Trump pushes false Obama claims from satirical news site

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00:00Trump pushes false Obama claims from satirical news site.

00:05President Donald Trump has promoted a fabricated headline alleging former President Barack

00:09Obama has been collecting royalties linked to Obamacare, amplifying a claim that originated

00:14months earlier on a satirical website.

00:17The Truth Social Post, which Trump shared with the caption,

00:21Wow!

00:22resurfaced a debunked narrative asserting Obama received $40 million in taxpayer-funded

00:27payments associated with the Affordable Care Act.

00:30The claim traces back to a February article on the Dunning-Kruger Times, a self-described

00:35parody outlet affiliated with the America's Last Line of Defense Network, an organization

00:40that openly brands itself as a network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery.

00:46Although Trump did not link to any article in his post, the wording closely mirrors the

00:50satirical piece circulated by the site.

00:53The headline and claims presented in the original source are entirely fictitious.

00:58The Truth Social Post erroneously claims the former president has collected $40 million

01:03in taxpayer-funded royalties since 2010, when the Affordable Care Act was signed into law,

01:10Forbes explains.

01:11The Dunning-Kruger Times itself makes no attempt to hide its fictional nature.

01:16As its About Us section states, everything on this website is fiction, and if you believe

01:20that it is real, you should have your head examined.

01:23The allegation had previously gained traction earlier in the year during the rollout of

01:27cost-cutting initiatives by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

01:32As those proposals drew national attention, the fabricated Obamacare royalty storyline spread

01:37widely on social media, despite repeated fact-checks debunking the rumor.

01:42Christopher Blair, the owner of the America's last line of defense network, acknowledged

01:47the recurring impact of the narrative in comments reported by Reuters, saying,

01:51The Obamacare royalty storyline is one Allod has used successfully for years.

01:56The operation thrives on confirmation bias.

01:59Even with its well-documented satirical origins, the claim continues to circulate among some of

02:04Trump's online supporters.

02:06The renewed attention from the former president's post has once again raised concerns about the

02:11spread of misinformation, and the ease with which satire can be misconstrued as legitimate

02:15news when shared without context.