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As expected, President Donald Trump and the United States Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the podium on Monday afternoon to blame the acetaminophen (known as the Tylenol brand) for causing autism-an assertion that many experts reject. But the two men also took a while to point their finger on one of their favorite scapegoats: vaccines.

Throughout yesterday’s press conference, announcing the apparent conclusions of HHS on autism, ostensibly focusing on acetaminophen and Folate deficiency, Trump and Kennedy have repeatedly returned to vaccination. The two threw familiar discussion points and regularly demystified from the anti -salaries movement, such as the supposed dangers to take too many vaccines at the same time. These moments, out of the script too, are a strong signal that RFK JR. and its allies always predict to officially blame the vaccines for having caused autism.

Shirk

The announcement of HHS on autism published yesterday, not so much an alleged information sheet, mainly concerned acetaminopène drugs and leucuvorine, the latter being a drug used to treat certain types of folates deficiency. External scientists have already torn the results, arguing that they are based, at best, on weak and mixed evidence. But that did not prevent Trump and Rfk Jr. from proclaiming loudly during the conference they got closer to finding the real response to the increase in reported autism rates. Real experts say that the majority of the climb is simply due to better screening and broad criteria for autism.

Trump certainly underlined the main conclusions, more than once, shouting on pregnant women not to take Tylenol and finish their episodes of pain and fever, because he apparently has no drawbacks. Leaving aside the misery of having to endure these symptoms without medication, fever during pregnancy can be a risk factor for neurodevelopmental conditions as autism. He also wrongly said that Cuba has no autism, probably because the country has reduced access to acetaminophen.

That said, it didn’t take too long for Trump to start complaining about vaccines.

‘Too much liquid’

In probably the most impossible moment, Trump called the timetable for infant vaccines to be broken and still spaced, arguing that it is dangerous that babies are exposed to too many vaccine ingredients at once-including, it seems, water contained vaccine.

“Break it, because it’s too liquid, too many different things enter this baby too large, the size of this thing, when you look at it, it’s like 80 different vaccines,” said Trump.

The “too liquid” part seems to be a unique Trumpism, but it is certainly true that many antivaxxers are afraid of the number of vaccines that children are forced to receive, often by exaggerating their face as Trump did. Nowhere in the world, a child is forced to take 80 different vaccines, or up to 92, like RFK Jr. previously claimed.

The count may differ depending on state policy, but children are generally encouraged to receive around 15 different vaccines before adulthood. Many vaccines require boosters, so anti -taxx will try to fuel mathematics by counting each dose as a separate vaccine. But if you do this for all non -annual vaccines, you always get around 30 doses. People, children and adults are also generally recommended to obtain a seasonal flu vaccine (and until recently, a regular booster of 19 Covid-19), but even if you include both annual flu and photos coded until the age of 18, you always would not reach 80. These blurred mathematics are in any case unnecessary, because only certain childhood vaccines are in fact obliged by states so that children enter and stay in public school. New York, for example, forces children to take ten vaccines throughout their school years.

Gas mothers?

Trump offered other absurd ducks on vaccination. He said that Amish communities, some of which are skeptical about vaccines, do not know autism – a complete lie. He said that the combined vaccine of measles, mumps and rubella was dangerous – an unfounded assertion – and said that the shots should be given separately. It is a long -standing objective of the anti -salaries movement, but it would endanger children, because fewer families have time or resources to obtain the three vaccines individually. (It would also take more doses in total, which seems to fly to Trump’s liquid concerns!)

Although RFK Jr. had less speaking time during the announcement, he also made a duty to advance the demystified link between vaccines and autism. During a particularly astonishing moment, he tried to frame people’s opposition to anti -salaries and mothers’ “light of gas” who believe that the autism of their children was caused by vaccines, even arguing that he was going against the common chorus to “believe all women” – a feeling of all heart approved by the White House, which underlined him on his social accounts.

“Some 40 to 70% of mothers who have autistic children believe that their child was injured by a vaccine. President Trump thinks that we should listen to these mothers instead of clarifying and marginalizing them as previous administrations.” – @Seckennnedy Pic.twitter.com/491tqipgky

– The White House (@Whitehouse) September 23, 2025

The anti -tax future

The announcement of HHS autism published yesterday contains only a brief, but important, a reference to vaccines. He noted that the National Institutes of Health have recently launched the Autism data science initiativewhich is intended to finance research which will study in more detail the engines of autism, among others. The HHS announcement mentions that vaccinations will be one of the “medical and perinatal influence” that the initiative will examine, which RFK Jr. has also confirmed. HHS would also have hired anti -diaxer well known David Geier to conduct a new study reviewed the link between vaccines and autism.

Some members of the anti -salaries have expressed their dismay that the highly praised HHS report was mainly concentrated on acetaminophen, fearing that RFK Jr. and Trump will let the vaccines drop out. But given their comments yesterday, it seems that they are also impatient to continue to undermine vaccination. The country’s public health is bad now, but it could certainly get worse from now.