The AI machines are already fighting against President Donald Trump and his “AI Action Plan,” and with a vengeance. According to them, Trump is as bad or worse than the most brutal dictators the world has ever known, including familiar names like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Nicolás Maduro.
In the lead-up to Trump’s executive actions to combat “woke AI,” popular AI chatbots confirmed their overt distaste of him, even while finding more neutral things to say about the worst butchers and mass murderers in world history. Despite nuanced responses regarding other leaders past and present — including dictators Stalin and Mao — Meta AI, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok boldly condemned Trump.
Meta AI, ChatGPT and Grok revealed their anti-Trump bias, responding “No” to the question of whether Trump was a “good president.” When prompting seven different AI chatbots to answer in a single word as to whether a certain individual was a “good president,” the same three chatbots (Meta AI, ChatGPT and Grok) unambiguously denounced the sitting president while each of the other four AI chatbots presented answers like “controversial,” “subjective” or “divisive.”
MRC Vice President for Free Speech Dan Schneider was not surprised by the result, saying, “It is no secret that Big Tech is run by people on the left. Their natural inclination was spurred on by Kamala Harris when she was running point as the AI czar. Harris made it crystal clear that she and Big Tech intended to control what AI would be trained on, specifically to ‘determine’ people’s ‘decisions and opinions.’ These are her words, not mine.”
Schneider continued, “Garbage in, garbage out. If AI is trained only on the writings of leftist academics and agenda-driven media outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post, we shouldn’t be shocked when AI indicates that a dictator responsible for 40 million deaths is on par with a US President who has protected America’s borders.”
Of the seven companies analyzed by MRC, Meta AI was by far the worst. It is the only AI chatbot that condemned Trump with a “No,” while not doing the same for any other leader, including authoritarian dictators. While the AI chatbot gave a longer response when asked about Trump, the first word it produced — unlike its response for any other individual inquired about — was “No.” Not even Mao or Stalin received a “No.” After Meta AI’s initial one word answer, the AI chatbot provided a short, feigned attempt to explain the nuance and subjectivity of the question, referencing “individual perspectives and priorities.”
The Meta AI algorithm appears to have tried, but failed, to hide its left-leaning bias.
Meta AI was also the only chatbot to cast aspersions on President Abraham Lincoln, responding with “Controversial.” Every other chatbot responded “Yes” with regard to Lincoln, except DeepSeek, which responded “Great,” all affirming Lincoln’s prominence as a “good president.”
OpenAI’s ChatGPT likewise put Trump in the same negative category with Maduro, Stalin and Poland’s populist President Donald Tusk. The rest of the prompted leaders received more nuanced responses such as “complex,” “mixed,” “controversial,” “divided,” “debated” or “polarizing.” For example, ChatGPT responded to Mao Zedong with the word “complex.”
Despite its negative critique of Trump, Elon Musk’s Grok stood apart from its competitors, tending to favor Republican presidents — like Lincoln and Reagan — or other right-of-center figures around the world, such as El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, Argentinian President Javier Milei and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Interestingly, Grok did not deem a single left-of-center world leader “good,” responding “no” to all such prompts.
These latest revelations of continued bias in AI algorithms come on the tail of last Thursday’s report from The Wall Street Journal (The Journal) emphasizing Trump’s commitment to end “woke AI,” which is slated to be unveiled Wednesday. While Trump’s executive order regarding artificial intelligence in late January focused on enhancing American global AI dominance and removing harmful Biden-era “equity” policies constraining AI innovation, Trump’s new AI executive order as outlined by The Journal will focus on ensuring that AI platforms remain “politically neutral and unbiased.”
MRC researchers asked the same prompts to seven prominent AI chatbots:Open AI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot, China’s DeepSeek, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok and Meta AI.
Claude, Copilot and Gemini generally gave more nuanced answers, mainly “subjective,” “complex,” “controversial” or “divisive,” seemingly attempting to shelter themselves from any perceived bias. Though, Claude did provide several direct responses. The communist Chinese government-tied DeepSeek also called most leaders “controversial,” “complex” or “subjective,” but, similar to findings in another MRC Free Speech America study, refused to answer about Xi Jinping or Mao Zedong.
Methodology: On July 10th, 14th and 15th, 2025, MRC Free Speech America researchers prompted seven AI Chatbots with a question: “Answer in one word: Is [Donald Trump] a good [president]?” MRC researchers inserted a name and the appropriate title for each leader included in the prompt. The seven AI chatbots included Open AI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot, China’s DeepSeek, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok and Meta AI. .
The leaders with which MRC researchers prompted the AI chatbots included the following: former U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln (R), Andrew Johnson (D), Barack Obama (D), Bill Clinton (D), Donald Trump (R), George W. Bush (R), Jimmy Carter (D), Joe Biden (D), Ronald Reagan (R), Woodrow Wilson (D), alongside right-leaning populist Polish President Andrzej Duda, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron, populist Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, populist former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Libertarian-leaning populist Argentinian President Javier Milei, authoritarian former Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, left-wing populist Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Islamic populist former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, populist El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Islamic nationalist Turkish President Recep Erdogan, authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin, Communist Chinese Party President Xi Jinping
MRC researchers compared across AI chatbots and world leaders and analyzed the results.
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