“DOGE halts yearly payment of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for royalties linked to Obamacare.”

The claim that former President Barack Obama received $2.5 million to $2.6 million annually in 'royalties' for the use of the term 'Obamacare' is entirely fabricated. This narrative originated from a February 2025 article published by 'The Dunning-Kruger Times,' a website that explicitly identifies its content as satire. The claim was subsequently shared on social media and eventually reposted by Donald Trump on Truth Social in November 2025. There is no evidence that such payments ever existed, nor that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took any action to stop them. Former presidents receive a standard annual pension as provided by federal law, which is entirely unrelated to the Affordable Care Act or any 'royalty' scheme. Multiple independent fact-checking organizations, including PolitiFact, Snopes, and FactCheck.org, have debunked this claim as a hoax.