US President Donald Trump posted a AI-generated video promoting a cure-all medical bed that had origins from the QAnon movement.
In the now-deleted AI video, Fox News anchor Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, announces that Trump launched America’s first medbed hospital.
In the video, the fake Trump appears to sit addressing reporters in the Oval Office.
“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” the computer-generated Trump states.
"With it, you'll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.
"These facilities are safe, modern, and designed to restore every citizen to full health and strength,” he adds.
What is a medbed?
A med bed is a panaceaic medical bed that has made the rounds among some far-right conspiracy theorists who support Trump.
Some believe that these devices can heal disease and de-age anyone with levels of medical technology only seen in Sci-Fi movies. Photos and videos that have been circulated on far-right corners of Truth Social, Rumble, or Telegram show clearly AI-generated medical beds that look like a cross between an MRI scanner and an alien sleep pod.
The images are often accompanied by captions that use a mishmash of scientific words, such as terahertz light waves or AI quantum technology, to theorize what the beds are capable of.
Conspiracy theorists who believe in their existence believe that the US military reverse-engineered the technology from UFOs that landed in America in the 1950s, and that a small group of liberal billionaires has kept the medbeds for themselves.
However, some groups on social media claim that for a registration fee of thousands of dollars, regular citizens can go to secret tunnels under military bases, step into a bed, and get cured from any ailment they might have.
Memorabilia medbed gold cards tied to Trump circulate online
Also circulating online was the alleged Trump MedBed gold card website. The site claims to sell cards, which cost up to $5000, that allow citizens to make appointments at a nonexistent medbed. However, further inspection of the site reveals a disclaimer stating that the cards are solely Trump memorabilia, indicating a legal clause for when buyers are inevitably denied treatment.
One falsified testimony claimed that a customer bought one card for $599, and then "all of his ailments were healed" after he went to a facility.
“With President Trump, you always have a chance and a better future! WEAK leaves, STRONG stays. Glad to see so many of you are STRONG, Patriots,” the site reads, backed with superimposed pictures of Trump and the US flag.
“Take advantage of it right now and don’t feel sorry later! Better days are coming.”