CNN anchor Jake Tapper has expressed his bewilderment after Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video promoting a conspiracy theory about the existence of futuristic all-healing technology.
The 79-year-old president sparked widespread concern and criticism after he shared, and then deleted, a video of himself in a fake Fox News broadcast promising all Americans would have access to “medbeds.”
For the uninitiated, medbeds are a nonexistent type of medical pod that QAnon followers and other fringe conspiracy theorists believe can cure everything from cancer to regrow missing limbs.
Tapper played a section of the AI clip, in which Fox News host Laura Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, announces some “breaking” news that Trump is launching America’s “first medbed hospitals and a nation