US President Donald Trump offered a rare glimpse into his views on childhood vaccinations on Sunday while en route to the White House following Charlie Kirk’s memorial.
During his journey back to Washington DC, the president fielded questions aboard Air Force One about Monday’s announcement concerning Autism.
In the course of the conversation, a reporter asked President Trump if he intended to connect the neurodevelopmental disorder with vaccines, despite scientific evidence to the contrary, reports The Mirror US.
“Vaccines are very interesting,” the president remarked. “They can be great, but when you put the wrong stuff in them, you know… And, you know, children get these massive vaccines like you’d give to a horse… like you’d give to a horse.
“And I’ve said for a long time, I mean, this is no secret – spread them out over five years. Get five shots, small ones. Did you ever see what they give,” he continued. “I mean, for a little baby to be injected with that much fluid, even beyond the actual ingredients, they have sometimes 80 different vaccines in them. It’s crazy.”
“You know that’s a common sense thing too… It’s like you’re shooting up a horse,” Trump stated. “You have a little body, a little baby, and you’re pumping this big thing. It’s a horrible thing. So I’ve always felt that. But we’ll be having a big discussion about autism tomorrow.”
Various news sources revealed that the president and his Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, will deliver a statement connecting Tylenol usage during pregnancy to heightened autism risk. According to two senior administration officials, the president would also spotlight leucovorin, a cancer and anaemia medication, as a possible treatment for individuals with autism.
“Autism is totally out of control,” President Trump said. “I think we, maybe, have a reason why.”
An official declaration from Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, said that the announcement “will make historic progress” in tackling rising autism rates. Discovering the root cause of the mental condition has been a primary objective of the HHS since Trump resumed office in January.
Kennedy had pledged earlier this year to provide some solutions in September. A recent study by the CDC discovered that 1 in 31 American 8 year olds was diagnosed with the condition in 2022, compared with 1 in 150 in 2000.
The announcement also represents the first occasion that the federal government has connected the widely-used painkilling medication with autism. Kennedy has also consistently argued that certain environmental elements are triggering the surge in autism cases – a assertion that has repeatedly been refuted – including the use of vaccines.
The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services had originally intended to publish the autism-tylenol connection in an unspecified “report,” according to one official.
It should be noted that such a report does not exist.
An existing review co-authored by Dr Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of Harvard’s T. H.Chan School of Public Health, was published in the journal BMC Environmental Health.
It states, “Appropriate and immediate steps should be taken to advise pregnant women to limit acetaminophen consumption to protect their offspring’s neurodevelopment.”
However, there is no mention that expectant mothers should not use Tylenol except for high fevers.
“Appropriate and immediate steps should be taken to advise pregnant women to limit acetaminophen consumption to protect their offspring’s neurodevelopment,” the review said.
“We recommend judicious acetaminophen use – lowest effective dose, shortest duration – under medical guidance, tailored to individual risk-benefit assessments, rather than a broad limitation,” it added.
The WSJ also reported that Kirk Perry, interim CEO of Tylenol maker Kenvue, privately urged Kennedy not to cite Tylenol as a cause of autism.