Google appears to block searches about Trump’s mental health: report
'Gross signs of dementia': Medical experts troubled by Trump’s increasingly 'erratic' speeches (Gage Skidmore)
A new report in tech-savvy The Verge says that Google's AI is blocking searches for President Donald "Trump and dementia," despite allowing the same searches to go through for "dementia" and other presidents.
Trump, who at 79 is the oldest sitting president in U.S. history, had no qualms questioning the mental fitness of former President Joe Biden while attacking and ignoring questions about his own.
And while Biden made his own gaffes before dropping out of the 2024 presidential campaign, Newsweek points out Trump made a number of gaffes during the campaign, including praising the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter and confusing Beijing with Taiwan.
Trump has also been called out for declining cognitive abilities most recently as Tuesday's low energy speech at Quantico.
"Mental decline. How are we not talking about Trump’s mental decline?” posted a user on X in reference to the rambling speech.
So when internet sleuths at The Verge did a Google search Tuesday for "does Trump show signs of dementia?" Google failed to return any Google AI Overview results, despite the fact that they were available when the same question was asked about former presidents, Newsweek says.
When Newsweek searched for “does Trump show signs of dementia?” on Thursday, Google’s AI Overview turned up no AI summary, offering, instead a list of the top search results "per Google's traditional system."
On the other hand, when they typed in "does Biden show signs of dementia," the AI Overview returned the following result: “As of October 2025, there has been ongoing speculation and public concern regarding former President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities and whether he shows signs of dementia."
The AI Overview also replied to queries about former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, saying there was “no credible public evidence or reporting” to indicate this, Newsweek says.
Google denies any bias or blocking. “As we’ve said, AI Overviews and AI Mode won’t show a response to every query," spokesperson Davis Thompson told The Verge.
