President Trump shared the AI-generated video on social media on Thursday. The video depicts Trump as a doctor prescribing a treatment plan for TDS and features deepfakes featuring Trump’s prominent critics lamenting the impact the disease has had on their lives.
TDS stands for “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and President Trump and his supporters often say it affects people who forcefully criticize his actions and policies. It’s not an actual medical condition.
AI Trump wears a stethoscope around his neck, has “Donald J. Trump, MD” emblazoned above the breast pocket of his white coat, and declares, “The symptoms can be relentless.” “Let’s listen to what my patients have to say.”
Approximate AI versions of actors Rosie O’Donnell, John Leguizamo, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Norton, Robert De Niro, and Julia Roberts testified that their opposition to Trump had aged them “20 years over the past two years” and made “everyone” around them “miserable.”
“We weren’t really sure we could help some of these people. They were far away, so we weren’t really sure,” the president’s AI doppelgänger interjected. But, “Luckily, I’m Dr. Trump and I have a treatment plan.”
So Dr. Trump recommends turning off the news, saying a prayer, and drinking a Diet Coke “like I do.”
“You’ll see amazing changes in your life,” he promises.
In April, the president posted an AI image depicting Jesus healing the sick, with fireworks, eagles and fighter jets filling the sky behind him. He removed the image after some of his supporters protested, but claimed at the time that he “thought it depicted me as a doctor.”
Instead of a stethoscope or a white coat, the image showed Trump wearing a long white robe, a red shawl draped over his shoulders and a light emitting from his palm.
In February, President Trump shared an AI video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as monkeys.
