Trump’s New Streaming Service Reality+ Is a ...

Nobody would fault you for not realizing that Donald Trump’s “know-how” firm, Trump Media and Know-how Group, has a streaming service. However now that you just do know that, aren’t you curious what’s on it? Fortunate for you, a recent report from Talking Points Memo dug into the content material over on Reality+ and it’s each bit as batshit as you had been most likely imaging.

Reality+ seems to be large on two issues: faith and conspiracy theories. That looks like it’s proper in keeping with the MAGA crowd’s hobbies, however these conspiracies appear to be much less of the “Trump had the election stolen from him” selection and extra of the “Jesus Christ was a secret alien” type. No, actually.

Per TPM, one of many movies on the platform known as “Conspiracy Chronicles,” and it throws some unbelievable claims on the market, together with the chance that Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna had been all from a unique planet. It additionally apparently claims that the Moon is “hollowed out” and serves as a base for aliens. Are they the identical aliens sending us our most revered non secular figures? Laborious to say. What is evident, per the movie, is that the US authorities has been masking all of this up. Fortunately, the man who runs the streaming service spewing these theories now has the facility to debrief all that data! Certainly he’ll, proper?

It’s solely one among many movies on the platform which are all in on out-there claims. One other, titled “Lizard Folks: Rulers of Time and House,” claims that there’s a race of lizard-like aliens who created people and developed non secular programs to regulate them. Frankly, it’s kinda wild how shut this stuff get to acknowledging some type of actuality (organized religion getting used as a means of control, for example) solely to swerve and blame it on aliens as an alternative of like, individuals who need power and wealth. There are precise explanations for this stuff, however the one approach for them to be digestible to a sure crowd is for these explanations to have some type of otherworldiness sprinkled on high.

Now, it could be truthful to say that each streaming service has its fair proportion of bonkers titles that find yourself obtainable via wide-reaching rights offers, and nobody is definitely watching them. And there are doubtless only a few folks watching Reality+ normally. However those that do are apparently consuming up these conspiracies. TPM reported that the “Lizard Folks” film was within the high 10 on the platform this week.

That programming doesn’t precisely appear in keeping with the “information, Christian content material, and family-friendly programming that’s uncancellable by Huge Tech” that Trump’s firm promised when it launched the streaming platform final yr. However perhaps the Bible had extra to say about serpents than simply that snake within the Backyard of Eden.