MedBeds, MAGA, and the Great Big Fake Future

Disclaimer: If you think this is about medicine, it’s not. This is about power, bullshit, and an orange man who may honestly believe he’s living inside a rerun of Star Trek. This is a George Carlin-style rant. Fasten your medbelts.

So the mob boss in the Oval Office posts a shiny “news clip” on Truth Social. Lara Trump smiling, Trump promising “MedBed Hospitals” and a “MedBed card” to heal the sick, regrow limbs, cure everything but his own ego. Only problem? The video never aired. Fox News says nope. The clip is AI-generated, spliced, stitched, and pumped full of sci-fi pixie dust. And then—poof!—deleted after twelve hours like a drunk text at 3 a.m.

Now we’re left with two options, and neither one is comforting. Option one: he knew it was fake. This is another hit-and-run conspiracy drop—blast a lie into the bloodstream, delete the evidence, let the believers carry the infection. “They’re hiding the cures from you! I’ll set you free!” Option two: he didn’t know. He actually thinks he’s Captain Kirk promising warp-speed health care. This is the same guy who thought a Fox clip from 2020 was live footage and said “send in the troops” to a city that wasn’t burning. Cognitive decline meets AI deepfake, and now you’ve got Grandpa Space Emperor promising magic beds to the sick.

Either way, it’s dangerous. Because the people watching don’t care if it’s fake—they care that it feels real. They’re hurting, desperate, angry, and along comes Trump with a Q-flavored miracle: “Vote for me, and you get the secret tech.” It’s the old snake oil grift, now with high-def AI and a conspiracy-theory soundtrack.

And this is the guy who claims he’s “America First.” No, this is “reality last.” This is what happens when you hand the most powerful office in the world to a man who thinks Photoshop is evidence and memes are policy. He’s not curing cancer. He’s curing the boundary between truth and lies. He’s turning the United States into a Star Trek cosplay convention where he’s the captain, you’re the redshirt, and the medbed is just offstage if you clap hard enough.

So yeah, maybe he knows it’s fake, maybe he doesn’t. Either way, it’s the same endgame: plant the lie, erase the post, leave the conspiracy blooming in people’s heads. Promise miracles, deliver chaos. And if you believe the medbeds are real, you probably also believe Trump’s got the best words. Here’s one you should remember: bullshit.