Overview

• On Sept. 27, the president’s Truth Social account shared an AI-generated video styled as a Fox News segment promising “medbed hospitals” and national “medbed cards,” then deleted it hours later.
• Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said he “saw the video and posted it and then took it down,” calling his online sharing “quite refreshing.”
• Fox News confirmed no such segment ever aired, and fact-checkers identified earlier versions on Instagram and TikTok posted before the Truth Social share.
• The “medbeds” narrative originates in QAnon-adjacent circles and commercial grifts, and vendors like Tesla BioHealing have received FDA warnings for unproven medical claims.
• Researchers report the repost energized believers on Truth Social and warn it could spur opportunistic schemes, even as archived copies continue circulating across platforms.