Trump Posts AI Video Which Promotes a Magic 'med Bed' That Can Cure Any Disease

Somebody created an AI video of Trump talking about this technology. It is a fake video. Trump, presumably because he saw people praising in the context of this video, decided to repost it to his Truth Social account. This was apparently too embarrassing for the administration, so he deleted it.

The actual story should be that Trump's brain is completely cooked and that he platforms the most insane conspiracy theories and straight up false information to his audience of millions and millions people. No different than an off-the-deep-end person reposting insane shit they've seen on Facebook, except that this person is the president.

"Med-beds" are a far-right-adjacent conspiracy theory. It posits that the rich and powerful have access to a secret medical technology that can heal any disease. Descriptions vary between Star-Trek-ish magic future tech on the one hand, vs new age woo magic crystal healing on the other. There are a variety of scams around this preying on the medically ignorant and desperate [1], one of which has even been posted on HN! [2]

The president's truth social account posted a fictional AI-generated Fox News segment purporting to announce that the president himself is making this "technology" broadly available. The segment includes deepfake of the president himself, which raises some alarming (although not, at this point, surprising) questions about who posted the video and why:

- Did the president himself post this or direct someone to post it? If so, does he think that it was real, despite the clips of him saying things he never said?

- Or, did someone post it without the president's authorization, and if so, did they believe it was real?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/far-right-mir...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050557

1. Either (a) Trump posted the video (by himself or through an agent acting at his direction), or (b) someone else posted the video without Trump's permission. If the latter, the POTUS does not control his "official" social media account (and you can ascertain the further implications as an exercise). If the former …

2. Trump either (a) knows the content of the video is false, or (b) he does not. If the latter, then the USA has a president who believes such nonsense and cannot distinguish reality from make-believe when communicating with the public and/or making policy decisions. If the former, then Trump is intentionally spreading falsehoods, in which case the USA has a president who is intentionally misleading the public about health matters.

He also recently said "aceto- … acetamin- … acetaminophen" use during pregnancy causes autism and has an administration railing against vaccines and cutting world health funding. So, we should all ask ourselves what conclusions we should be drawing and what ought to be done about this situation.