WASHINGTON ― You would think that Obamacare had enough real problems that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be able to stick to discussing them when taking a swing at the health care law. But you’d be wrong.

During a campaign event promotion for his hotels at the Trump National Doral Miami resort Tuesday, the GOP nominee seized on the news that health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s exchange marketplaces are going up by a lot for some people next year.

But naturally, instead of just using this information to criticize the law and propose something better (or “something terrific,” as he’s fond of saying), Trump opted to go a little nuts.

Politico reporter Eli Stokols was on the scene in Florida. (Read his dispatch here.) Let’s start with this:

Trump says news of 25% Obamacare rate spike is "phony number...going to be more like 80-90%." — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 25, 2016

Like with seemingly everything else, Trump appears incapable of just accepting the facts.

Here they are: The Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that the premiums for “benchmark” plans on the exchanges ― those used to set the size of subsidies that most exchange customers receive ― would rise an average of 25 percent next year in the 39 states that use the federal exchange system on HealthCare.gov.

That’s a lot! And while that average obscures even higher average increases in some states ― including those on the order of what Trump claims here ― that doesn’t make 25 percent “phony.” It’s how averages work.

If I ran a crooked system and rigged election, I'd blackmail insurers into hiding their ACA price hikes until November 9. But that's me. — Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 25, 2016

And then there’s this, which comes close to making no sense:

Classic Trump, claiming his employees are "having tremendous problems" with Obamacare AND claiming credit for providing them w/ healthcare. — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 25, 2016

Trump, in fact, claimed “all” the people who work for him are having these “tremendous problems,” per Reid J. Epstein of the Wall Street Journal.

Trump: "All of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare." — Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) October 25, 2016

But wait! Let’s break this down. The Trump Organization, like virtually all large employers in the U.S., provides health benefits to its full-time employees, so there’s no way “all” the people who work there are having “problems” with Obamacare.

Job-based health insurance isn’t “Obamacare.” While that term is used interchangeably with the Affordable Care Act, the rate increases in question only affect people who use the exchanges, not people who have health coverage from a job or a government program like Medicare or Medicaid. In fact, premiums for employer health insurance are rising much more slowly.

And apparently, the Trump Organization offers quality health insurance! Good for the Trump Organization! This is how one leading expert in workplace benefits described it to Salon earlier this year:

The Trump Hotel’s insurance is pretty good, according to Paul Fronstin, director of the Health Research and Education Program at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. He reviewed a copy of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas health benefits guide that the union provided to Salon. “The premiums are below average,” says Fronstin. “Some might consider this a Cadillac plan.”

Trump knows what he said was false, too. Or maybe he just doesn’t actually understand what Obamacare is?

Responding to Q shouted by reporter about whether his employees are on Obamacare, Trump said, "Some of them, but most of them no." https://t.co/MZKRb28BR0 — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 25, 2016

The guy who runs the Miami resort where Trump appeared Tuesday knows this is false, too.

Doral GM David Fedder says 95% of employees get healthcare, so very few on Obamacare. — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 25, 2016

(Stokols subsequently tweeted that the man’s last name is spelled “Feder.”)

Later, on Fox News, Trump said ― well, he said something. Via Sopan Deb at CBS News:

Trump on Fox: "I don't use much ObamaCare, I must be honest with you, because it is so bad for the people and they can't afford it." pic.twitter.com/BQXAq1vsai — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 25, 2016

This is gobbledygook.

Large businesses like the Trump Organization don’t “use” Obamacare. Businesses buy health insurance for large numbers of people from commercial insurance carriers (or businesses contract with those providers to administer benefits but pay workers’ medical bills with company money).

Even though it’s true, as Trump said, that some people who can’t get insurance from a job ― like the part-time workers at his company ― can’t afford policies from an exchange or directly from an insurer, this statement still contradicts his assertion that “all” his employees are having “tremendous problems” with Obamacare.

But what about those employees who aren’t on the company plan, which likely includes only people who work part-time and aren’t offered those benefits? Those who have health coverage at all might be using the exchanges (or they might have Medicaid or be covered by a family member’s insurance or something else).

Are those employees having “tremendous problems”? Possibly. People who earn too much for subsidies on the exchanges have no protection from the rate hikes next year.

But those subsidies are available to people who earn up to four times the federal poverty level, which comes to about $47,000 a year for a single person. The average annual earnings for a maid working full time are less than half of that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, that there are Trump Organization employees who are being hit hard by the Obamacare rate increases. Believing Donald J. Trump has any idea about that would require believing that he knows or cares about the personal problems his low-wage workers are experiencing, which, come on.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.