Donald Trump is now claiming Joe Biden was secretly killed and replaced by clones running the country

President Donald Trump has now descended into the realm of science fiction with his latest conspiracy theory.

Apparently, the man who once suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID-19 now believes Joe Biden was “executed” in 2020 and replaced by an army of clones and robots. One has to wonder if Trump gets his intelligence briefings from reruns of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” or perhaps late-night YouTube rabbit holes. This comes from the same visionary who recently warned that declining birth rates would lead to the collapse of civilization—a curious concern from someone who seems determined to make Earth as uninhabitable as possible through climate policy rollbacks. Perhaps Trump fears there won’t be enough humans left to appreciate his gold-plated everything.

Late Saturday night, in what appears to have been another episode of his infamous “executive time,” Trump took to Truth Social to share a post claiming Biden had been secretly assassinated in 2020. According to this totally reasonable and not-at-all-bonkers theory, Americans have been governed for years by “robotic engineered soulless mindless entities” masquerading as Joe Biden. Which, if true, would make Biden’s occasional gaffes the most sophisticated AI glitches in history.

To be clear, there is zero evidence—none, nada, zilch—that Joe Biden was assassinated or replaced by clones. This is a conspiracy theory born from the darkest corners of the internet, where logic goes to die. But the fact that Trump, a man who still commands the loyalty of millions, is amplifying such drivel is deeply concerning. 

One of the reasons this conspiracy theory gained traction is because it piggybacks on real-life concerns about Biden’s health. The president, now 80, was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, a fact his team disclosed openly. While Biden has assured the public he’s undergoing treatment and feels optimistic, his age and health have been a point of attack for Republicans. 

Trump, of course, has been quick to exploit this. He’s questioned Biden’s mental acuity, criticized his use of an autopen to sign documents, and now, apparently, decided that the only logical explanation for Biden’s continued functionality is that he’s secretly a robot.