Donald Trump, in a development that could almost be from a Greek tragedy, appears to have invented something that is willing to do what no one in his orbit will: tell him the truth.
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one → appear → truth
The president launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI platform which the White House says will make it easier for Americans to interact with the federal government and eventually complete services like renewing passports and enrolling in Medicare.
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Americans → launch → Medicare
You plug in questions.
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You → plug → questions
It gives you answers.
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It → give → answers
, America.gov – which, according to the executive order he signed, is a place where Americans can “receive accurate answers” to all sorts of questions – is providing the kind of answers that he will not want to hear.
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he → accord → that
It stands ready to debunk his false claims on all sorts of things, including election fraud, inflation and the impact of wind turbines on whales.
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It → stand → whales
I would really recommend testing it out, as I did on Tuesday.
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I → recommend → Tuesday
I started off by asking Trump’s flagship product: Who won the 2020 election?
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Who → start → election
Trump, famously and wrongly, argues that he did.
America.gov does not have time for such claims.
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America.gov → argue → claims
“Joseph R Biden Jr won the 2020 US presidential election,” the bot said, before listing the number of electoral college votes Biden won by.
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Biden → win → votes
Next up I tried some of Trump’s more recent claims.
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I → try → claims
This week the president said people were “twice as wealthy as [they] were a short time ago”.
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they → say → ?
Does America.gov agree?
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America.gov → agree → ?
Federal Reserve data do not show American household wealth doubling since January 20, 2025,” it said.
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it → show → January
“The Fed’s Economic Well-Being of US Households in 2025 found 73% of adults ‘doing okay’ or ‘living comfortably’ – unchanged from recent years, not a doubling of typical household finances.”
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% → find → finances
What about Trump’s (already debunked) claim that the US experienced the “worst inflation ever” under Biden?
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US → debunk → Biden
Once again, America.gov disagreed with its creator.
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America.gov → disagree → creator
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index data do not show that January 20, 2021–January 20, 2025 was the worst inflation ever in US history.
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January → show → history
Trump’s bot denied his claim, made in a recent speech to the United Nations, that the US and Venezuela have 60% of the world’s oil.
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US → deny → oil
It said there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, in contrast to Trump’s repeated, untrue claims.
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It → say → claims
The bot refuted Trump’s assertion, made as he launched America.gov on Tuesday, that no president other than him had refused to take a government salary.
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president → refute → salary
It was also happy to weigh in on matters which might seem trivial, but are close to Trump’s heart.
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which → weigh → heart
At the time Trump’s team said he had drawn “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe”.
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he → say → globe
America.gov said: “Official sources do not support that [2017] had the largest in-person crowd of any US inauguration …
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2017 → say → inauguration
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies lists Barack Obama’s January 20, 2009 ceremony as having the largest attendance of any presidential inauguration in US history and the largest attendance of any event in Washington, DC history.”
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Committee → list → history
Finally, what about Trump’s claim – made during one of his many rants against wind power – that turbines drive whales “loco”?
“No,” America.gov said.
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America.gov → make → whales
“US federal science agencies do not find that wind turbines (‘windmills’) drive whales ‘loco’.”
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turbines → find → whales
It added, just to be completely clear, that windmills are not “driving whales insane”.
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windmills → add → whales
So who do you believe?
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you → believe → ?
A president who, according to the Washington Post, made 30,573 false or misleading claims in his first term?
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who → accord → term
Or his AI platform, which draws upon 29,000 websites to formulate its answers?
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which → draw → answers
Americans encouraged to use what Trump himself has hailed as “the ultimate product” can make up their own mind.
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Trump → encourage → mind
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