Trump Under Fire For Bizarre AI Post Promoting ‘Medbed’ Conspiracy Theory

U.S. President Donald Trump has come under fire for sharing and then deleting an AI-generated video of himself promoting “medbed” hospitals, which do not exist.

Conspiracy theorists, including those in the QAnon movement, believe that medbeds are a miracle cure to all ailments and can regenerate organs.

Believers of the theory claim that the government is in possession of the technology and is withholding it from the masses. The theory has been widely debunked.

In a Saturday post on Truth Social, now deleted, Trump shared a fake Fox News segment featuring his daughter-in-law Lara Trump.

In the clip, an AI-generated Trump announced that all Americans would be granted access to new medbed hospitals, with a limited number of “medbed cards” released.

“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” Trump said. “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.”

It is not clear if Trump or someone else in his team posted the clip to Truth Social, and the White House has not issued a statement on the AI footage.

Following Trump’s post, websites appeared purporting to sell Trump medbed cards for up to $700.

Senior fellow at Media Matters Matthew Gertz said Trump should be forced to explain why he posted the clip.

“If ‘medbed’ technology were real, it would be the greatest medical advance in generations. Trump should have to explain why he suggested it was using the channel he makes major policy announcements, and why he deleted it after the fact,” Gertz wrote on X.

Media analyst Brian Stelter told CNN that Trump had likely seen medbed conspiracy theories posted on Truth Social by his fanbase.

“I think with everything involving the president, it always comes back to his sources of information,” Stelter said. “Where is he getting information about the world?”

“When he posts something about secret alien technology like this, where is he getting it from?”

Stelter added, “Sometimes, as in this AI-generated video case, he’s [Trump] just seeing it from random users of Truth Social.”

Other social media users described Trump’s post as “unhinged” and questioned whether Trump believed the conspiracy theory.

“I know there’s a lot going on, but the next time Trump takes questions, I hope someone asks why he shared—and deleted—an AI slop video touting ‘medbed hospitals’ that will instantly cure illnesses,” one user wrote. “Did he think it was funny? Or real? Did he think it was a speech he'd given?”

Another added, “The President of the United States is actively contributing to chaos and confusion here, by posting an AI video on medbeds, a science fiction medical thing that doesn’t exist, but he claims it’s real. Imagine if Joe Biden did this.”

“The MedBeds post needs to be talked about. It is a level of insanity Trump has never gotten to before and it needs to be called out,” a third user posted.

Trump’s AI post on providing Americans with medbed cards comes amid fears that funding for vital medical programs in the U.S. could be slashed by billions.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in August that Medicare could see $491 billion in cuts from 2027 to 2034 if Congress does not act to block automatic spending reductions, AP reported.

The CBO and analysts also project that federal spending on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) could be cut by $1.02 trillion by 2034 under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The cuts could lead to millions of Americans losing Medicaid coverage, particularly low-income adults, children, and people with disabilities, and put additional strain on state health systems.