‘Doctor Trump’ Cures Celebrity Critics of ‘TDS’ in Bizarre Late-Night AI Video Post by Prez

(Screengrab via Truth Social)

President Donald Trump leaned into one of his favorite political taunts on Wednesday night, sharing a bizarre AI-generated video depicting himself as a doctor treating celebrity critics for what he calls “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

The roughly 90-second clip, posted to Trump’s Truth Social account, comes with fake testimonials from Hollywood stars including The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, comedian Rosie O’Donnell, and Hollywood actors Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts, and Edward Norton.

The video opens with an AI-generated version of the president, dressed as a physician, asking viewers: “Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with TDS?”

“The symptoms can be relentless. Fortunately, I’m Doctor Trump, and I have a treatment plan,” the AI version of Trump says before introducing a series of celebrity “patients.”

The fabricated De Niro says: “I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, constantly angry… I made everyone miserable around me.”

An AI-generated Roberts follows by claiming: “I feel like I’ve aged 20 years in the last two years,” adding that she had begun to “worry about her future.”

The video also features an AI version of O’Donnell, who says she has been “suffering for over a decade,” and Goldberg, who claims she believed she was a “lost cause.”

Norton and actor John Leguizamo, both outspoken Trump critics, also appear in the spoof. Only in the video’s closing moments does the AI-generated president reveal his tongue-in-cheek “prescription.”

“Turn off fake news,” he says. “Say your prayers and, if you ever feel anxious, just have a Diet Coke like me and you’re gonna see a remarkable difference in your life.”

Trump has frequently accused political opponents and media critics of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a phrase he has used repeatedly throughout his political career. Earlier this year, he even suggested from the Oval Office that he had heard it “actually is a disease.”

Several of the celebrities featured in Trump’s video have been outspoken critics of the president. De Niro has called Trump an “existential threat to our freedoms and security,” while Goldberg said during the 2024 campaign that Trump wanted to be a “dictator for life.”

O’Donnell and the president have publicly feuded for two decades, and Roberts narrated a pro-Kamala Harris voter outreach ad during the 2024 presidential campaign, when she ran against Trump.

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