Where the $40 million royalty rumor actually came from
The post Trump shared didn’t include a source or any documentation – just the claim.
Fact-checkers quickly traced it back to a site called the Dunning-Kruger Times, part of the “America’s Last Line of Defense” (ALLOD) network.
That network doesn’t even pretend to be a real news outlet. On its own pages, it describes itself as producing “parody, satire and tomfoolery,” and states that everything on the site is fiction.
It literally warns readers: if you believe it’s real, that’s on you.
The “Obamacare royalties” storyline is something ALLOD has used for years because it reliably triggers outrage and shares. Owner Christopher Blair has openly said the operation thrives on confirmation bias – feeding people stories that match what they already want to believe.
In other words: the claim wasn’t based on policy, contracts, or financial records.
It started as a made-up “what if” on a satire network… and was then treated as if it were real.
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