Watch this video. Are you fooled? Does this look at all convincing to you?
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. https://t.co/L1MBPIU4ON pic.twitter.com/wWBQPDFbnb
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) September 28, 2025
It’s not even a good AI video. On technical merits alone, it’s crap; but it’s also touting a non-existent medical technology that it doesn’t bother to explain how these “medbeds” would work. It was promoted by the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, making it merely the latest in a long string of cringe.
In reality, the video, first flagged by Media Matters’ Alex Kaplan, did not air on “My View with Lara Trump,” as it claimed, or any other Fox News show. These so-called med beds do not exist. Yet many QAnon devotees insist the non-existent technology secretly keeps John F. Kennedy Jr. alive. As investigative journalist Jacqueline Sweet has discovered, the earliest mention of the video’s claim comes from a now-deleted Instagram page that “uses a common fake name for fake doctors in romance scams.” By sharing the AI footage of himself, Trump is giving his MAGA followers false hope that he will soon grant them access to the elites’ magic product. The video was eventually deleted from Trump’s account on Sunday morning — but not before it gained traction online.
Trump defenders, as they are often wont to do, rushed to laugh off the incident as a harmless joke. But a quick social media search reveals that a lot of people who are dying or watching a loved one fade away with cancer and other illnesses really believed it. QAnon-type spaces were excited at the possibility that Trump would finally release all the hidden cures. Many MAGA believers have refused medical treatment because they believe med bed tech will restore their health in minutes. This is both depraved and heartbreaking.
How would crawling into a bed with a plastic bubble over it improve the quality of your health care? I don’t know. They don’t know. This is pure cope: the people who are busily dismantling the functionality of conventional health care are trying to compensate by inventing fantasy magical technology to replace it.
This is not a real thing.
I remember years ago when hyperbaric chambers had a brief surge of popularity. Michael Jackson helped popularize this nonsense.
He caught a couple minutes of the medbed scene in 5th Element and thought it was a documentary…
@2 It reminds me of a different movie, Elysium
Elysium plot summary on Wikipedia
4547’s cranium must be full of pudding. How could he watch that and thin “yea, that must be great, I SAID THAT about stuff that doesn’t exist” ? or is he just so used to foisting scams that he forgot which ones he pitched to the rubes and which ones he hadn’t yet?
Trump is definitely far out of touch with reality. Senile, demented and deluded I dunno whether his handlers just let that through for him or quite what.
Problem is too many of Trump’s cultists and other Americans are also just waaay out of toruch with reality enough to believe in even this..
Never mind the insanity that this was shared by a sitting president and all his ass-kissers are just laughing it off as Trump being Trump.
If this had been Biden or Obama, they’d have drafted articles of impeachment 15 minutes after the video got posted.
You’ll be happy to know that today is International Blasphemy day. I have it straight from the horses mouth, an email from Nicole Carr at American Humanist Association, and the indomitable Jesus and Mo. Now I’m going to crawl back into my Med-Bed.
I read an SF novel in which the invading aliens had a “medbed” device. But then, I can tell SF from reality.
SF novelist Larry Niven called “medbeds” auto-docs. Needless to say, that was set in the far future.
If such technology exists, wouldn’t this be a great opportunity for Trump to try it out? Imagine if he could drop 100 lbs and 50 years off his disease wracked body! Or RFK, Jr. could use it to repair his worm-eaten brain and old hooker smoker’s voice.
Well, I’ve been asking for some time when we’d be seeing any of this “Gold Standard Science” Trump and RFKwack have been talking about. And now I guess we have our answer.
I hope someone has a little fun poking RFKwack with this…
Trump did something similar last night.
Posted a poorly done racist AI video insulting Jeffries and Schumer, Democratic Party leaders for the House and Senate.
Trump just posted an insulting AI slop video of Jeffries and Schumer.
It isn’t even good AI slop, badly done and not the least bit realistic.
This is bizarre and reprehensible, not what you expect for a competent adult.
Trump’s mind is gone. He is totally senile.
I’m now sure just about anything the US government does is someone else’s ideas and he is just a meat puppet.
This explains a lot.
Trump is ultra-rich, powerful, politically invulnerable, and sick and dying and he knows it. He just doesn’t care what he does or who he hurts any more. Some of his latest victims such as those boats in the Caribbean are being outright killed, murdered.
PS: This latest Trump mental breakdown is being almost totally ignored by the MainStream Media. He does and says so many stupid and creepy things every day that the news media has to pick and choose which ones to headline.
He doesn’t think that deeply on it. Remember that he was a raging narcissist even before the obvious advance of age-related dementia, and his narcissism is in race condition since he is able to surround himself with enablers. He looks at a video like that and says “It’s about me!”
I begin to suspect that something much weirder than run-of-the-mill fascism is spreading its vile tentacles* over the USA: a kakistocratic regime which is completely and genuinely disconnected from reality, really believing that their words and images create reality. I don’t see any parallels elsewhere – even with Trump’s “friend” Kim Jong Un.
*No disrespect to cephalopods intended, of course!
Colbert had a good mention of this medbeds thing in his latest (?) monologue here FWIW – a dzxoen minutes long.
^ Starst at the 3 mins 53 secs mark onwards specifically for that bit of Colbert’s monologue ^ Dozen mins total approx.
@Raging Bee:
Sadly their ‘gold standard science’ appears to be mostly iron pyrite.
I hope that, one day, devices that look similar to this will be known as RFK Jr Memorial Iron Lungs.
“a kakistocratic regime which is completely and genuinely disconnected from reality, really believing that their words and images create reality”, along with fascism, Christo-fascism, Neo-Confederates, Monarchists/Feudalists, and hate-filled nihilists who sometimes believe they identify with one or more of the previous groups. The next few years probably won’t be as bad as they could have been – but that leaves a lot of room for a lot of evil to happen. And it could become as bad as the most cynical and depressed among us fear it will be….and there are already people whose personal experience is within that penumbra.