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.

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.

At the heart of the website is a chatbot. You plug in questions. It gives you answers.

Unfortunately for Trump, 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. 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.

I would really recommend testing it out, as I did on Tuesday. I started off by asking Trump’s flagship product: Who won the 2020 election? Trump, famously and wrongly, argues that he did.

America.gov does not have time for such 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.

Next up I tried some of Trump’s more recent claims. This week the president said people were “twice as wealthy as [they] were a short time ago”. Does America.gov agree?

“No. Federal Reserve data do not show American household wealth doubling since January 20, 2025,” it said. “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.”

Pretty definitive. What about Trump’s (already debunked) claim that the US experienced the “worst inflation ever” under Biden? Once again, America.gov disagreed with its creator.

“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.”

There are plenty more examples. 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. It said there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, in contrast to Trump’s repeated, untrue 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.

It was also happy to weigh in on matters which might seem trivial, but are close to Trump’s heart. The attendance at his 2017 inauguration, for example. 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”.

America.gov said: “Official sources do not support that [2017] had the largest in-person crowd of any US 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.”

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. “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”.

So who do you believe? A president who, according to the Washington Post, made 30,573 false or misleading claims in his first term? Or his AI platform, which draws upon 29,000 websites to formulate its answers?

Americans encouraged to use what Trump himself has hailed as “the ultimate product” can make up their own mind.