President Donald Trump has posted an artificially created video of himself on Saturday in which he was seen promoting a cure-all bed, which has roots in the darkest corners of internet conspiracy theories.
The video, which has since been removed, was intended to resemble a Fox News segment of the show, hosted by Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, and featured an AI-generated version of Trump claiming access to new medical technology. Meanwhile, this segment has never been shown on the network.
“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,” said a fake version of Trump.
The “medbed” conspiracy theory spread in QAnon forums is a modern expression of old beliefs in miracle cures and deep distrust of government and medicine.
When the UFO craze started in the early post-World War II era in America, there arose a wave of conspiracy theories that the US government had reverse-engineered the technology of alien ships that it had secretly recovered to develop advanced healing techniques.
This conspiracy theory that the government had a secret to this healing technology, only made cures available to selected elites, fueled a more commonly held, and unresolved opinion, that the government was not telling the truth about UFOs to the people.
The QAnon conspiracy theory movement originated in 2017, and there are a few people within these communities who have long believed that Trump would release this alleged secret miracle-curing technology.
In his deleted and uploaded artificial video, Trump is bragging about the advantages of the alleged therapy.
The fake Trump adds, “These facilities are safe, modern, and designed to restore every citizen to full health. This is a new era in American healthcare.”
Earlier versions of medbed technology have been marketed in New Age and holistic circles.
Such sellers frequently make questionable and untested claims regarding these products, such as healing mats and bed-topper machines that are allegedly impregnated with magnetic and infrared technology. These vendors have been known to set up at events where QAnon followers were present at CNN.
