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President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a fictitious headline claiming former President Barack Obama was previously collecting \u201croyalties linked to Obamacare\u201d\u2014a claim that originated from a February post on a satirical news site called the \u201cDunning-Kruger Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
The claim originated on a satirical news site called the \u201cDunning-Kruger Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Truth Social post<\/a> erroneously claims the former president has collected $40 million in taxpayer-funded \u201croyalties\u201d since 2010, when the Affordable Care Act was signed into law.<\/p>\n The post does not link to an article, but the claim originated on a website<\/a> for a publication called the \u201cDunning-Kruger Times,\u201d a subsidiary of the America\u2019s Last Line of Defense network, which describes itself as a \u201cnetwork of parody, satire, and tomfoolery.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEverything on this website is fiction,\u201d the website notes in its \u201cAbout Us\u201d<\/a> section, later mocking readers, \u201cif you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.\u201d<\/p>\n It is unclear why the president shared the post, which originated much earlier this year, and captioned it simply with \u201cWOW!\u201d<\/p>\n The White House did not immediately return a request for comment from Forbes.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n The \u201cObamacare royalties\u201d claim circulated earlier this year, as Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency dominated headlines while trying to enact cost-cutting measures across the federal government. The claim was quickly debunked<\/a> by fact-checkers<\/a>, but still was still spread widely over social media. \u201cThe \u2018Obamacare Royalties\u2019 storyline is one ALLOD has used successfully for years,\u201d the site\u2019s owner, Christopher Blair, told Reuters<\/a> in March. \u201cThe operation thrives on confirmation bias.\u201d <\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a fictitious headline claiming former President Barack Obama was previously collecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[969,103,397,396,61,60,11509,33938],"class_list":{"0":"post-130798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-obamacare","15":"tag-truth-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}