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turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:12 PM Sep 22

'This is based on what I feel': Trump makes stunning announcement about children's health

By Nicole Charky-Chami
Published September 22, 2025 5:25 PM ET

President Donald Trump made a stunning announcement about children's health on Monday, saying, "This is based on what I feel," without any scientific or factual basis, claiming Tylenol use during pregnancy can lead to autism among children.

During a press conference led by the president, who mispronounced the main ingredient, acetaminophen, has already received pushback from medical experts who claim there is no evidence or existing data showing that

"Tylenol is not good, don't take it," Trump said. He added that women should only take it "if they can't tough it out."

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2674018165/

Two fucking idiots standing at a podium neither one a doctor..............and some feckless reporter should have asked.................. have you ever taken Tylenol in your life ..............for a fever or pain?...................Did a "qualified doctor" tell you to take this stuff...........yes or no.................hey Trump did that former doctor in the white house, Jackson ever tell you to not take Tylenol .................did your kids ever get you some at the store or your staff so ordered by you............................how about you Kennedy.........JFC 3 more years of this shit show.................the senate and the maga Roberts court has this on there hands now............

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'This is based on what I feel': Trump makes stunning announcement about children's health (Original Post) turbinetree Sep 22 OP
Did you tough out your bone spurs Aviation Pro Sep 22 #1
He is a fucking coward....................he can stand behind everyone and watch people die and then blame them........ turbinetree Sep 22 #7
It is always about little Donnie's fee fees. Irish_Dem Sep 22 #31
He was... 2naSalit Sep 22 #34
Let me guess . . . no_hypocrisy Sep 22 #2
He is blaming Melania for some problems in the family. Irish_Dem Sep 22 #8
I wonder what Melania thinks of Cadet Bonespurs judging her Skittles Sep 22 #35
Judging and blaming. Irish_Dem Sep 22 #37
I have thought Barron to be autistic from pretty much the first time I saw him Skittles Sep 22 #38
My niece is autistic and she's doing fine. ananda Sep 22 #42
She'll be fine. ReRe Sep 22 #48
That is so great! ananda Sep 22 #49
Great! ReRe Sep 22 #51
Yes once the dx is made there can be early intervention. Irish_Dem Sep 23 #55
That's gonna sting other "gold digging pieces of shit." rubbersole Sep 22 #46
Yepper ................someone should ask the ....................fill in the blank............... turbinetree Sep 22 #9
Trump loves the idea of women being in pain. Irish_Dem Sep 22 #3
Yepper .................he just loves to be a sadistic a**hole and he is a coward................. turbinetree Sep 22 #11
I am sure he screams like a baby when they have to give him an IV Irish_Dem Sep 22 #18
What is really classic is that he is going to bring someone in to taste his food next in his state of paranoia......... turbinetree Sep 22 #23
I have read this is one reason he only eats fast food. Irish_Dem Sep 22 #27
Yeah I forgot about that .................. turbinetree Sep 22 #30
Trump is so crazy it is hard to keep track of all the moving parts. Irish_Dem Sep 23 #53
He has only one moving part he is psychopath turbinetree Sep 23 #58
Cruelty is the first thing I thought of when he said those words. ReRe Sep 22 #50
Yes his comments about women putting up with pain were quite telling. Irish_Dem Sep 23 #54
How in the Hell has he escaped karma for so long? n /t ReRe Sep 23 #56
Good question. Irish_Dem Sep 23 #57
He and his buddies must have shorted the stock leftstreet Sep 22 #4
I heard he threw some other brands under the bus NCDem47 Sep 22 #10
He is more than an ass he is a traitor.................who tried to over throw votes............ turbinetree Sep 22 #24
Probably so.................using bitcoins.................that are just like Bennie babies dolls............ turbinetree Sep 22 #13
Instead, inject bleach into your body newdeal2 Sep 22 #5
and the MAGA faithful believe pfitz59 Sep 22 #6
Sorry if this sounds angry, but this is the most fucking D. Spaulding Sep 22 #12
Because a US Senate and corrupt Roberts Courts has given this coward the means and the power to do this................ turbinetree Sep 22 #15
Because the free press who covers this WH senseandsensibility Sep 22 #21
I agree whole heartedly.................they have failed............. turbinetree Sep 22 #25
Don't forget this lady who's been along for the ride up to this day wolfie001 Sep 22 #45
So this is the big September Autism announcement that they have promised for months? Klarkashton Sep 22 #14
Will we have to add 'Doctor' to his new title of king? sinkingfeeling Sep 22 #16
To increase his ego....................he likes having all of those "titles................. turbinetree Sep 22 #28
Based on Rebl2 Sep 22 #17
Listening to people like Donnie can cause your brain cells to die and lower your IQ struggle4progress Sep 22 #19
Wait just a minute.... democrank Sep 22 #20
He has no working knowledge of Tylenol BattleRow Sep 22 #39
people only tell him what he wants to hear rampartd Sep 22 #22
That warmth he feels is just a huge pile of fresh shit in his pamper Blue Owl Sep 22 #26
Running down to his "cankles".................... turbinetree Sep 22 #29
So it was the Tylenol? Trump reveals the link to autism! Aussie105 Sep 22 #32
Dorothy (Wiz of Oz reference) Aussie105 Sep 22 #33
There is no greater authority on being a child than him Conjuay Sep 22 #36
Really? As the Reich-wing put it, "Fuck your feelings!" NM Grins Sep 22 #40
I think there's a reason behind this madness. slightlv Sep 22 #41
Honestly I'm surprised Diraven Sep 22 #43
Don't you worry, I'm sure all the repukes stocked up before this jackass announcement Javaman Sep 22 #44
Don't ask me what I feel about this silver spoon up his ass imbecile. nt Xipe Totec Sep 22 #47
People are supposed to pay attention to what that stupid bastard "feels"? Klarkashton Sep 22 #52
MaddowBlog-'Violence against the truth': Obama takes aim at Trump's bogus Tylenol claims LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #59

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
7. He is a fucking coward....................he can stand behind everyone and watch people die and then blame them........
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:16 PM
Sep 22

because its the way he feels..................

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
8. He is blaming Melania for some problems in the family.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:16 PM
Sep 22

And she was too weak to "tough it out" so he is going to humiliate her.

Skittles

(167,767 posts)
35. I wonder what Melania thinks of Cadet Bonespurs judging her
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:24 PM
Sep 22

if she wasn't such a gold digging piece of shit I'd almost feel sorry for her

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
37. Judging and blaming.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:27 PM
Sep 22

Barron is said to have a least a touch of the 'tism.
Trump appears to be blaming Melania for it.

Of course he is.

I know I almost feel sorry for the Gold Digging Genius Visa porn model.

Skittles

(167,767 posts)
38. I have thought Barron to be autistic from pretty much the first time I saw him
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:34 PM
Sep 22

I had a severely autistic brother and could see a lot of the mannerisms

nothing wrong with being autistic but it would truly suck having those two as parents, they are both self-centered assholes

ananda

(33,430 posts)
42. My niece is autistic and she's doing fine.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:12 PM
Sep 22

The key was the diagnosis.

Once they knew what it was, the knew
what to do.

I wouldn't have her any other way.

ReRe

(12,055 posts)
48. She'll be fine.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:10 PM
Sep 22

One of my 3 sons is on the spectrum. Graduated College with a 3.45 GPA. 20 yrs ago. Now he's a 3rd yr electrical apprentice and the boss loves him, because he's a hard worker/brilliant learner and shows up every day on time. (He's 40 yrs old)

ananda

(33,430 posts)
49. That is so great!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:14 PM
Sep 22

My niece has found her vocation also and is going
to be a vetinary assistant; and she has a wonderful
boyfriend.

It wasn't always this great, believe me. But
knowing the issue was key, and now she's doing
well.

Hi back!

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
55. Yes once the dx is made there can be early intervention.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 05:36 AM
Sep 23

And with such support a person can function in society.

Today kids with autism are fairly commonplace.

What really caused more problems with kids is the social isolation
and anxiety related to the Covid pandemic. This has really caused problems
and clinicians don't know when these kids will catch up developmentally
and intellectually. (This is from psych colleague still working with kids.)

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
9. Yepper ................someone should ask the ....................fill in the blank...............
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:17 PM
Sep 22

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
3. Trump loves the idea of women being in pain.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:15 PM
Sep 22

They need to tough it out and deal with pain on their own.

Trump is a sadist and enjoys the pain of others.
Especially females.

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
11. Yepper .................he just loves to be a sadistic a**hole and he is a coward.................
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sep 22

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
23. What is really classic is that he is going to bring someone in to taste his food next in his state of paranoia.........
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:32 PM
Sep 22

just like Hitler ..........he used woman to do it see the connection..............

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
27. I have read this is one reason he only eats fast food.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:48 PM
Sep 22

He doesn't trust food prepared for him.
Fast food is anonymous.

He has always had so many enemies, he has been paranoid.

ReRe

(12,055 posts)
50. Cruelty is the first thing I thought of when he said those words.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:16 PM
Sep 22

"Impregnate 'em and then let 'em suffer".

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
54. Yes his comments about women putting up with pain were quite telling.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 05:17 AM
Sep 23

He didn't need to add those comments but they showed his motives.

Irish_Dem

(75,589 posts)
57. Good question.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:51 AM
Sep 23

How does someone so evil keep getting more power and money.
Keep getting rewarded.
While good decent people are being punished.

leftstreet

(37,402 posts)
4. He and his buddies must have shorted the stock
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:15 PM
Sep 22

There's just no other explanation that makes sense to me

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
24. He is more than an ass he is a traitor.................who tried to over throw votes............
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:33 PM
Sep 22

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
13. Probably so.................using bitcoins.................that are just like Bennie babies dolls............
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sep 22

D. Spaulding

(400 posts)
12. Sorry if this sounds angry, but this is the most fucking
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sep 22

irresponsible thing I've ever seen a president say. Why the fuck are we accepting this? After this stupendous stupidity, every single responsible adult should be hammering him, every media outlet, and every politician, no matter what side you're on.

turbinetree

(26,601 posts)
15. Because a US Senate and corrupt Roberts Courts has given this coward the means and the power to do this................
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:23 PM
Sep 22

not once but twice they failed in there job description and they also enabled a person the court by the name of Gorsuch to be on that court with another president was denied the advise and consent rule ...........and Mitch McConnell should be called out for this shit show every time ..........and currently we have a maga senate that is doing exactly what.................. rubber stamping this fascist corrupt system...................my rant

senseandsensibility

(24,015 posts)
21. Because the free press who covers this WH
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:30 PM
Sep 22

has decided to act as stenographers instead of doing their constitutional duty, and the rest of us have no way to call him out on his inane and dangerous statements.

wolfie001

(6,235 posts)
45. Don't forget this lady who's been along for the ride up to this day
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:16 PM
Sep 22

Biggest sane-washer out there. Maggie Haberman





Klarkashton

(4,139 posts)
14. So this is the big September Autism announcement that they have promised for months?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:22 PM
Sep 22

JFC this is an embarrassment of the 1st kind. Old stale debunked bullshit nothing.

Kennedy is a dimwit fucking fraud. Did we pay for a "study" or did they look this up with Chat GBT?

struggle4progress

(124,695 posts)
19. Listening to people like Donnie can cause your brain cells to die and lower your IQ
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:28 PM
Sep 22

Men who hear him suddenly find they have no balls, guts, or spine

Nearby women suddenly feel sexually assaulted

These are scientific facts, that are also based in how I feel

democrank

(11,809 posts)
20. Wait just a minute....
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:30 PM
Sep 22

Trump was so very right about bleach and Covid that I’m going to go with him on this Tylenol thing. Trump must have spoken with experts in the medical field because it would have been extremely reckless to come up with this on his own. He’s just not a reckless guy.Ask Epstein. Oh, wait….

rampartd

(2,490 posts)
22. people only tell him what he wants to hear
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:32 PM
Sep 22

and then he "feels" an answer which i am supposed to accept?

this is madness.

Aussie105

(7,265 posts)
32. So it was the Tylenol? Trump reveals the link to autism!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:09 PM
Sep 22

And there I was, blaming drinking water that came through lead pipes, fetal alcohol syndrome, genetics, poor childhood nutrition and other stuff!

Thanks for the heads up there, Sir!
Looking forward to you publishing your in-depth research papers.

. . . me wanders off to flush Tylenol down the toilet, so I don't catch that there auty-ism!

With announcements like that, you know that Trump really cares about people.
We are in safe hands!

I'm screaming EPSTEIN!!!! at the top of my voice right now, for no particular reason.

Aussie105

(7,265 posts)
33. Dorothy (Wiz of Oz reference)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:22 PM
Sep 22

would have a hard time deciding if Trump was related to the cowardly lion, the tinman without a heart, or the strawman without a heart.

Related to all three, Dorothy!

slightlv

(6,628 posts)
41. I think there's a reason behind this madness.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:10 PM
Sep 22

Once upon a time, Bruno Bettelheim blamed childhood schizophrenia on mothers, specifically their actions or nonactions. For decades, mothers were made to feel guilty and blamed.

This is just another attack on women. And it's not even very well disguised. Why not just say Tylenol screws up sperm? Oh... but that might hurt men's feelings!

Diraven

(1,617 posts)
43. Honestly I'm surprised
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:14 PM
Sep 22

That he didn't push Ivermectin horse dewormer. That's the official MAGA cure-all now.

Javaman

(64,573 posts)
44. Don't you worry, I'm sure all the repukes stocked up before this jackass announcement
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:16 PM
Sep 22

Be sure to either buy J&J short or wait till it tanks and buy it low. It’s already taking a hit

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,462 posts)
59. MaddowBlog-'Violence against the truth': Obama takes aim at Trump's bogus Tylenol claims
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:28 PM
Thursday

After seeing his successor’s radical rhetoric about medicine and vaccines, the former Democratic president apparently felt the need to speak out.

Days before leaving office, @barackobama.bsky.social said he’d largely remain on the sidelines, except when “our core values” are at stake.

Nine years later, Obama is apparently seeing our core values in jeopardy with increasing frequency. Take this week, for example www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-25T16:26:15.157Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/violence-truth-obama-takes-aim-trumps-bogus-tylenol-claims-rcna233690
Nearly nine years later, Obama is apparently seeing our core values in jeopardy with increasing frequency. Take this week, for example. Politico reported:

Barack Obama has accused President Donald Trump of ‘violence against the truth’ for linking autism to the use of Tylenol by pregnant women. The former president made a direct attack on his successor that was as rare for its forcefulness as for its setting — an arena stage on foreign soil in London on Wednesday — as he warned that the Trump administration’s claims undermine public health.


Speaking to a large crowd at London’s O2 Arena, the former president said, “We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office, making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved.”

He added, “The degree to which that undermines public health, the degree to which that can do harm to women who are pregnant, the degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic — which, by the way, itself is subject to a spectrum, and a lot of what is being trumpeted as these massive increases actually have to do with a broadening of the criteria across that spectrum so that people can actually get services and help. All of that is violence against the truth.”.

And while it’s true that Obama was speaking at the time to a foreign audience, it’s also true that he wanted a domestic audience to be aware of his comments: The Democrat promoted excerpts from his appearance, including his Trump criticisms, via social media.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) 2025-09-25T14:02:35.168Z


This was notable in its own right, especially given how dangerous Trump’s misguided claims about medicine, vaccines and public health have been. But circling back to our recent coverage, it’s also worth emphasizing the recent pattern involving the former president.,,,,,

In September, Obama slammed Trump for politicizing the Charlie Kirk shooting and not doing more to unite the country, before taking rhetorical aim at the right’s recent efforts to undermine the First Amendment.

A week later, the former president also shared a few thoughts about his successor’s anti-Tylenol rant.

When thinking about Trump’s most prominent and most vocal Democratic critics, Obama does not spring immediately to mind. That, however, is starting to change.
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