"The billionaire has only built on that claim on social media, including screenshots of data he said shows millions of people marked as "alive" in the Social Security system when they clearly can't be.

"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," he wrote in one post.

Then, on Tuesday, Trump repeated many of the same numbers Musk put out as he read from an extensive list at a news conference in Mar-a-Lago."

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"Social Security policy experts and economists told ABC News that they are getting it wrong, contending Musk is misreading the agency's records system.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has multiple databases, including one that gets sent to the Treasury Department each month outlining who is receiving payments.

According to agency statistics, of the 67 million people who receive Social Security benefits, only 0.1% are over the age of 100.

"So, when they're throwing around numbers like tens of millions of dead people are getting Social Security, well there's only 67 million total. What are they talking about? Half the people are actually dead? The numbers are so ridiculous. It's not true," said Kathleen Romig, the director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities."

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Musk lied, people un-died.