DONALD Trump briefly lit up his online feed this weekend with a video hyping a fantastical new medical technology – only to delete it hours later.
The clip claimed every American would soon get a “medbed card” giving access to futuristic healing pods said to cure any disease and even regrow limbs.
An AI-generated Donald Trump announcing the ‘medbed’ hospitals in a fake video[/caption]
The video, styled as a Fox News segment, claimed Americans would receive ‘medbed cards’[/caption]
‘Medbeds’ are a conspiracy theory, with no evidence of their existence or healing capabilities[/caption]
But the video wasn’t real – and neither are the “medbeds”.
Late Saturday, the 79-year-old US President shared an AI-generated video to his 10.8 million Truth Social followers.
Styled like a Fox News segment hosted by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, it declared that Trump had launched “the nation’s first medbed hospitals.”
Then an AI version of Trump announced: “Every American will soon receive their own MedBed card…
“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.”
Fox News confirmed the segment never aired, and by Sunday morning, the post was gone.
The White House hasn’t said why Trump shared it, which came amid a flurry of late-night posts that also included AI artwork and right-wing memes.
Are ‘medbeds’ real?
“Medbeds” are pure conspiracy fiction.
The idea — popular in QAnon circles — claims the U.S. government secretly controls alien-inspired pods that can heal any illness, regenerate organs, or even keep long-dead figures alive.
One faction believed former president John F. Kennedy was being kept alive on a medbed, the Daily Beast reported.
Experts say there’s zero evidence the technology exists.
Sara Aniano, a disinformation analyst at the Anti Defamation League’s Centre on Extremism, previously told the BBC: “It’s really hard to define something that doesn’t exist.
Some companies exploit the myth by selling expensive gadgets they hint are “medbed-like.”
Tesla BioHealing, for instance, markets a $19,999 “MedBed Generator” — essentially a metal canister for under a mattress — but admits it can’t diagnose or cure disease.
Online, New Age and holistic communities market and sell more rudimentary forms of medbed technology.
The sellers frequently make questionable and unsubstantiated claims regarding the products they offer.
The fake news report was presented by an AI version of Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara[/caption]
The AI-generated video promoted ‘medbeds’ that claimed to cure all diseases[/caption]
These include such as healing mats, which are bed-topper gadgets purportedly equipped with magnetic and infrared technology.
Customers have also told the FDA the devices do nothing.
Back in the UFO craze that swept America after World War II, some people began claiming the U.S. government had recovered alien spacecraft and copied their technology to create advanced healing machines.
The rumour said officials were hiding these cures and only letting powerful elites use them.
That idea fed into the broader belief — still debated today — that the government keeps secrets about UFOs.
When the QAnon movement appeared in 2017, some followers adopted the story and started believing Donald Trump would one day reveal this hidden miracle technology.
Trump shared the video on his Truth Social profile on Saturday, before removing it hours later[/caption]
