President Donald Trump shared an image claiming that President Barack Obama received royalties paid out by the federal government for the use of the word “Obamacare.”

The unofficial name for insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act is obviously not generating royalty payments for Obama, but that didn’t stop Trump from sharing the unattributed claim to his 11 million followers on Truth Social.

“DOGE halts yearly payments of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for ‘royalties linked to Obamacare,'” the post claimed. “Obama has collected this payment since 2010, for a total of $40 million in taxpayer dollars.”

The name “Obamacare” has not been trademarked as of this writing.

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