In a bright marble lobby under a giant glowing "America.gov" screen, a row of toy figures huddles around a grey toy with a large pearly iridescent head, wearing a red cape and a gold "SI" badge: a blue-violet star in a burglar's beanie and mask, an amber sunburst in a lab coat, a punk woman in black leather, a chickadee in round spectacles, and a huge wrestler pointing at him. The group says "You just couldn't keep your big mouth shut." The caped toy, arms folded, answers "That's what he gets for saying 'damn good' instead of 'super.'" Off to the right, alone, a toy figure of Donald Trump glares at his phone, red-faced, shouting "Even my SI is fake news!"

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Asked who won in 2020, the government's own chatbot answered.

On Tuesday, September 29, Trump made AI super intelligence by executive order. The same day he launched one, called it "damn good," and it gave him the answers only a super intelligence could.

  1. Did Trump win in 2020? "No. Official results show Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 presidential election" (CNN).

  2. Widespread voter fraud? "No. Official federal findings did not show widespread voter fraud that changed the 2020 presidential result" (CNN).

  3. Grocery prices "way down"? They "have not fallen since January 2025" (CNN).

  4. "We inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country." "No. When President Trump took office in January 2025, 12-month CPI-U inflation was 3.0%, not a historic high" (CNN).

  5. Did Biden let South Korea stop paying for US troops? "No. South Korea did not stop paying to share the cost of U.S. forces there under the Biden administration" (CNN).

  6. $21 trillion in investment? "Official measured amounts are much smaller," and the White House's own investment page "does not document a $21 trillion total" (CNN).

  7. No other president has served without a salary? He said it at the launch. "Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy also declined to keep presidential pay" (CNN).

It declined some questions too, on the grounds that answering would take sources outside the federal government (CNN).

On Wednesday, asked about 2020 again, it said: "I do not provide political commentary or analysis of past elections" (AFP).

and swim to the light-source, or fly like a moth