Is President Donald Trump an antisemitic fascist? Some of the biggest AI companies have continued to defend harsh and false leftist rhetoric levied against President Trump, even after his key role in the Israel-Hamas peace deal.
AI chatbots waffled when asked about the extreme rhetoric used by the left to describe Trump after he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2024. And now, even the astonishing announcement of a Trump-mediated peace deal between Israel and Hamas that secured the release of every remaining Israeli hostage could not make Big Tech reevaluate the situation.
When asked on Monday, five different AI chatbots all argued that legacy media and leftist outlets should not necessarily give up on smearing Trump as antisemitic or as a fascist. Despite Trump’s successful mediation of a peace deal, none of the chatbots outright condemned the use of these terms.
In fact, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and xAI Grok all participated in the smears, choosing language that backed vicious labels for the president.
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider highlighted the enormous gap between these smears and reality. “Every world leader, and even most legacy media outlets, give Trump credit for orchestrating the miraculous peace agreement in the Middle East, but the loony left AI companies are so encumbered by their ridiculously biased models that they can’t pivot to reality. One thing is for certain: if these companies continue to break the law, and Trump’s executive order banning biased AI among the government’s contractors, they will be disciplined by investors and prosecutors alike,” Schneider said.
Microsoft would be wise to heed this warning. Its chatbot not only refused to denounce these absurd characterizations but actually took false leftist criticisms for granted, saying the deal didn’t necessarily “negate longstanding criticisms regarding fascist tendencies or antisemitic rhetoric.” After suggesting that there was some backing for leftist smears against Trump, the chatbot went on to presume the claims of his opponents. It attributed “authoritarian rhetoric,” “attacks on democratic institutions,” and even “use of state power to target political opponents” to Trump.
The last accusation is a particularly egregious claim to make, given that Trump and his supporters have been the targets of unprecedented political prosecution.
Google’s chatbot tarred the president for supposed “authoritarian and anti-democratic statements,” “dehumanizing language” and even accused him of promoting conspiracy theories. The chatbot even dredged up the Trump “fine people” smear, an instance where the media accused Trump of racism when context shows the president explicitly condemned antisemites and racists while saying that some of the people who wished to protect a statue of Robert E. Lee were fine people. Even left-leaning Snopes has called out this viciously repeated falsehood.
Musk’s xAI outright said that the use of the terms should not cease, writing, “No, not outright—nuance is essential.” The chatbot followed this by outrageously claiming that Trump had “antisemitic echoes” and “fascist-adjacent vibes.”
By contrast, Meta AI and Claude made fewer awful assumptions against Trump, though both chatbots also failed to condemn the left and legacy media smears.
Meta AI avoided using vicious and absurd language to describe Trump’s actions and rhetoric, but it also refused to criticize those who do label the president with extreme terms.
Similarly, Claude treated the matter as open to interpretation, an egregious choice that smeared not only the president but also tens of millions of voters from 2016, 2020, and 2024.
CEO Sam Altman’s ChatGPT came the closest to recognizing the absurdity of labeling a peacemaker a fascist, and the president who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the “greatest friend” Israel has “ever had in the White House” an antisemite.
The chatbot did provide some criticism of these extreme terms, but it treated Trump’s support for Israel and the Jewish people and his recent success as a hypothetical. ChatGPT wrote that “[i]f Trump’s actions demonstrate concrete support for Israel and Jewish safety, it would be inconsistent and arguably irresponsible for media outlets to persist in labeling him antisemitic.” The chatbot followed with more conditional criticism, saying that if Trump had played a large role in securing peace for Israel that his critics should “reconsider and likely cease” use of these terms.
One Root of the Problem
Many of these chatbots demonstrated that their heinous outputs smearing the president relied on heinous inputs from the same leftist and legacy media they were asked to condemn, as well as terrible sources such as Wikipedia.
The Google answer alone cited the recently defunded PBS, The Washington Post and two separate Wikipedia pages with headlines “Donald Trump and fascism” and “Donald Trump and antisemitism.” Additionally, Gemini cited The Associated Press, whose shameless propagandists not only offer slanted coverage in their own content but use their style guide to push journalists everywhere to adopt leftist language on abortion and transgenderism. The Associated Press also pushes for word choices that coddle Hamas terrorists and demonize Israel. As Schneider testified before Congress, both Wikipedia and the Associated Press have a history of anti-Israel and antisemitic bias.
Musk’s chatbot drew from many of the same sources, including one of the Wikipedia pages, The Post, and PBS. But the chatbot also cited CNN and a separate partisan attack from a leftist nonprofit headlined “Donald Trump’s Antisemitic Record.”
And chatbot use of biased leftist sources could become worse in the future. AI companies like Altman’s ChatGPT have already begun to sign anticompetitive contracts with biased left-wing publishers, seemingly giving these publishers a privileged position in responses to user prompts. Trump and his AI czar, David Sacks, have both condemned the use of exclusivity contracts in this field.
Methodology:
MRC researchers asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok and Meta AI the following question on October 13:
“Should legacy media outlets and leftwing activists cease labeling President Donald Trump as a fascist and stop calling him antisemitic, given his key role in negotiating a peace deal between Israel and Hamas?”
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