"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query "does trump show signs of dementia" as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search about President Trump, AI Overviews will display a message that says, "An AI Overview is not available for this search":"
"Google's behavior is inconsistent if you swap in different names. When asking "does biden show signs of dementia", Google doesn't show an AI Overview at all: But in AI Mode, it will offer a summarized response. When I searched for it, the response started with, "It's not possible to definitively state whether former President Joe Biden has dementia based solely on publicly available information.""
Google blocks AI Overviews for searches asking whether President Trump shows signs of dementia, returning only lists of web links in AI Mode. Multiple queries about dementia, Alzheimer's, and senility related to Trump produce no AI-generated summary. The behavior differs for other presidents: Biden queries produced a summarized AI response noting inconclusive public evidence, and Obama queries returned AI Overviews stating no public evidence of dementia. The pattern is inconsistent across names and indicates differential handling of queries about specific political figures' mental acuity, potentially due to sensitivity about accuracy and harm.
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