As anticipated, Donald Trump’s large announcement about autism was nothing however a giant scorching a** mess.
Flanked by his crackpot Head of Well being and Human Companies, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Meals and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, Nationwide Institutes of Well being Director Jay Bhattacharya, and Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies Administrator TV physician, Mehmet Oz, Trump, with out a shred of proof, linked Tylenol to autism.
Trump has been teasing this “large announcement” for days and started his rambling press convention, proclaiming, “Taking Tylenol is, uh, not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good.”
In a press convention that was eerily harking back to his COVID-19 presser, the place he advised that People inject bleach into their our bodies to battle the novel virus, Trump couldn’t even pronounce the generally used ache reliever’s identify whereas studying a ready assertion.
In one other second, with some affirmation from the white Dr. Sebi, aka RFK Jr., Trump claimed the Amish don’t have autism as a result of they don’t take any of the medicines or vaccines or, as he known as it, “junk” that hundreds of thousands of People have been taking for years.
Donald Trump Guarantees To Finish Autism By The Finish of His Time period
Whereas additionally stating that his administration shall be issuing a warning to medical doctors to not suggest acetaminophen, the lively ingredient in Tylenol and different broadly used medicines, to pregnant ladies, claiming it is likely to be linked to autism, he additionally introduced the FDA authorised the usage of a chemotherapy drug known as leucovorin to deal with the signs of autism.
Earlier than you even ask, there’s little proof that the drug even works in opposition to the dysfunction, whereas additionally vowing to get rid of it by the top of his time period.
It hasn’t even been a 12 months but, and this administration has already gone off the rails. You’ll be able to see extra reactions to this bonkers announcement within the gallery under.
