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Internet outrage over Trump's AI 'MedBed' conspiracy video
Bangkok Post
|October 01, 2025
Donald Trump stirred online outrage Monday after posting an apparent Al-generated video of himself promising every American access to all-healing "MedBed" hospitals, reviving a widely debunked conspiracy theory.
A supporter of President Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines in July.
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The deepfake video - posted Saturday on the US president's Truth Social account and later deleted - was styled as a Fox News segment and featured his daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoting a fictitious White House launch of a "historic new healthcare system."
The phony clip then purported to show Trump announcing from the Oval Office that "every American will soon receive their own MedBed card," guaranteeing access to "new hospitals led by the top doctors" and "equipped with the most advanced technology."
The only problem? Such hospitals do not exist.
MedBed, a theory popular among far-right circles and the QAnon conspiracy movement, refers to an imaginary medical device equipped with futuristic technology that adherents say can cure any ailment, from asthma to cancer.
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