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highplainsdem

(58,355 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:15 PM 20 hrs ago

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 20 hrs ago OP
Imaginary alt to health coverage? SheltieLover 20 hrs ago #1
They're coming to take me away... Chasstev365 20 hrs ago #2
Ha ha I loved that song as a kid kimbutgar 20 hrs ago #4
I remember seeing these miraculous markodochartaigh 20 hrs ago #3
Medical Bedical Pedofile Boo ! dweller 20 hrs ago #5
AI generated trump..... Bayard 20 hrs ago #6
But much more natural-looking The Madcap 18 hrs ago #10
Better keep Vance away from that contraption C_U_L8R 20 hrs ago #7
For the uninitiated, the medbed thing isn't just a conspiracy theory. RockRaven 20 hrs ago #8
Even Dr. McCoy thinks that's nuts maxrandb 20 hrs ago #9
I have a demented MAGA Q-Anon family member who believes this..... joanbarnes 17 hrs ago #11
Are "medbeds" based on "Med-Bays" from this 2013 sci-fi flick? Grokenstein 17 hrs ago #12
"Autodocs" of one sort or another are an old staple in SF. eppur_se_muova 16 hrs ago #13
Please don't let him watch any nuclear war movies while going to sleep. Buddyzbuddy 14 hrs ago #14

kimbutgar

(26,136 posts)
4. Ha ha I loved that song as a kid
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:27 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(4,162 posts)
3. I remember seeing these miraculous
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:25 PM
20 hrs ago

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.

Bayard

(27,150 posts)
6. AI generated trump.....
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:32 PM
20 hrs ago

Just think about how that can be used.

Way more scandalous than an auto-pen.

C_U_L8R

(48,165 posts)
7. Better keep Vance away from that contraption
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:32 PM
20 hrs ago

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

RockRaven

(18,076 posts)
8. For the uninitiated, the medbed thing isn't just a conspiracy theory.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:36 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(16,864 posts)
9. Even Dr. McCoy thinks that's nuts
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:01 PM
20 hrs ago

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

There really is a Star Trek clip for EVERYTHING.

?feature=shared

joanbarnes

(2,038 posts)
11. I have a demented MAGA Q-Anon family member who believes this.....
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:15 PM
17 hrs ago

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

Grokenstein

(6,153 posts)
12. Are "medbeds" based on "Med-Bays" from this 2013 sci-fi flick?
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:43 PM
17 hrs ago
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

(40,117 posts)
13. "Autodocs" of one sort or another are an old staple in SF.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:46 PM
16 hrs ago

"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.

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