{"id":190952,"date":"2026-08-16T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/190952\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:08:43","slug":"cassidy-attacks-crazy-stupid-trump-comments-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/190952\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy attacks \u2018crazy, stupid\u2019 Trump comments on\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cassidy was questioned Sunday by Jake Tapper on CNN\u2019s State of the Union and told the anchor only that \u201cyou have to live life living forward\u201d when asked why he voted for the health secretary despite his track record of spreading misinformation about vaccines and autism for decades. Cassidy has, since Kennedy\u2019s confirmation, stated that he believes the Health secretary misled him about his intentions during the confirmation process.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week when you were asked if you regret your vote to confirm Secretary Kennedy to HHS, you noted that you couldn’t see into the future at the time– you couldn’t see that he was not going to honor his promises to you to get your vote,\u201d said Tapper. \u201cHow do you respond to the criticism that you didn’t need to look to the future, you just needed to look to the past, because Secretary Kennedy, RFK Jr. has been spreading disinformation about vaccines for 22 years?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, again, people always want to bring that up, and all I can say is you have to you have to live life living forward,\u201d the Republican senator said in response.<\/p>\n

He then went on to chide Tapper for focusing on Kenndy\u2019s role in the situation rather than the policy matters raised by the Trump administration\u2019s order this week altering the federal vaccine schedule for children.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think actually people bringing this up now distract from actually what we should be speaking about,\u201d argued Cassidy. \u201cIn fact, you’re playing into this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should have positive policy to improve the health of the American people,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe should be really about \u2018Making America Healthy Again,\u2019 and that means that we should be working to increase immunization rates, not to decrease them. And the policy that the president just put forward is going to decrease immunization rates, aside from being less convenient and costing families more. And frankly, that is where the focus should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

His interview comes after the president\u2019s order that significantly changed the federal vaccine schedule, dividing shots into three separate categories and recommending that infants and young children receive them in separate doctor\u2019s visits. In his interview, Cassidy, a doctor, noted repeatedly that the change to the schedule will mean more doctor\u2019s appointments for parents of young children, leading to higher costs and what he described as a significantly more inconvenient scenario for working families.<\/p>\n

\"Cassidy
\n Cassidy has clashed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and says the secretary misled him about his intentions to alter federal vaccine guidelines (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

But more impactful than the order itself<\/a> was the president\u2019s rhetoric at Monday\u2019s signing ceremony where the order was announced. At the event, Trump leveled untrue and disproven claims about vaccines and their supposed dangers and made factually inaccurate assertions about Americans having supposedly been healthier, en masse, before the advent of childhood vaccines and vaccination schedules. <\/p>\n

He also wrongfully linked those early childhood vaccinations to rising numbers of autism diagnoses, which scientists and doctors say are unrelated.<\/p>\n

The senator, during his interview, agreed with the characterization of Trump\u2019s rhetoric at the event as \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201cstupid\u201d and argued that the order\u2019s economic consequences were part of the reason why the president\u2019s poll numbers continue to sink.<\/p>\n

“If it wasn’t so potentially tragic, you would break out laughing,\u201d said Cassidy. \u201cIt is wrong on so many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Trump
\n Trump spread misinformation about vaccines and autism at an Monday event where he unveiled an order changing the federal vaccine schedule (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n

The senator from Louisiana, a Republican, clashed repeatedly with RFK Jr. over 2025 and into 2026 after the secretary\u2019s confirmation, angered by official statements and messaging from the Department of Health and Human Services that catered to conspiracy theorists and contributed to the spread of misinformation about vaccinations.<\/p>\n

Still, Cassidy cast the deciding vote that saw RFK Jr. confirmed to oversee the nation\u2019s health industry. <\/p>\n

Cassidy also had his own personal blow-up with Trump over the Iran war and the senator previously supported the president\u2019s impeachment after January 6. Trump endorsed against him in a primary earlier this year, and Cassidy lost his battle for re-election as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cassidy was questioned Sunday by Jake Tapper on CNN\u2019s State of the Union and told the anchor only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[367,366,75,371,3402,50,368,365,369,370,74,52],"class_list":["post-190952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump-jr","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-trump","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117105820430522951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}