As his presidency continues to fall apart and his poll numbers fall to historic lows, Donald Trump is resorting to one of his favorite tactics in a desperate attempt to change the subject: Lying.
Writing from his Mar-a-Lago golf resort while millions of Americans go without food just weeks before Thanksgiving, Trump suggested that former President Barack Obama wants to make sure the Affordable Care Act (ACA) isn’t destroyed by Republicans because Obama is making millions from the law.
If true, such an accusation would be a major news story.
However, Donnie’s accusation is almost as bogus as his own so-called “healthcare plan,” which he promised to reveal in his first administration and has yet to deliver.
The post shared by Trump first originated on “America’s Last Line of Defense,” a satirical website which proudly publishes fictional “news” stories. It even brags, “Nothing on this page is real.”
AFP Fact Check notes, “Even if Obama were to have filed an Obamacare trademark while in office, the mark would likely belong to the government, since the Affordable Care Act is a federal product, according to Erik Pelton, an intellectual property lawyer and Georgetown University professor (archived here).
“Pelton pointed to Trump’s pending trademark on the term ‘Space Force,’ a branch of the military created by the president in 2019, as a legal reference point.
“He created the Space Force. And the name Space Force is a trademark pending that’s owned by the US military,” Pelton said. “Because it’s a governmental program, that’s who would own the name.”
Trump was pelted with mockery and ridicule for his latest lie.
