CNN’s Jake Tapper Mocks ‘Insane’ Trump Claim on Obamacare in Direct-to-Camera Rant

CNN anchor Jake Tapper mocked President Donald Trump over an “insane” claim about Obamacare in a direct-to-camera rant that included an explainer on “stupid people” believing in their own expertise.

Over the weekend, Trump dropped a flurry of social media posts that included attacks on Obamacare and an astonished “WOW!” at the false claim that former President Barack Obama collected royalties on the name. Fact-checkers debunked posts on this subject months ago, noting it originated from a parody news site.

Tapper — host of CNN’s The Lead and State of the Union — shot back with an analysis debunking the claim and explaining the Dunning-Kruger Effect for which the satirical website is named:

JAKE TAPPER: No, President Obama is not getting paid royalties for Obamacare, as President Trump posted on Truth Social earlier today. It’s not true. There’s no truth to it. It’s insane.

The claim, if you can call it that, originated on a website called the Dunning-Kruger Times. More on that in a second.

That’s part of the America’s Last Line of Defense Network, which is by definition describing itself as a network of parody satire and tomfoolery everything on this website is fiction the website says it’s not true.

But while we’re on the subject of the Dunning-Kruger Times, I want to tell you about the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

And it starts in 1995, when some bank robbers outside Pittsburgh are picked up because they had robbed a bank with no mask, no disguise, no sunglasses, no mustaches.

They were caught on closed circuit TV and they were stunned that they were caught.

Why were they stunned? Because they were under the belief that if they put lemon juice on their faces, they would be invisible. That’s what they thought.

A Cornell psychologist, a Cornell professor of psychology, Mr. Dunning, heard that and was stunned and wanted to find out more.

And he did a study and basically the study suggests that the less somebody knows about a subject, the more they think they are an expert on that subject.

In other words, stupid people don’t know how stupid they are because they’re so stupid. That’s what the Dunning-Kruger Times is.

Watch above via CNN’s Jake Tapper.