Trump Posted—and Quickly Deleted—This WILD Video

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Episode: Trump Posted—and Quickly Deleted—This WILD Video
Date: September 29, 2025
Hosts: Sam Stein (Managing Editor at The Bulwark), Will Sommer

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Overview

This episode dives into a bizarre and quickly deleted social media post by Donald Trump, in which he shared an AI-generated video touting a sci-fi conspiracy theory: the imminent rollout of “med beds” that supposedly cure all ailments. Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down the med bed conspiracy, how fringe ideas enter mainstream politics, the reaction from QAnon communities, and why Trump would interact with such content.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Bizarre Trump Med Bed Video

• Trump posted (then deleted) a video with an AI-generated Trump and an AI voice impersonating Lara Trump, announcing “med bed” hospitals and national “med bed cards.”
• The video, which was posted on Truth Social, depicted these devices as government healthcare breakthroughs.
• Stein’s reaction: "You can't rank the weird posts that Trump put up because there's so many of them, but this one's like, this one would probably be at the top." [01:24]

2. What Are ‘Med Beds’? (02:18)

• Will Sommer explains med beds as a fringe conspiracy: a device, like a sci-fi tanning bed, that can cure every disease—even regrow limbs or keep JFK alive.
  • "Maybe aliens gave it to us. And so this idea that Trump is promoting med beds is just truly crazy." [02:43]
• Even most QAnon believers don’t buy into med beds; it’s farther out than typical conspiracy circles.

3. Origins of the Med Bed Conspiracy (04:04)

• Med beds trace back to “Nesara/Gesara”—a decades-old conspiracy about secret, world-changing legislation offering utopia: debt abolition, cures for all diseases, alien technology withheld by a secret cabal.

4. Trump’s Motives and Signals to the Base (05:06)

• Hosts speculate on why Trump would post such content:
  • Will Sommer: "It looks like something that he would just, like, be scrolling through or someone would send to him and he'd go, oh, yeah, this look like something I'd repost." [05:08]
• Trump’s repeated flirtation with conspiracy theories and QAnon-adjacent content is noted, sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental.

5. QAnon’s Reaction (05:53)

• QAnon influencers excitedly interpreted the post as a “signal” that the long-promised med beds were coming and the “cabal” was being dismantled.
• Sommer notes: "The QAnon accounts I follow, they're like, oh my gosh, Trump's finally talking about med beds…Trump must be finally taking down the cabal if we're going to get all these med beds." [05:56]
• Some followers truly believe Trump will soon cure cancer and other diseases, creating a perilous false hope.
  • Will Sommer: "…there are people out there who really believe they have these ailments and they believe that the med beds or some other kind of all healing technology is right around the corner." [06:59]

6. Logical Contradictions and Irrationality (06:20)

• Sam Stein challenges the internal logic: If med beds exist and the “cabal” controls them, why hasn’t (supposedly deceased) Joe Biden been cured?
• Will Sommer, half-joking: "Maybe the aliens didn't want to give it to him? I'm not sure." [06:48]

7. Comparison to Past Trump Conspiracies (08:03)

• Will Sommer compares this to Trump's past outlandish statements, like suggesting people inject bleach:
  • "It's kind of up there with when he, you know, was telling people to inject bleach." [08:03]
• Notes Trump’s history of vaguely signaling support for QAnon conspiracies via social media.

8. Scams and the Industry Around Med Beds (08:52)

• Sommer highlights there are already scam companies marketing “med beds” as healing devices, taking advantage of vulnerable people.
• “There are companies that currently exist. They have like, motel rooms and it's like, come to this hotel…it's a med bed…and it's supposed to heal you.” [08:55]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Sam Stein on the absurdity:
  “I’m trying to think of Trump ever doing something this wild, where, like, it’s just a totally random conspiracy he just injects into the bloodstream.” [07:33]
• Will Sommer on conspiracy logic:
  “This is crazy, even by Trump standards…In QAnon world, a lot of people are like, that’s not real, they don’t believe in med beds. So this is like the fringes of even QAnon.” [02:20]
• Sam Stein, flabbergasted:
  “Come on, this can't be real. I mean, I guess it is real. I guess people do believe this shit.” [06:51]
• Will Sommer on conspiracy impact:
  “…there are people out there who really believe they have these ailments…once [Trump] gets the cabal, I'm going to be saved. So, I mean, this is ultimately, there are people who are going to see this and say, oh, hooray. Amazing. And you know, obviously Trump is giving them false hope.” [07:10]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:18] Introduction to Trump’s wild “med bed” video
• [02:18] Explanation of the med bed conspiracy
• [03:07] Audio excerpt from the AI-generated video
• [04:04] Origins: Nesara/Gesara and pop culture influences
• [05:06] How and why Trump engages with conspiracies
• [05:53] QAnon follower reaction and the “signal” theory
• [06:20] Logical contradictions in the narrative
• [07:33] Comparing this to previous Trump conspiracy interactions
• [08:52] Scam companies cashing in on med bed fake science

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Tone and Takeaways

• The hosts are incredulous, amused, and exasperated in equal measure, underlining both the absurdity and the risks of major politicians sharing fringe conspiracies.
• The episode mixes gallows humor (“get in there, get a tan” [08:44]) with genuine concern about the spread and real-life impact of disinformation.

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For those who missed it:
This episode is a whirlwind tour of how a fringe internet fantasy made its way, unchecked, onto Trump’s Truth Social—and briefly, into national news. The conversation unpacks why that matters, for both the integrity of public discourse and the safety of the people taken in by such false hopes.

Transcript

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[Sam Stein]

All right. Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bulwark. I'm here. My buddy, Will Summer. It's Sunday. It's like 2pm we both have kids. We're in the nap zone, but instead of resting, we're doing YouTube because the.

[Will Sommer]

Cats away, the mice will. YouTube. Yes.

[Sam Stein]

That's this window that we need to, you know, prioritize napping. And we're not doing that because we love YouTube and our audience so much. To subscribe to the feed for this we're here to talk about. I mean, look, you can't rank the weird posts that Trump put up because there's so many of them, but this one's like, this one would probably be at the top. Our president put up a post last night. Was going to break it down, but I'm going to try to describe it. It was a post of a fake Trump, an AI generated Trump. A new segment being narrated by an AI generated Laura Trump, in which the. The fake Trump promotes a magic med bed that can cure any disease and unveils that it's going to be introduced, I guess, as some sort of, like, government medical policy. Trump posted this last night. It was so random. He put on True Social and then he apparently deleted it. So I guess someone might have, like, told him that it was super weird. But I. I will admit, well, I had never heard of med beds. I had no idea what it was about. So can you explain to me what. What the deal is here?

[Will Sommer]

Yeah, you got to open your eye to what's really going on. Yeah. So. So med beds. I mean, this is. This is crazy, even by Trump standards. I mean, this is like in QAnon world, a lot of people are like, that's not Real, they don't believe in med beds. So this is like the fringes of even QAnon. So basically, Med beds are this idea that there is, like this technology that's kind of like a tanning bed called a med bed. And if you get in it, it'll cure cancer, autism, it'll cure basically any ailment. You could have it. It could regrow limbs. Maybe JFK has been kept alive by staying in a med bed secretly. So this is like the ultimate technology. Maybe aliens gave it to us. And so this idea that Trump is promoting, med beds is just truly crazy.

[Sam Stein]

All right, let's watch the video so that people can get a sense of how stupid this is.

[AI Generated Trump Voice]

Breaking now. President Donald J. Trump has announced a historic new health care system. The launch of America's first med bed hospitals, and a national med bed card for every citizen.

[AI Generated Narrator Voice]

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, these facilities are safe, modern, and designed to restore every citizen to full health and strength. This is the beginning of a new era in American health care.

[AI Generated Trump Voice]

In this first phase, only a limited number of med bed cards will be released. Registration details will be announced very soon.

[Sam Stein]

All right, so they look like hyperbolic chambers, right?

[Will Sommer]

Hyperbaric chambers.

[Sam Stein]

Hyperbaric chambers. Hyperbaric chambers. Excuse me, there is hyperbole around this, but they're not hyperbolic. The idea here, where did it originate? Like, how would it possibly find its way to Trump?

[Will Sommer]

So the origins of med beds are kind of murky even for me. So basically, we can look back at this thing called Nessera Gesara. There's this idea for decades that, that the government just briefly hang with me, that the government passed this legislation called Nassera that would have abolished all debts, given everyone a house, abolished all diseases, and. And that this secret technology exists and that it's being held back by the cabal. So that's kind of the origins of this idea of this, like all healing technology. More recently, it's been packaged up in the idea of a bed. You know, some people have noticed that this is a plot point in both the Aliens franchise movie Prometheus as well as the Matt Damon movie Elysium, where.

[Sam Stein]

He goes up into the outer space and there's all the health clinics and everyone gets cured, all the rich people get cured.

[Will Sommer]

So it seems like maybe it's coming from there. I mean, there's not like one particular Origin. But if you look like a lot of conspiracy theorists, I mentioned QAnon, but others as well will just sort of make these references to, oh, I can't wait to get a med bed.

[Sam Stein]

Why would this get on Trump's radar?

[Will Sommer]

I really have no idea. I mean, it looks like kind of something that he would just, like, be scrolling through or someone would send to him and he'd go, oh, yeah, this look like something I'd repost. It's got Lara Trump. It's got me, you know, click.

[Sam Stein]

We don't think that he thought it was real. I mean, it's him.

[Will Sommer]

It's also this, like, giant entitlement program. The government's going to open all these med bed hospitals, so surely he would remember if he was opening a chain of med bed hospitals. Right, but. But, you know, I do think it also kind of dovetails with, like, the we found a cure for autism stuff last week. I think there's this idea that he, like, really wants some big, like, breakthrough to announce.

[Sam Stein]

Yeah, I suppose. But, like, are people noticing this in the QAnon corners of the universe? And do they take this as like a. I mean, they take everything like a signal, right, that something's about to happen. But is this getting picked up?

[Will Sommer]

Yeah, they got really excited about it. I mean, you know, the QAnon accounts, I follow, they're like, oh, my gosh, Trump's finally talking about med beds. Because the key thing here to understand is that not only is there this technology supposedly that exists, but also that the Cabal has been holding it back from us, Bill and her Clinton, Tom Hanks, et cetera. And so that means that, you know, Trump must be finally taking down the Cabal if we're going to get all these med beds. So there's that aspect to it, too. And if you look at the comments.

[Sam Stein]

I'm sorry, can I stop you for a second?

[Will Sommer]

Yeah.

[Sam Stein]

Isn't there something inherently contradictory about, like, saying there's a huge cabal out there that owns these med beds and also that Joe Biden is dead? Like, wouldn't Joe Biden get a med bed?

[Will Sommer]

Well, you know, and I mean, that dovetails with adrenochrome, you know, all these things the Cabal had to stay alive? You know, I don't think there's a ton of internal.

[Sam Stein]

Do they have. Do they have an explanation for why Joe Biden has not been treated with med beds? And whatever you, Cabrina Cole, or whatever.

[Will Sommer]

The hell you just said, maybe the aliens didn't want to give it to Him? I'm not sure.

[Sam Stein]

Come on, this can't be real. I mean, I guess it is real. I guess people do believe this shit. But, well, if you look at the.

[Will Sommer]

Comments, you know, before Trump deleted this post, there were all these comments that people were like, yeah, yeah. And you know, I will say there is also this, like, it's hard for, I think people to imagine this, but there are people out there who really believe they have these ailments and they believe that the med beds or some other kind of all healing technology is right around the corner. You know, I've been to QAnon conferences where people will say, you know, I have cancer. I can't get it treated because of my insurance. But the good news is Trump's right about to release the cure for cancer. So, you know, once he gets the cabal, I'm going to be saved. So, I mean, this is ultimately, there are people who are going to see this and say, oh, hooray. Amazing. And you know, obviously Trump is giving them false hope.

[Sam Stein]

Jesus Christ, man. I don't know how you follow this stuff. Like, it's impossible. This is the first I'd ever heard of med beds. And it came vis a vis the social media feed of the President of the United States. I'm just gonna say, is it like I'm trying to think of Trump ever doing something this wild where like it's so out of, out of the blue, like it's just a totally random conspiracy that he just injects into the bloodstream.

[Will Sommer]

I mean, it's kind of up there with when he, you know, was telling people to inject bleach.

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Then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can.

[Will Sommer]

Do something like that, things like that? I mean, that's true. I mean, we know on Truth Social he's like pretty regularly signaling to QAnon inadvertently or not. You know, he'll post pictures of himself with like a Q on it, QAnon slogans. But this, it's pretty rare for him to just come out and say, hey, this alien technology, we're about to roll it out, get ready.

[Sam Stein]

And to do it through a bizarre AI video featuring his daughter in law is like the most random element of this too. Okay, well, I'm, I'm ready for a med bed. And if it happens, yeah, get in, get a tan.

[Will Sommer]

You know, we'll get in there, get.

[Sam Stein]

Is there a way to like get ahead of the trend? Like, is there a company I should be investing in. Is there, like, a place I should go in case this is a real thing?

[Will Sommer]

Well, this is an excellent point, Sam. And, you know, I should expect you're looking for the investment opportunity here. There are. This is a pretty common scam. There are companies that currently exist. They have like, motel rooms and it's like, come to this hotel, this bed, it's a med bed, and you get it and it's supposed to heal you. So that, that's another aspect of.

[Sam Stein]

Yeah, you know, you could see some company being like, we're working on med bag technology. Trump just, you know, hinted at it and try to get juice up the stock that way. I would not advise doing that, though. All right, well, thanks so much, man. I appreciate it. Keep tracking this weird shit. We need you.

[Will Sommer]

It's more relevant than ever. Yeah.

[Sam Stein]

Everyone, thank you for watching. Appreciate it. Get your med bed and take care.

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