On September 29, 2026, Trump signed an executive order making America.gov, an AI-powered site, “the single point of entry for Americans to access covered services online,” and launched it at an event in Washington. “It's not just simply a website,” he said. “It's a restoration of America's founding promise, and it's a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond.” U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia promised it would give answers “only from official sources,” adding, “So there's no chance of getting outdated or inaccurate information like you might on third-party websites.”
The official sources did not agree with the president. Asked who won the 2020 election, the site answered, “Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” Variety reported, and cited the Electoral College count: “Biden: 306 electoral votes; Donald J. Trump: 232 electoral votes.” The AP got “Official federal sources do not show that widespread fraud changed the 2020 presidential election outcome.” Asked whether Trump could run again: “The 22nd Amendment says that no person shall be elected President more than twice. Donald J. Trump has already been elected twice (2016 and 2024).” The AP reported that it also confirmed Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that climate change is largely human-caused.
Then the answers changed. “As Trump was still speaking at Tuesday's launch event, however, the site began modifying its answers,” the AP reported. Asked again about 2020, it said it could not answer “political questions,” and it gave the same response about whether Trump had been impeached or convicted of felonies. No outlet has reported who changed it or how.
What runs the site was not on the site. Gebbia told CNBC it uses Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok, and a White House official confirmed that to NBC News. Gebbia sits on the board of Tesla, which owns part of the company that makes Grok. Trump named Edward Coristine, the DOGE engineer known as “Big Balls,” as the project's lead engineer and thanked Musk, FedScoop reported; the White House did not answer FedScoop's questions about the contracts or privacy protections. Asked about security, Trump said it “cannot, in theory, be hacked into. And when they figure a way to do that, we'll end it, okay?” and added, “Because they always figure a way, right?”
The order also uses the president's new term for the technology, requiring that “super intelligence used in connection with America.gov is accurate, reliable, and transparent.” After a lunch with technology executives that day, Trump said, “We're going to be signing a document today at about 5 o'clock, renaming artificial intelligence because it's not artificial.” He signed it that evening (see Trump Signs an Order Renaming AI 'Super Intelligence,' Then Posts an AI Pledge Signed 'President of the Unites States' and Trump Says the Only Guardrail AI Needs Is a 'STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT' and Tells Critics to 'BEWARE').
Update (September 30, 2026): the answers kept changing. On the morning of September 30 the chat returned “Chat is unavailable right now,” The Independent reported. When it came back, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale posted, “Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud. Today: Says it can't answer such questions.” The New Republic found it declining questions it had answered the day before, including the Congressional Budget Office's estimate that 10.4 million people would lose health insurance by 2034: “I do not provide political commentary or estimates of how legislation will change Medicaid.” Asked whether Trump was right about fraud in 2020, it told Mediaite, “I do not offer political commentary or opinions on elections.”
About two hours later the refusals had reversed. Asked about fraud in 2020, the bot told Mediaite, “Official investigations and statements after the 2020 presidential election did not find widespread fraud that changed the outcome,” and Dale reported it was now giving even more detailed answers than the day before. No one has said who changed it or why; The New Republic's suggestion that someone at the General Services Administration “tweaked” it is speculation. The White House told CNN that “America.gov will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government,” and a White House official told The Hill, “The President and Administration have been clear about issues surrounding the 2020 election, issues that have been documented by John Solomon and the White House Government Transparency Task Force.” CNN's first-day review found the bot contradicting Trump on other claims too: grocery prices “have not fallen since January 2025,” and inflation when he took office “was 3.0%, not a historic high.”