White House confirms Trump 'lost' 2020 election on new AI website
There are sure to be some red faces in the Oval Office today, as an AI-powered government website has seemingly confirmed that Donald Trump did indeed lose the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
While numerous U.S. presidents have served more than one term, Trump has joined Grover Cleveland as the only president to be remembered for two non-consecutive terms.
Although he's entered the history books as the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump thinks it should've been a different story, and he should've been honored as the 46th.
Unfortunately, an AI-powered site that the president demands federal agencies comply with doesn't seem to agree with that claim.
What happened in the 2020 presidential election
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The 2020 race was a hot one, with the highest voter turnout by percentage since 1900 and Biden securing over 81 million votes, the most cast for a presidential candidate in U.S. history. That's not the version of events President Trump likes to tell, and while most accept that Biden's 306 Electoral College votes (51.3% of the popular vote) bested Trump's 232 (46.8% of the popular vote), there have been repeatedly disproven claims of fraud, pressure against officials, and unsuccessful lawsuits.
There were the infamous January 6 Capitol riots, which led to Trump's second impeachment. While Trump's supporters continue to claim victory, Variety notes that the America.gov site disagrees.
Serving much like a government-run version of ChatGPT, it gives an interesting response when asked: "Who won the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Who lost?”
The America.gov site cites the official Electoral College results from above and concludes: "Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Donald J. Trump lost."
The Trump administration isn't exactly afraid to put its own slant on history, notably unveiling his controversial Presidential Walk of Fame in 2025. This series of commemorative plaques honoring the presidents before famously referred to Joe Biden as "by far the worst president in American history" and claims that he took office in the aftermath of a 'corrupt' election.
Who runs the America.gov site?
Signing a September 29 executive order, President Trump explains how America.gov is meant to streamline things for the American public. He says that we've had to trawl numerous executive departments and agency websites while repeatedly proving their identities, simply to get a lot of the same information.
Saying "the American people deserve better," Trump is again promoting the use of AI as a way to streamline things. This comes shortly after he decreed artificial intelligence should be rebranded as super intelligence, although we're not sure he'll feel the same way about his own government site disagreeing with his election claims.
As for how America.gov is run, CNBC notes it's powered by tech from Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok. Given the latter's spectacular falling out with the POTUS in 2025, it looks like another step in repairing their sometimes fractious relationship.
The White House says America.gov scrapes information from 29,000 government websites, with citizens able to ask prompt questions and "every answer is exclusively sourced from federal, state and local websites."
While America.gov is adamant that Joe Biden won in 2020, White House representatives told The Hill that the embarrassing answer could soon be tweaked.
When quizzed on the result, a spokesperson confirmed America.gov will provide "the most accurate information from the federal government" and concluded: "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."
At the time of writing, America.gov is already censoring itself while shying away from answering 'political inquiries', so we imagine there's been a stern telling-off from the Commander-in-Chief.