Governor serves Trump a dose of reality over bizarre Portland military deployment

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's bizarre impression that the city of Portland is a war zone that requires U.S. military occupation, and her frustrating efforts to dispel Trump of this wrongheaded notion.

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0:00.0	really happy to have you here. You know, it is a weird time in the United States of America right now.
0:05.3	And I know you know that and I definitely know it too, but I feel like, you know, sometimes
0:11.0	you just have to like stop and smell the weirdness. Just like, note for a moment how utterly
0:18.6	strange things are right now, particularly with the government.
0:22.4	For example, the very weird pro-Trump far-right conspiracy theory world has long fantasized
0:29.6	that Donald Trump has magic beds.
0:33.3	Do you know about this?
0:34.6	They think that Trump has magic beds, like a bed, like, you know, you make your bed, that kind of bed.
0:42.0	And the theory is, if you lie down in one of these magic beds, the magic bed will cure any disease that you have that will fix everything that's wrong with you.
0:50.5	To the point where even if you have lost a limb somehow, if you have had to have
0:54.9	had something amputated, if you lay down in one of Trump's magic beds, you will instantly
1:01.6	regrow that limb that you lost. Magic medical beds. It is sort of short-handed as the medbed right-wing conspiracy theory.
1:16.0	Well, this weekend, the sitting president of the United States posted a video on his social
1:20.7	media. He reposted a video somebody else had made that was an AI-generated fake video of him, the president, appearing on Fox News,
1:31.2	announcing a new federal program in which everyone was finally going to get one of these med beds.
1:38.0	All Americans would get medbed cards so we could all go to med bed hospitals, so we could
1:43.9	lay down on one of these magic
1:46.0	beds, be instantly cured of all of our diseases, grow back any of our missing limbs, and probably
1:51.4	live forever. Because as the conspiracy theory has it, liberals don't want people to have access to the magic beds, but Trump does.
2:04.5	And so Trump, as president, is now letting everyone use the magic beds. He posted that video on his
2:12.1	social media this weekend. I mean, this is one of the weirder conspiracy theories on the pro-Trump,
2:17.8	right? This is like, right there along with the lizard people thing, and the earth is flat, and people
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