The Comrade Courant

Trump’s AI Playbook: Deepfakes, Conspiracy, and the Weaponization of Desperation From fabricated Obama arrests to phantom “medbeds,” Donald Trump has turned AI-generated disinformation into a tool of political warfare—and predatory grift. In an era where reality can be convincingly simulated with a few lines of code, Donald Trump has emerged as the most powerful practitioner of synthetic media as political strategy. His use of AI isn’t about innovation—it’s about narrative control. Whether sharing deepfakes of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office or promoting fictional “miracle cure” devices like the so-called “medbed,” Trump leverages generative AI to dominate attention, stoke outrage, and exploit the very real vulnerabilities of a fractured society. A fake AI-generated clip of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office as Donald Trump laughs. (Screenshot/Truth Social/AI) The Deepfake Surge: From Absurdity to Allega...

What is a Medbed? How a Conspiracy Theory Preys on the Desperate From Trump's AI video to QAnon believers, the medbed scam exploits healthcare desperation, and often the most vulnerable among us. September 2025 – You've probably seen the buzz. Maybe it was a blurry video in a forgotten corner of the internet, or perhaps it was the surreal news that, over the weekend of September 28, 2025, President Donald Trump shared and promptly deleted an AI-generated video promoting this very thing. Suddenly, "medbeds" are trending. But let's be clear: this isn't a moment of medical breakthrough. It's a perfect, depressing storm of late-stage capitalism, where the brutal failure of the for-profit healthcare system collides with cynical political grift and pure science fiction, all packaged to exploit the sick, the desperate, and the disenfranchised. This is the story of how a miracle cure that doesn't exist became a trending topic, and what it tells us a...