"On Sunday, president Donald Trump posted an image claiming that his predecessor Barack Obama had been collecting millions in taxpayer dollars from "royalties linked to Obamacare." Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, the post further averred, had heroically intervened to halt the yearly payments of $2.5 million, which totaled to $40 million since 2010. "WOW!" Trump wrote in the post, receiving nearly 18,000 likes and over 8,000 "ReTruths" on his social network Truth Social."
"But these claims weren't just false - they're so outrageously fake that their actual origin was mocking anyone credulous enough to fall for them. As many outlets quickly noted, the bogus item originates from a website called - we kid you not - the "Dunning-Kruger Times." The name, of course, is a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the well-observed tendency of particularly stupid people to vastly overestimate their abilities or intelligence."
Donald Trump posted an image claiming Barack Obama collected millions in taxpayer dollars from "royalties linked to Obamacare," with payments described as $2.5 million annually totaling $40 million since 2010. The post credited "Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency" with halting the payments and drew thousands of likes and ReTruths on Truth Social. The claim originated on the satirical Dunning-Kruger Times, whose About Us page states that everything on the site is fiction. A White House spokesperson declined to say whether Trump recognized the satire and instead issued a statement criticizing Obama's post-presidency finances and praising Trump's financial losses in office.
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