President Trump on Thursday shared an AI-generated video on social media in which he is depicted as a medical doctor prescribing a treatment plan for “TDS” as deepfakes of several of his celebrity critics lament the disease’s effect on their lives.
“TDS” stands for “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which the president and his followers often say that people who forcefully denounce his actions or policies have. It is not a real medical condition.
“The symptoms can be relentless,” declares AI Trump with a stethoscope around his neck and “Donald J. Trump, M.D.” embroidered above the chest pocket of his white lab coat. “Let’s hear what some of my patients have to say.”
Approximated AI versions of actors Rosie O’Donnell, John Leguizamo, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Norton, Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts then testify that their opposition to Trump aged them “20 years in the last two years” and “made everyone” around them “miserable.”
“I really wasn’t sure I could help some of these people — they were so far gone, I wasn’t really sure,” the president’s AI doppelgänger interjects. But “fortunately, I’m Dr. Trump, and I have a treatment plan.”
Dr. Trump then recommends turning off the news, saying one’s prayers and drinking Diet Coke “just like me.”
“You’re gonna see a remarkable difference in your life,” he promises.
In April, the president posted an AI image that depicted him as Jesus healing the sick, with fireworks, eagles and fighter jets filling the sky behind him. He deleted the image after some of his own supporters spoke out against it, though he insisted at the time that he “viewed that as a picture of me being a doctor.”
Rather than a stethoscope and a lab coat, the image showed Trump wearing a long white robe with a red shawl draped over his shoulders and light emanating from his palms.
In February, Trump shared an AI video portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.
