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...
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