Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the artificial intelligence fact-checker he has unleashed against himself.

Last week, the White House unveiled America.gov, a search tool it declared to be no less than “the unified digital front door to the Federal Government.”

This gizmo, a White House news release said, will usher in a “fundamentally different relationship between the people and the Federal Government, defined by simplicity, speed, accuracy, security and respect for the individual.”

Type “America.gov” in a web browser and you’re ushered to a simply designed chatbot that offers to help you find government information and interact with administrative agencies.

Speaking to the press, Trump adjudged it to be “damn good.”

After test-driving the chatbot, reporters were inclined to agree, finding it did a pretty good job at debunking Trump’s oft-repeated falsehoods on topics such as election fraud, tariffs, inflation, illegal immigration, climate change and, perhaps most painfully for Trump’s ego, who won the 2020 election.

A New York Times report, for example,........

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