November 7, 2013 🟢 Minor

Mocks Obamacare website as "total disaster" with "90 million doomed"

As the HealthCare.gov website struggled with technical problems during its October 1 launch, Trump tweeted "Today is the day that ObamaCare website was supposed to be up and working. WRONG-website is closed down, a total disaster! 90 million doomed." The tweet exaggerated the website's issues and made an apocalyptic prediction about 90 million people being "doomed." This was part of Trump's pattern of attacking the Affordable Care Act that would continue through his presidency.

"ObamaCare website was supposed to be up and working. WRONG-website is closed down, a total disaster! 90 million doomed." — Twitter, November 7, 2013

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Offenses:
disinformation
Domains:
public-health governance
Tags:
#obamacare#healthcare#website-rollout