The White House's new AI chatbot, America.gov, turns out to be a bit of a sausage fest.

Not long after the AI-powered portal went live this week, readers were met face-to-face with a life size Frankfurter. The prompt? "hotdog."

How the apparent Easter egg, a raw dog criminally devoid of condiments, made it onto the site, we can't say. We reached out to the White House for comment on the mystery meat, but sadly haven't heard back.

But given the AI chatbot's general lack of polish, it wouldn't surprise us to discover the errant glizzy was the product of a bored and presumably hungry dev, whose work was forgotten and eventually made it to production. It certainly wouldn't be the first time easter eggs made it into a production release. If you don't believe us, go ask Google to "do a barrel roll."

Intended as a common gateway for Americans to discover, access, and complete common tasks, America.gov is a potentially hallucination-prone front end to Google's Gemini and SpaceXAI's Groq. The site was supposedly built by the National Design Studio, but looks and feels more like something that was frantically vibe coded by a couple of summer interns who've never heard of QA.

As we reported yesterday, the site is packed with rendering errors and features that aren't ready and won't be until at least 2027. These rendering errors it turns out include the hot dog.

On at least one occasion, the Easter egg glitched and was generating extra wieners with every press of the enter key. How generous of the Trump administration to hand out seconds and even thirds.

By the time the site is actually finished, we can only hope our hot dog hero will have snuck in a few more easter eggs. May we suggest baseball or apple pie? ®