TPM: President Trump's Media Company Is Offering Movies About 'Lizard People' And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories

[Dennis Donovan]

TPM - President Trump’s Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories

Among other things, movies on the Truth+ streaming service have suggested Jesus Christ and Buddha are aliens.

By Hunter Walker
May 6, 2025 10:16 a.m.

Less than two minutes into the movie, the narrator makes a shocking claim.

“The evidence we are about to present to you has the potential to rewrite thousands of years of human history. It will present evidence that suggests ancient serpent or lizard-like aliens came to earth thousands of years ago,” the narrator says. “We’ll also present evidence that these ancient aliens are still among us today.”

This bizarre narrative echoes a paranoia about shadowy reptilians that has persisted for decades on the absolute fringes of the conspiracy theory movement. However, in this case, the story of “serpent or lizard-like aliens” who are secretly wielding influence over the human race isn’t coming from some pamphlet or dark corner of the internet. It is among the most watched films available for streaming on a service run by a multibillion dollar media company that is owned by the President of the United States.

When they launched a streaming service last year, President Trump’s business partners at the Trump Media and Technology Group announced it would be focused on “news, Christian content, and family friendly programming that is uncancellable by Big Tech.” Yet this supposed haven for young viewers and wholesome Christian fare is also home to “Lizard People: Rulers of Time and Space,” a bizarre hour-long movie that presents claims that there is a race of “serpent-like aliens who created humans and the religious systems used to control them.” As of this writing, Trump’s company is marketing this to viewers as a “documentary” — and it’s not the only one on their platform filled with shocking statements linking Christianity and other faiths to shadowy, sinister alien conspiracies.

These ideas are easy to dismiss as utterly and obviously ridiculous. However, they have a history of attracting troubled believers on the furthest conspiracy fringe. And, while these movies are available on other streaming platforms, in this case the sitting president’s nascent media empire is playing a role in the promotion of this extreme content. Trump’s streaming service also seems to have helped it to find an audience. On Monday and through much of last week, “Lizard People” was listed among the top 10 “most watched” programs on the streaming service

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[Norbert]

1. Only the clasics.

I'm sure the Sound of Music won't be showing. The Trapp weren't nice people and were too woke.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Are-Weapons-Psychological-American/dp/0393881512

"In Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats―the essential tool kit for psychological warfare―have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America’s deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin’s Revolutionary War–era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online. America’s secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. And there’s a reason for that: operatives who shaped modern psychological warfare drew on their experiences as science fiction writers and in the advertising industry.

Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands of culture warriors, transforming democratic debates into toxic wars over American identity. "

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They can generate one fantasy after another, just like Q-Anon, Hillary's emails, Hunter Biden's laptop, J6 was Patriot's Revolt ..... the more BS the more it scores. We live on fantasies.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. They're trying to misdirect us away from the toad people, who are really in charge.

Case in point:




(Seriously, remember those old pulp SF stories where the Earthmen are fooled into taking the wrong side in an war between aliens? Thoroughly parodied in Harry Harrison's Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers.)

[maveric]

4. David Icke anyone?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. The movie on Lizard People is a documentary on Stephen Miller

[usedtobedemgurl]

6. Lizard people?

Someone watched the "V" tv series.