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 “MedBed†technology. He then used to his platform to amplify the nonsensical pseudoscience.
Maybe now’s a good time to renew the whole “cognitive decline†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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