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riversedge

(78,029 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:40 PM Sunday

Daniel Dale: The fake "medbeds" announcement video has been deleted from Trump's Truth Social acco

In the meantime--the #MAGA fans sucked it up.

Daniel Dale @ddale8
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The fake “medbeds” announcement video has been deleted from President Trump’s Truth Social account.

Last night, the president posted a fictional Fox News report in which an AI version of himself announced a new (nonexistent) policy of giving every American “a free medbed card” to give them “guaranteed access” to (imaginary) hospitals in which they can be returned “to full health” by (imaginary) magical “medbeds,” a conspiracy theory that circulates in an an obscure fraction of the online far right.

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Alex Kaplan
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Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. https://yahoo.com/news/qanon-con

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Daniel Dale: The fake "medbeds" announcement video has been deleted from Trump's Truth Social acco (Original Post) riversedge Sunday OP

It seems like Trump will like or forward any social media post that mentions his name Ocelot II Sunday #1

Or he is not running the account. newdeal2 Sunday #3

If he had a good staff, it would one minute to see how stupid these med beds are!! But of riversedge Sunday #4

This has his idiot first-born son written all over it. GoCubsGo Sunday #5

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that sadly is a large proportion of Republican voters muriel_volestrangler Sunday #2

Medbed? Like the extra-terrestrial sarcophagus in "Stargate"? 0rganism Sunday #6

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment that showed the president touting magical beds to the public. So why d LetMyPeopleVote Monday #7

Ocelot II

(127,484 posts)

1. It seems like Trump will like or forward any social media post that mentions his name

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:46 PM

Sunday

or features him in a positive light, no matter how ridiculous or fake it might be.

newdeal2

(4,243 posts)

3. Or he is not running the account.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:54 PM

Sunday

Just like he’s not really running the White House.

riversedge

(78,029 posts)

4. If he had a good staff, it would one minute to see how stupid these med beds are!! But of

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:56 PM

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course, I doubt he listens much to his staff.

GoCubsGo

(34,393 posts)

5. This has his idiot first-born son written all over it.

Reply to riversedge (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:00 PM

Sunday

Probably posted while on one of his cocaine benders.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,864 posts)

2. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that sadly is a large proportion of Republican voters

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:53 PM

Sunday

There's pretty much no down-side to Trump making any kind of claim, no matter how lunatic. This episode will disappear within 24 hours, and no one will use it as an example of Trump either being insane, or of him lying shamelessly.

0rganism

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6. Medbed? Like the extra-terrestrial sarcophagus in "Stargate"?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:03 PM

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In the absence of quality secondary-school education, looks like people fall back to the Hollywood fictions and mythology of a simpler time. This is the great failure of my generation, we got too good at weaving fantasy into reality and forgot the importance of a rational examined approach to... well, everything. Of course there were (and always will be) other forces at work, but this proficiency in making dreamworlds tangible while devaluing the existing society's institutions has borne strange fruit.

LetMyPeopleVote

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7. Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment that showed the president touting magical beds to the public. So why d

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:08 PM

Monday

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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