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highplainsdem

(58,364 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:15 PM Sunday

Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy

Source: The Verge

Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first MedBed hospital and a national MedBed card system (two things that very much do not exist). There was no additional context, no text to explain things. Confusing matters more, the video appears to be completely AI generated, including Trump himself discussing the program in the Oval Office. (Perhaps one of the biggest giveaways being the president’s ability to stay on script.)

MedBeds, for those that tend to avoid the more QANON-y corners of the internet, are an imaginary medical device that can do everything from treat asthma, to regrow missing limbs, to cure cancer. The fantasy of an all-in-one device that can cure all your ills has obvious appeal, but belief that these are real products being kept from the American public by Big Pharma has grown among conspiracy theorists in recent years.

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Read more: https://www.theverge.com/news/787042/trump-posts-then-pulls-bizarre-ai-video-promoting-medbed-conspiracy

Bluesky post showing what Trump posted. I'm guessing the demented wannabe dictator thought this was real.

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
— Alex Kaplan (@alkapdc.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T03:14:11.696Z

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Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy (Original Post) highplainsdem Sunday OP

Imaginary alt to health coverage? SheltieLover Sunday #1

They're coming to take me away... Chasstev365 Sunday #2

Ha ha I loved that song as a kid kimbutgar Sunday #4

I remember seeing these miraculous markodochartaigh Sunday #3

Medical Bedical Pedofile Boo ! dweller Sunday #5

AI generated trump..... Bayard Sunday #6

But much more natural-looking The Madcap Sunday #10

Better keep Vance away from that contraption C_U_L8R Sunday #7

For the uninitiated, the medbed thing isn't just a conspiracy theory. RockRaven Sunday #8

Even Dr. McCoy thinks that's nuts maxrandb Sunday #9

I have a demented MAGA Q-Anon family member who believes this..... joanbarnes Sunday #11

Are "medbeds" based on "Med-Bays" from this 2013 sci-fi flick? Grokenstein Sunday #12

"Autodocs" of one sort or another are an old staple in SF. eppur_se_muova Sunday #13

Please don't let him watch any nuclear war movies while going to sleep. Buddyzbuddy Sunday #14

MaddowBlog-Why it was so deeply weird to see Trump amplify 'medbed' pseudoscience LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #15

SheltieLover

(73,998 posts)

1. Imaginary alt to health coverage?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:18 PM

Sunday

Chasstev365

(6,341 posts)

2. They're coming to take me away...

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:19 PM

Sunday

?si=ji-k05JfR5H2CKtx

kimbutgar

(26,141 posts)

4. Ha ha I loved that song as a kid

Reply to Chasstev365 (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:27 PM

Sunday

I used to play the 45 all the time and then it mysteriously disappeared. Years later my older sister admitted she hid the 45 because she hated it. I found it years later when I was looking for something in my childhood home and still have it !

That said p, that song aptly describes the orange turd’s mental state now !

markodochartaigh

(4,175 posts)

3. I remember seeing these miraculous

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:25 PM

Sunday

Medbeds at a worldwide meeting for the Gay Agenda. They use a sPeCiAL technology developed in George Soros SpaceLaser Labs. They were originally developed to treat veterans of The War on Christmas.

dweller

(27,210 posts)

5. Medical Bedical Pedofile Boo !

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:30 PM

Sunday

(insert pin in liver on doll )

✌🏻

Bayard

(27,172 posts)

6. AI generated trump.....

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:32 PM

Sunday

Just think about how that can be used.

Way more scandalous than an auto-pen.

The Madcap

(1,491 posts)

10. But much more natural-looking

Reply to Bayard (Reply #6)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:15 PM

Sunday

Than the genuine article.

C_U_L8R

(48,170 posts)

7. Better keep Vance away from that contraption

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:32 PM

Sunday

Lord knows what he’s already done to the upholstery.

RockRaven

(18,087 posts)

8. For the uninitiated, the medbed thing isn't just a conspiracy theory.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:36 PM

Sunday

It is also a collection of scams! Of course it is.

Medbeds hit the MSM in 2022, and many of those articles also covered the scam angle. There was a cottage industry of fraudsters making money off the gullible and desperate with empty promises resting on this premise they had heard from RWNJ CT circles. Trump featured heavily into those CTs, as the hero, naturally.

But the medbed thing predated the MSM awareness of them. One can still find posts yammering about medbeds on Elon's hellsite from the summer of 2020; unsurprisingly many of those posts bear the signals of a troll farm (poor syntax, Cyrillic letters, images stolen from known films/TV).

maxrandb

(16,869 posts)

9. Even Dr. McCoy thinks that's nuts

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:01 PM

Sunday

"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not an escalator"

There really is a Star Trek clip for EVERYTHING.

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joanbarnes

(2,038 posts)

11. I have a demented MAGA Q-Anon family member who believes this.....

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:15 PM

Sunday

.....thinks it will grow back radiation deactivated thyroid gland.

Grokenstein

(6,154 posts)

12. Are "medbeds" based on "Med-Bays" from this 2013 sci-fi flick?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:43 PM

Sunday

Elysium

In 2154, Earth is overpopulated, diseased, and heavily polluted from ecocide. The planet's citizens live in extreme poverty. In contrast, the rich and powerful live on Elysium, an orbiting space station just outside Earth's atmosphere, with luxuries including Med-Bays, medical devices that can heal any disease or condition.

Medbay Dispatch scene (WARNING: ENDING SPOILER):

eppur_se_muova

(40,129 posts)

13. "Autodocs" of one sort or another are an old staple in SF.

Reply to Grokenstein (Reply #12)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:46 PM

Sunday

"Medpods", "cyberdocs", etc. etc. show up in lots of stories dating back decades.

OK, sure, a recent movie may have inspired some CT-crazy Qanoner, but the idea has a long history behind iit.

Buddyzbuddy

(1,576 posts)

14. Please don't let him watch any nuclear war movies while going to sleep.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:06 PM

Sunday

SERIOUSLY

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,354 posts)

15. MaddowBlog-Why it was so deeply weird to see Trump amplify 'medbed' pseudoscience

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:08 PM

15 hrs ago

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment that showed the president touting magical beds to the public. So why did he promote it?

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment featuring Trump touting magical â€œMedBedâ€ technology. He then used to his platform to amplify the nonsensical pseudoscience.

Maybe nowâ€™s a good time to renew the whole â€œcognitive declineâ€ conversation? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-29T18:39:10.323Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-medbed-pseudoscience-rcna234487

When it comes to science and medicine, Donald Trump’s track record is an embarrassment. We are, after all, talking about a president who endorsed injections of disinfectant as a possible Covid treatment five years ago.......

One day later, he helped introduce the public to the “MedBed” idea. Politico reported:

Yesterday on Truth Social, the president of the United States shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News (it wasn’t) in which an A.I.-generated, deep-faked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that ‘every American will soon receive their own MedBed card’ that will grant them access to new ‘MedBed hospitals.’

In all candor, I’ll confess that I’d never heard anything about this before the weekend, but evidently, there are fringe conspiracy theorists who believe there are magical, futuristic beds that can cure every disease, regrow missing limbs and even reverse the human aging process.

This is, of course, quite bonkers, though as the Politico report went on to note, “An offshoot of MedBed believers are QAnon devotees who insist the non-existent technology is being used to secretly keep John F. Kennedy Jr. alive.”.....

Incidents like these are not uncommon. Indeed, Democrats tried to make them a campaign issue ahead of Election Day 2024. In the race’s closing weeks, for example, Trump told a 12-minute story about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia, which came just days after the Republican decided to stop taking questions at a town hall event and instead swayed to music for 39 minutes.

A year later, Trump has promoted a “medbed” video for reasons that have not yet been explained.

As USA Today’s Rex Huppke summarized, after Trump twice suggested he was headed to Russia when he was actually going to Alaska, “That’s the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpa’s future.” Huppke similarly recently described the president as being “in obvious mental decline.”

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