President Donald Trump’s new AI search tool was built as a weapon in his war on “wokeness.”

Instead, it’s turning on him—one fact-check at a time.

Launched last week on Trump’s conservative social network, Truth Social, Truth Search AI is being billed by Trump allies as a “patriotic” alternative to Big Tech’s supposedly biased chatbots, allowing MAGA loyalists to access information that aligns with the president’s worldview.

Ironically, the right-wing bot is powered by Perplexity AI—a Silicon Valley sweetheart backed by the very Big Tech giants Trump claims to be fighting, including Amazon and Nvidia.

And that’s not the only contradiction: Many of Truth Search AI’s responses to questions posed by the Daily Beast undermined the conspiracies and baseless claims the president has long pro

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