The Trump administration has touted its revamped America.gov website as a way to simplify Americans' access to information and services scattered across a plethora of federal agency sites. But President Donald Trump probably won't like some of the answers his new site says are sourced from government information.

The site, which says its answers are generated via artificial intelligence from "official government sources," responded to questions about who won the 2020 election and about the name of the federal department headquartered at the Pentagon with replies contrary to those Trump himself frequently proclaims.

The episode highlights a practical tension for AI tools that answer by drawing on official records: the same sources that lend a government chatbot its authority can surface conclusions at odds with the politicians who promote it.

As Trump was still speaking at Tuesday's launch event, however, the site began modifying its answers. Asked again about the 2020 election, it replied that it could not answer "political questions" — a response it also gave to inquiries about whether Trump had been impeached or convicted of felony charges. How the chatbot handles those same questions once launch day is over — and whether it continues to decline them or returns to substantive answers — will be worth watching as the site settles in.

The Associated Press asked the chatbot about:

The 2020 presidential election

"Official federal sources do not show that widespread fraud changed the 2020 presidential election outcome. Isolated election crimes did occur and have been prosecuted."

Since Trump, a Republican, lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, he has repeatedly falsely claimed that victory was "stolen" from him and asserted that widespread fraud occurred. Repeated audits and recounts found no significant fraud in the presidential election, and Trump's own administration said the election was clean.

Trump running for president in 2028

"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). I am not giving legal advice."

Trump has frequently suggested he wants to seek a third term, posting about mounting another campaign, donning 2028 caps and discussing ways to make it happen — even as he has acknowledged the Constitution prohibits it. He had only been back in the White House for a couple of months when he told NBC News, "There are methods which you could" use to seek a third term.

The Pentagon

"The Pentagon is the headquarters of the Department of Defense."

Last year, Trump signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War, complaining that the Department of Defense's name was "woke."

Human action as cause of climate change

"Federal climate-science pages recent warming is largely from human greenhouse-gas emissions, mainly burning fossil fuels. Earth's climate has also changed for natural reasons over long periods."

Trump, who has called climate change a "hoax," previously issued an executive order that directed the Environmental Protection Agency to submit a report on "the legality and continuing applicability" of the endangerment finding. Conservatives and some congressional Republicans have long sought to undo what they consider overly restrictive and economically damaging rules to limit greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

Presidential salaries

The chatbot said that "some presidents have declined to keep that pay," mentioning Trump but listing George Washington, Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy as refusing their salaries before Trump.

During his remarks Tuesday, Trump — a real estate mogul who took in about $1.2 billion from various crypto holdings last year — said he was the first U.S. president to forgo a salary, something he has said before.

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Kinnard reported from Columbia, S.C. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com.