Wow! The best hospital experience a person could have!

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I was nearly dead from some horrible disease and I paid a bundle for Trump Vodka so was allowed to try out the new MedBed! Amazing! I went from dead to red with my support of Donald and being saved from death by the MedBed. It only took 5 minutes and both my hearing and 20/20 vision came back.

I have regular insurance, not government or Medicare so my payments for the first year are $0. The manufacturer, named XYZZY (of "I see no cave here" fame) does show in small print that the side effects include dementia, worms in brains, sudden disappearance and multiple fatal events but I've had none of these. But I did have three of the minor ones listed, loss of sense of smell, nausea and eyeballs falling out but who cares? Those eyeballs rolling around can see perfectly and the loss of smell means the vomiting doesn't bother me as much as it bothers other people.

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1. MaddowBlog-Why it was so deeply weird to see Trump amplify 'medbed' pseudoscience

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment that showed the president touting magical beds to the public. So why did he promote it?

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment featuring Trump touting magical “MedBed” technology. He then used to his platform to amplify the nonsensical pseudoscience.

Maybe now’s a good time to renew the whole “cognitive decline” conversation? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-29T18:39:10.323Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-medbed-pseudoscience-rcna234487

When it comes to science and medicine, Donald Trump’s track record is an embarrassment. We are, after all, talking about a president who endorsed injections of disinfectant as a possible Covid treatment five years ago.......

One day later, he helped introduce the public to the “MedBed” idea. Politico reported:

Yesterday on Truth Social, the president of the United States shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News (it wasn’t) in which an A.I.-generated, deep-faked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that ‘every American will soon receive their own MedBed card’ that will grant them access to new ‘MedBed hospitals.’

In all candor, I’ll confess that I’d never heard anything about this before the weekend, but evidently, there are fringe conspiracy theorists who believe there are magical, futuristic beds that can cure every disease, regrow missing limbs and even reverse the human aging process.

This is, of course, quite bonkers, though as the Politico report went on to note, “An offshoot of MedBed believers are QAnon devotees who insist the non-existent technology is being used to secretly keep John F. Kennedy Jr. alive.”.....

Incidents like these are not uncommon. Indeed, Democrats tried to make them a campaign issue ahead of Election Day 2024. In the race’s closing weeks, for example, Trump told a 12-minute story about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia, which came just days after the Republican decided to stop taking questions at a town hall event and instead swayed to music for 39 minutes.

A year later, Trump has promoted a “medbed” video for reasons that have not yet been explained.

As USA Today’s Rex Huppke summarized, after Trump twice suggested he was headed to Russia when he was actually going to Alaska, “That’s the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpa’s future.” Huppke similarly recently described the president as being “in obvious mental decline.”

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2. Here's Seth Meyers' hilarious take on the AI 'Med Bed' video

Link to tweet

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3. Wish I'd had a MedBed yesterday. After a few weeks of a backache that wouldn't go away, but finally

localized, I thought I had a kidney stone. Called the practice that is my primary care provider, and it seems they only treat people when they aren't sick. Not enough doctors. They suggested I go to an urgent care place. I went to the urgent care place, and they told me they had no imaging on site because the radiologist left and to go to the ER. I got to the ER about 11 a.m. and sat in the waiting room for 3 hours before getting in. Once in, the understaffed facility took about 3 hours to diagnose me, treat me and send me on my way with a prescription. Kidney infection. A MedBed would have taken care of that in a couple of minutes.

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4. If you had demanded a MedBed, this is what would have happened

1) You'd have been thrown out of the ER and gone home undiagnosed

2) The ER staff would have died laughing, figuring it was an idiot who thought Trump told the truth and the hospital would have had to hire a whole new staff.

3) You would have been invited to Mar-a-Lardo to meet the "master" and he would have promised MedBeds were coming soon to your hospital.

4) While waiting for the MedBeds to arrive, you would have died of the kidney infection while blaming the "libtards"for the delay.

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5. Or 5) Been committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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6. MaddowBlog-White House tries to defend Trump amplifying bizarre 'medbed' pseudoscience

Last edited Sat Oct 4, 2025, 09:40 AM - Edit history (1)

Karoline Leavitt had several days to come up with a reason why the president promoted a video about magic beds. She apparently couldn’t think of much.

White House officials had several days to come up with a reason why Trump promoted a bonkers "medbed" video.

Evidently, they couldn't think of much. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-02T21:29:24.933Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-tries-defend-trump-amplifying-bizarre-medbed-pseudoscience-rcna235212

To be sure, Trump has a habit of pushing weird stuff, but even by contemporary Republican standards, this was one of those moments when it seemed sensible to wonder if the sitting American president was OK. Indeed, if Joe Biden had done the same thing during his term, the political world’s conversation about the 25th Amendment would likely have been quite robust.

With this in mind, at a briefing on Wednesday, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt what, exactly, Trump was trying to communicate to the public.

Reporter: The president posted an AI deepfake of himself talking about medbeds. What was he trying to communicate?

Leavitt: He is transparent. He likes to share memes and videos. I think it is refreshing to have a president who is so open and honest.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-10-01T19:17:41.725Z

.....So, a few things.

First, no one has said Trump lacked the “right” to promote preposterous pseudoscience via social media. Rather, the question was why he did it and what his decision tells us about his state of mind.

Second, pushing bonkers videos via social media does not make an official “incredibly transparent.” If the White House wants to talk about Trump’s affinity for transparency, it can get back to us after the public gets access to his tax returns, the Epstein files and the video of border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepting a bag full of cash from undercover FBI agents.

Third, Leavitt’s suggestion that Trump promoting a “medbed” video is a reflection of his honesty is almost as weird as the fake Fox News segment itself.....

But Leavitt had several days to come up with something to say about this, and the fact that this was the line she settled on speaks volumes about just how bananas Trump’s move was.

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7. +50 for your incisive truthful add-on post to my sarcastic posting.