No one would fault you for not knowing that Donald Trump’s “technology” company, Trump Media and Technology Group, has a streaming service. But now that you do know that, aren’t you curious what is on it? Lucky for you, a recent report from Talking Points Memo dug into the content over on Truth+ and it is every bit as batshit as you were probably imaging.
Truth+ appears to be big on two things: religion and conspiracy theories. That seems like it is right in line with the MAGA crowd’s hobbies, but these conspiracies seem to be less of the “Trump had the election stolen from him” variety and more of the “Jesus Christ was a secret alien” kind. No, really.
Per TPM, one of the films on the platform is called “Conspiracy Chronicles,” and it throws some incredible claims out there, including the possibility that Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna were all from a different planet. It also apparently claims that the Moon is “hollowed out” and serves as a base for aliens. Are they the same aliens sending us our most revered religious figures? Hard to say. What is clear, per the film, is that the US government has been covering all of this up. Luckily, the guy who runs the streaming service spewing these theories now has the power to debrief all that information! Surely he will, right?
It’s only one of many films on the platform that are all in on out-there claims. Another, titled “Lizard People: Rulers of Time and Space,” claims that there is a race of lizard-like aliens who created humans and developed religious systems to control them. Frankly, it’s kinda wild how close these things get to acknowledging some form of reality (organized religion being used as a means of control, for instance) only to swerve and blame it on aliens instead of like, people who desire power and wealth. There are actual explanations for these things, but the only way for them to be digestible to a certain crowd is for those explanations to have some sort of otherworldiness sprinkled on top.
Now, it would be fair to say that every streaming service has its fair share of bonkers titles that end up available through wide-reaching rights deals, and no one is actually watching them. And there are likely very few people watching Truth+ in general. But those who do are apparently eating up these conspiracies. TPM reported that the “Lizard People” movie was in the top 10 on the platform this week.
That programming doesn’t exactly seem in line with the “news, Christian content, and family-friendly programming that is uncancellable by Big Tech” that Trump’s company promised when it launched the streaming platform last year. But maybe the Bible had more to say about serpents than just that snake in the Garden of Eden.
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