Chatbot cites Federal Reserve, BLS, and congressional data in answering queries

President Donald Trump launched America.gov on September 29, 2026, an AI-powered federal services portal the White House says will eventually let Americans renew passports and enroll in Medicare through a chatbot. The platform’s central feature has already begun answering questions with responses that differ from the president’s own public statements on the 2020 election, household wealth, inflation, and other topics.

The chatbot’s responses, drawn from federal data sources and approximately 29,000 websites, have created an unusual public split between the president and a platform he has personally championed as “the ultimate product.”

According to a Guardian report published September 30, a reporter tested the chatbot on launch day by querying it on several Trump claims. Asked who won the 2020 presidential election, the bot responded: “Joseph R Biden Jr won the 2020 US presidential election,” and provided the number of electoral college votes Biden won by. Trump has maintained since 2020 that he won that contest.

On a more recent assertion — Trump’s claim this week that Americans were “twice as wealthy as [they] were a short time ago” — the bot replied: “No. Federal Reserve data do not show American household wealth doubling since January 20, 2025.” It cited the Fed’s “Economic Well-Being of US Households in 2025,” which found 73% of adults “doing okay” or “living comfortably” — unchanged from recent years, not a doubling of typical household finances.

On inflation, the bot disputed Trump’s description of the Biden years as “the worst inflation ever,” responding: “No. 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.”

The chatbot addressed several other Trump claims, according to the Guardian. It denied Trump’s recent claim at the United Nations that the US and Venezuela hold 60% of the world’s oil. It contradicted his repeated assertions of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. It refuted his assertion at the launch event that no other president had refused a government salary.

On the 2017 inauguration, the bot cited the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies as listing 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 — at odds with the Trump team’s claim at the time that the 2017 event drew “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”

Asked about Trump’s claim that wind turbines drive whales “loco,” the bot responded: “No. US federal science agencies do not find that wind turbines (‘windmills’) drive whales ‘loco’.” It added, just to be completely clear, that windmills are not “driving whales insane.”

The executive order Trump signed to create the platform states that America.gov is intended as a place where Americans can “receive accurate answers” to all sorts of questions, according to the Guardian. The platform draws on approximately 29,000 websites to formulate its answers.

The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during Trump’s first term, a figure the Guardian cited in its report.