The Daily Populous Monday June 2nd, 2025 night edition
Authored by rollingstone.com and submitted by rollingstone

Donald Trump reposted a baseless conspiracy theory claiming Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced with a robot clone.

The president shared a post from a user on Truth Social late Saturday that alleged: “There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. #Democrats don’t know the difference.”

Similar unfounded theories about Biden have been floating around the internet for years. An eight-hour Facebook video posted in 2021 claimed that “Biden is computer generated.” Others have more recently purported that Biden was replaced with artificial intelligence.

The Truth Social account that posted the allegation that Biden is a robot has dabbled in other conspiracy theory lies, including that the 2020 election was “stolen” as part of a “military-grade coup” and that Trump has saved the world “from the Satan Worshipping Deep State (DS) Global Elites.”

The president’s supporters encouraged the conspiracy in the replies, sharing side-by-side photos of Biden that they say are evidence he was replaced by a lookalike. One user shared a video that claimed “Joe Biden’s eyes changed from blue to black.”

This is not the first conspiracy theory Trump has dabbled in, although it may be one of the weirdest. Trump has relentlessly — and falsely — claimed the 2020 election was “rigged.” He alleged that former president Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. (and then falsely blamed Hillary Clinton for starting the birther controversy). And he has said the physical attack against Paul Pelosi, husband of former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, was staged. During the 2024 campaign, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance repeated fabricated claims that Haitian immigrants were eating pets. These theories have all been proven untrue or have zero credible evidence to back their assertions.

Members of Trump’s administration have also pushed conspiracy theory lies into the mainstream. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has shared debunked claims, including that vaccines cause autism and that condensation emitted by airplanes is actually made up of harmful chemicals (a.k.a. chemtrails). These high-profile endorsements have arguably led to more people believing in them, including state legislators in Louisiana who recently voted to ban chemtrails. Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel has frequently endorsed the beliefs of QAnon, a specious conspiracy theory that alleges the U.S. government is run by a “Deep State” pedophile ring of Satan worshipers.

Affectionate-Chart-5 on June 1st, 2025 at 14:41 UTC »

And there are people out there following him who actually believe that 🙄

grey_fr on June 1st, 2025 at 14:40 UTC »

And now the robot has prostate cancer, stage 9 (that's when your motherboard is affected and it has metastasized to your peripherals through the drivers)

Smithy2232 on June 1st, 2025 at 14:36 UTC »

Trump is mentally ill and a jerk. Can't believe he's our president.