a new online passport application feature and a flip‑book style eagle design for the portal.
