“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said President Donald Trump managed to fall for “the most cuckoo banana pants health flim-flam on the entire internets” when he shared ― then deleted ― a wild AI video over the weekend.
The post was a fake news report ostensibly from Lara Trump, who is his daughter-in-law, and included a bogus announcement from Trump himself about “medbeds.”
Those are supposedly miraculous (and nonexistent) devices that can cure just about any disease, reverse damage and even regrow limbs.
“Well, we all know that’s not true,” Colbert said. “If the government had the power to regrow limbs, Trump’s hand wouldn’t look like a banana you forgot in your backpack.”
Trump has been using makeup on his hand for months to mask bruising, which the White House has said is from frequent handshakes and aspirin use.
The fact that Trump even shared the video in the first place left Colbert baffled.
“The president of the United States posted an AI video of a Fox News report that never happened, featuring a fake version of himself, saying things he never said about a magic foot-growing-back body pod that does not exist, all reported by an AI anchor of his real daughter-in-law,” he summarized. “After watching that, I hope they have medbeds so I can regrow my brain back!”
Colbert emphasized how “crazy” that is.
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“It really seems like Trump saw the AI video of himself and thought it was real,” he said.
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