Medicaid spending isn't going "up" under the Senate health care bill simply because the actual literal amount of dollars spent on Medicaid gets higher. Medical costs actually go up every year too, and existing law already plans for spending increases in order to maintain current levels of coverage. The Senate health care bill would reduce, or cut, the amount of planned spending by $772 billion over a decade, which according to the Congressional Budget Office will result in 15 million fewer people being covered by Medicaid than would have been otherwise.

The broader problem with this is that despite his deep and extensive experience in the field of bullshit, Trump has not usually been one to lie with numbers, probably because it would require remembering or looking at numbers. If this is really a thing he's getting into now, we're all in trouble.

Now, if only there were people working in a profession whose job were to ignore diversionary tweets and focus on reporting these important facts to the American people. Wouldn't it be nice if they did that?