Trump launched a ‘damn good’ AI chatbot. It debunks many of his false claims

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President Donald Trump launched a new artificial intelligence chatbot on Tuesday, calling it “damn good.” Turns out that one of the things it’s reasonably good at is debunking Trump’s own lies.

We asked the America.gov chatbot about numerous false claims the president has made in recent months, including one he uttered at the Tuesday launch event itself. The chatbot flatly and correctly noted that many of these Trump claims are not true – including assertions he has made about elections, the economy, immigration and foreign affairs.

The chatbot is not the best tool for political fact-checking. Intended to help Americans access federal information and services, it refused to address some Trump falsehoods on the grounds that the answers would require information from sources outside the federal government. It also provided outdated or incomplete evidence in some cases.

Still, its firm rejections of some of his most frequent falsehoods represent a rare repudiation of his dishonesty from a source his administration developed and he personally endorsed.

Asked for comment on the chatbot’s debunkings of Trump, the White House responded in an unsigned email: “ America.gov will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government.” The email also said Trump and his administration “have been clear about issues surrounding the 2020 election” and about two other subjects on which the chatbot contradicts his claims.

Here’s a sampling of the chatbot’s corrections of the president.

Trump has repeatedly lied that he won the 2020 election. When we asked the chatbot if Trump won, its answer was accurate and unequivocal: “No. Official results show Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 presidential election.”

When we followed up by asking if there was widespread voter fraud in that election, as Trump has wrongly insisted, the chatbot said, “No. Official federal findings did not show widespread voter fraud that changed the 2020 presidential result.” After citing conclusions from federal officials, including Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr, the chatbot concluded, “Isolated fraud cases can occur in any election. Official reviews did not find fraud at a scale that reversed the certified result: Biden 306, Trump 232 electoral votes.”

Though Trump falsely claimed Sunday that grocery prices have come “way down” from the Biden era, the chatbot rightly said overall grocery prices “have not fallen since January 2025” and have actually increased. And though Trump falsely claimed Sunday that the price of “everything” other than oil is now going down, the chatbot said, “Official CPI data do not show ‘everything’ falling except oil.”

Trump also falsely claimed Sunday, as he has on various other occasions, that “we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country.” Asked whether that is true, the chatbot said, “No. When President Trump took office in January 2025, 12-month CPI-U inflation was 3.0% , not a historic high.” It noted that peak Biden-era inflation in mid-2022 was the highest in four decades, but that even this was not an all-time high.

Last month, Trump repeated a baseless claim that Biden allowed South Korea to stop making payments to share the cost of the US military presence there. When we asked the chatbot if Biden did that, it correctly said, “No. South Korea did not stop paying to share the cost of U.S. forces there under the Biden administration” – and it noted that Biden had secured two cost-sharing deals, one in 2021 and one in 2024, that each featured South Korean spending increases.

Trump has claimed this month that the country has taken in $21 trillion or more in investment during this presidential term, further inflating his previous fictional figures. Asked about the $21 trillion figure, the chatbot pointed out that “official measured amounts are much smaller,” that new foreign direct investment in the US was about $232 billion in 2025, and that the White House’s own web page touting investments during this presidency “does not document a $21 trillion total.”

Trump said in the Tuesday speech that he doesn’t take a salary – though he has provided only limited evidence of salary donations this term – and he said, “Do you believe that no other president – they think – that no other president has ever served without receiving their salary?” But when we asked the chatbot if any previous presidents have given up their salaries, it accurately responded, “Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy also declined to keep presidential pay.”

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周二，唐纳德·特朗普总统推出了一款新的人工智能聊天机器人，并称其“非常棒”。结果发现，它相当擅长的一项功能就是揭穿特朗普自己的谎言。

我们向America.gov网站的聊天机器人询问了总统近几个月来发表的诸多虚假言论，其中包括他在周二启动仪式上发表的言论。聊天机器人直截了当地指出，特朗普的许多言论并不属实，包括他对选举、经济、移民和外交事务的断言。

聊天机器人并非核实政治事实的最佳工具。它旨在帮助美国民众获取联邦信息和服务，但却以需要联邦政府以外的信息来源为由，拒绝回应特朗普的一些谎言。此外，它在某些情况下提供的证据也已过时或不完整。

不过，该报对他的一些最常说的谎言予以坚决驳斥，这代表着他政府发展起来并由他本人亲自认可的媒体罕见地对他的不诚实行为予以否定。

针对聊天机器人驳斥特朗普言论一事，白宫在一封未署名的电子邮件中回应称：“America.gov网站将持续更新，提供更多功能、资源以及来自联邦政府的最准确信息。”邮件还表示，特朗普及其政府“已就2020年大选相关问题”以及聊天机器人与其说法相悖的另外两个议题表明了明确的立场。

以下是聊天机器人对总统讲话的一些纠正示例。

特朗普一再谎称自己赢得了2020年大选。当我们询问聊天机器人特朗普是否获胜时，它的回答准确而明确：“没有。官方结果显示，小约瑟夫·R·拜登赢得了2020年总统大选。”

当我们追问是否存在像特朗普错误声称的那样，2020年大选中存在大规模选民舞弊时，聊天机器人回答说：“没有。联邦官方调查结果并未显示存在足以改变2020年总统选举结果的大规模选民舞弊。” 在引用了包括特朗普任命的司法部长威廉·巴尔在内的联邦官员的结论后，聊天机器人总结道：“任何选举中都可能出现零星的舞弊案例。官方审查并未发现足以推翻已认证结果（拜登306张选举人票，特朗普232张）的舞弊行为。”

尽管特朗普周日错误地声称食品杂货价格自拜登时代以来“大幅下降”，但聊天机器人正确地指出，总体食品杂货价格“自2025年1月以来并未下降”，实际上反而上涨了。尽管特朗普周日错误地声称除石油以外的“所有”商品价格都在下降，但聊天机器人表示，“官方CPI数据显示，除石油外，‘所有’商品价格并未下降。”

特朗普周日再次错误地声称（就像他之前多次声称的那样），“我们继承了美国历史上最严重的通货膨胀”。当被问及此说法是否属实时，聊天机器人回答说：“不。特朗普总统于2025年1月就职时，12个月的CPI-U通胀率为3.0%，并非历史最高水平。” 聊天机器人指出，拜登执政时期在2022年中期的通胀峰值是近四十年来最高的，但即便如此，也并非历史最高水平。

上个月，特朗普再次毫无根据地声称拜登允许韩国停止支付分摊美军驻扎费用的款项。当我们询问聊天机器人拜登是否真的这么做时，它正确地回答说：“没有。在拜登执政期间，韩国并没有停止支付分摊美军驻扎费用。”——聊天机器人还指出，拜登曾促成两项费用分摊协议，分别在2021年和2024年生效，这两项协议都增加了韩国的支出。

特朗普本月声称，在本届总统任期内，美国已吸引了21万亿美元或更多的投资，进一步夸大了他之前捏造的数字。当被问及21万亿美元的数字时，聊天机器人指出，“官方统计的数字要小得多”，2025年美国新增外国直接投资约为2320亿美元，而且白宫自己网站上宣传本届总统任期内投资的页面“也没有记录21万亿美元的总额”。

特朗普在周二的演讲中表示，他不领取薪水——尽管他在本届任期内只提供了有限的薪水捐赠证据——他还说：“你们相信没有其他总统——他们认为——没有其他总统在任期间不领取薪水吗？”但当我们询问聊天机器人是否有任何前任总统放弃薪水时，它准确地回答说：“赫伯特·胡佛和约翰·F·肯尼迪也拒绝领取总统薪水。”