Why is Trump Giving Medical Advice Linking Autism to Tylenol? Because We Elected Him - Again

Yesterday, President Trump gave remarks linking autism to Tylenol:

First, effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of a -- well, let's see how we say that acetaminophen -- is that OK? Which is basically commonly known as Tylenol during pregnancy, can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.

So taking Tylenol is not good. All right. I'll say it. It's not good. For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, that you feel you can't tough it out. You can't do it. I guess there's that.

It's a small number of cases, I think. But if you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're going to have to do. You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly. It can be something that's very dangerous to the woman's health, in other words, a fever that's very, very dangerous and ideally a doctor's decision because I think you shouldn't take it and you shouldn't take it during the entire pregnancy.

They may tell you toward the end of the pregnancy, you shouldn't take it during the entire. And you shouldn't give the child a Tylenol every time he goes -- he's born and he goes and has a shot. You shouldn't give a Tylenol to that child. All pregnant women should talk to their doctors for more information about limiting the use of this medication while pregnant.

So ideally, you don't take it at all. But if you have to -- if you can't tough it out or if there's a problem, you're going to end up doing it. The other thing that I can tell you that I'll say that they will maybe say at a little bit later date. But I think when you go for the shot, you do it over a five-time period, take it over five times or four times, but you take it in smaller doses and you spread it out over a period of years.

And they pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies, it's a disgrace. I don't see it. I think it's very bad. They're pumping -- it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess, 80 different blends and they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol.

Never mind that autism predates Tylenol by more than four decades.

If that wasn't enough, Trump also claimed there is no autism among Amish and Cuban people.

Why exactly is Donald Trump allowed to give medical advice to anyone? Because we elected him - again. 

This despite being fully aware that he suggested people inject themselves with bleach during the COVID pandemic much to the chagrin of Clorox and Lysol. Unfortunately, sure enough there were people who took Trump's advice and ended up needing help from their local poison control departments. 

Of course, Trump's defense was that he was being sarcastic about injecting bleach. So, was the announcement concerning autism and Tylenol also another act of sarcasm? 

While I do not want the President of the United States to be sarcastic when it comes to public health matters especially during a global pandemic which killed millions of people around the world, the fact is there are a significant number of voters who do not object to "sarcastic" behavior and were more than happy to give him another chance to preside over the deaths over millions more Americans. 

The sad truth is that there will be some women who still top taking Tylenol during their pregnancies because President Trump said so. And some of those women will get sick and some of them will die. Unfortunately, a lot of those families will say the death of their loved ones is G-d's will instead of a result of Trump's reckless disregard for human life.

Trump's words and deeds will soon again cause unnecessary deaths among Americans. But these unnecessary deaths could have been prevented had we chosen not to elect in the first place. And, for that matter, the second place.