During his Sunday morning torrent of Truth Social posts, Trump amplified a headline about his perceived nemesis, former President Barack Obama.
The problem is that the headline is from a satirical news website that published it nine months ago.
The article by the Dunning-Kruger Times says that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ― an agency created by Trump’s own administration ― halted a $2.6 million annual payment to the former president for “royalties associated with Obamacare.”
Trump posted a screenshot Sunday on Truth Social of what appears to be an X post about the fictional article, pairing it with a one-word message: “WOW!”
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment on whether the president was aware the article is from a satirical news site named after the cognitive bias in which someone wrongly overestimates their own competence.
