Trump, 79, Says Cuba and the Amish Have No Autism in Bonkers Speech
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Trump, 79, Says Cuba and the Amish Have No Autism in Bonkers Speech
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-says-cuba-and-the-amish-have-no-autism-in-bonkers-speech/
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>President Donald Trump made a series of bizarre claims and dolled out his own medical advice while making a major announcement at the White House flanked by his top health officials.
>The president, 79, was slated to give remarks on Monday afternoon that the administration had found links between autism and Tylenol use by pregnant women, an announcement that some doctors were already pushing back on.
>However, Trump went off-script and made a series of rambling, eyebrow-raising comments about autism, vaccines, and butchered the pronunciation of acetaminophen, best known as the brand name Tylenol.
>President Donald Trump makes an announcement at the White House claiming the administration has found a link between autism and Tylenol on September 22, 2025 as HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. looks on.
>“I think I can say that there are certain groups of people that don’t take any vaccines or don’t take any pills that have no autism,” Trump declared confidently.
>But just moments later, he looked around at the group with him to see if what he had just claimed was actually true.
>“Is that a correct statement by the way?” he asked.
>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy chimed in with the Amish as an example, despite there being cases of autism in the Amish community.
>“The Amish, yeah, virtually, I hear no, I heard none,” Trump responded. “See, Bobby wants to be very careful with what he says, and he should, but I am not so careful with what I say,” the president rambled. “You have certain groups, the Amish, as an example, they have essentially no autism.”
>But the president, appearing to pluck random claims and sharing them in his major announcement from the White House did not stop there.
>“I mean, there’s a rumor and I don’t know if it’s still or not that Cuba, they don’t have Tylenol because they don’t have the money for Tylenol, and they have virtually no autism, okay?” the president declared.
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Fucking moron and his cultists are inherently dangerous to society.
It’s so frustrating to have spent the last 18 years of my life in college and working healthcare for people like this to come along and push against actual science while their followers eat it up. Mind you, from my experience, these same people are the ones who show up in the ED at the slightest change in their health, while refusing all tests, or trying to dictate treatment that isn’t accepted by the medical community.
Their anti-science propaganda has already resulted in unnecessary deaths, and it is going to result in many more over time.
I know this is a bit of a rant (and somewhat unprofessional at that); but I’m so burnt out at this point, and approaching my late 30s, I don’t know what other career path I would choose. I have thought about returning to where I grew up in Europe, but even that has its challenges now, and it’s really difficult to waste a decade of education.
Edit: thank you for all of the kind words. I will say, I understand the mentality of people who vote and support this reaping what those people sow, but their children do not deserve to suffer because of their parents’ stupidity. Moreover, with a country that has free borders across the states, anti-vax states are going to continue to spread diseases we haven’t worried about in decades. People who trust science should not have to suffer and be exposed because of those who follow clearly-defined cult.
No gays in Russia either, I’ve heard.
And I would say that judging by the evidence and the inaction, the US has no 25th Amendment.
This is going to be bad. Pregnant woman are already banned from so many painkillers. If some are banned from Tylenol, they will basically get to have 8 months of no possible recourse for pain.
I listened to the speech. He couldn’t even read the word “acetaminophen.” I felt like I was watching a 3rd grader trying to sound out a word. I would think the president would get a statement prior to reading it so they can practice but I guess not.
Grand kid has autism and guess what mom never took… I’ll give you one guess
Is Tylenol the new divisive issue now? Will only liberals use Tylenol? Need to know what my orders are.
I don’t see anyone claiming that there is no autism in Cuba. Is it another QAnon thing?
Because of this stupid statement, I ended up googling Amish and Autism. And immediately got results on the first page of search results about the myth of the lack of autism in the Amish community. Didn’t even know that there was such a myth in the first place.
I live in trump/Mennonite country and work with kids who have autism. While I only work with public school kids and not in Mennonite schools, the majority of my neighbors are horse and buggy. I GUARANFUCKINGTEE you I’ve met mennonites with asd, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, etc.
I’m pissed and will have to deal with a lot of bullshit in the coming days.
Trump, 79, is a born fabulist. This should color everything he says.
Amish spread measles.
They are nasty people who mistreat animals, run puppy mills, and use services and infrastructure they refuse to help pay for.
I was pregnant and in a high stress job with a psychopath boss. I got headaches and body aches and took Tylenol many times. My kids don’t have autism. These two are a menace and danger to society. Remember when barron was a little kid and rosie O’Donnell said he had autism and trump was ashamed of him? This was not cool and don’t bring a child into your feud, but this is what trump is mad about. This is his unbalanced part in all this, because he’s an idiot and he thinks autism means his genes are bad. They are bad because everyone of his grown children are hideous and he looks like his mom in drag, and they are all bad people. There is nothing wrong with people having autism.
They have acetaminophen in Cuba. I’ve bought it there and used it. It seems at least on the surface to work the exact same, with the same doses as the North American version. So I call this bs.
Absolutely false!
In 2010 a study was published that looked at two of the largest Old Order Amish communities in the US. Actual doctors and medically trained professionals found a rate of 1 out of 271 children between the ages of 3-21 were on the spectrum. While the prevalence is lower in the Amish communities, it does exist there.
Ffs.
Where are the adults??
My dad was born in Cuba. Two of his kids are autistic, and it’s clear Dad has autism himself.
And are Republicans actually giving a Communist regime a win? (Obviously, most Cuban-Americans are still going to vote for them. But still, this makes no sense.)
I have Amish friends who have an autistic child. They are aware of autism and care for their children best they can. This is just a strange way to fetishize their life style while promoting misinformation
He also said that his father would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark
I doubt the Amish are diagnosing it. My rural grandfather was simply described as “the silent type.” And no one really cared.
Reminds me of the time the (former) president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gave a speech where he said there were no homosexuals in Iran.
The amish are socially awkard as fuck, theres no way at least some don’t have autism. Also maybe, maybe its because they refuse to get diagnosed?
IF acetaminophen is the problem WHY say Tylenol? I hope Tylenol sues him for $15B.
Oh, and release the un-redacted Epstein files.
I still can’t believe this fucking moron is the president. How the fuck did a single person vote for this fucking walking embarrassment?!?
“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,” Trump said…
This has to be one for the hall of fame
It’s weird that the Amish are held up as paradigms of health. I had a friend who was a pediatric surgeon and Amish kids we frequent patients for congenital conditions caused by inbreeding.
Amish don’t report and that’s exactly what he wants. He wants to keep people from being able to report accurate numbers in so many areas of our economy and society to hide the truth.
I’ve lived my whole life in Northern Indiana surrounded by Amish. Not only do they ABSOLUTY have kids with autism, the town I grew up in has a group home dedicated to helping Amish children with disabilities and developmental disorders. Now, I just know I’m going to go into work tomorrow and the trump-loving morons I work with are suddenly going to conveniently forget and swear they’ve never seen an autistic Amish child in their lives.
As a retired pediatric nurse, my fear is parents will not give Tylenol and instead give children with fevers baby aspirin which can cause in deadly Reyes Syndrome,
I grew up near the Amish. Y’all have *no idea* how many problems they have. They have genetic disorders, they regularly have disease outbreaks like measles, they have horrible accidents that cause death and disfigurement in children. They routinely lose infants in childbirth due to complications that could have been avoided by simply giving birth in a medical setting, with doctors.
It’s certainly not something to aspire to in modern society. I don’t understand why he would ever use THIS as a standard to compare to when discussing the health of our nation’s children.
Edit – and to be clear, they DO have autism.
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