President Donald Trump advised pregnant women to abstain from using Tylenol after the administration made an unproven claim about the pain reliever’s key ingredient, acetaminophen, and autism. No study has demonstrably shown a link. The president also made unproven and false claims about childhood vaccines, admitting at one point that his vaccine recommendation is “based on what I feel.”

“The bulk of scientific literature suggests no causal link between autism and exposure to acetaminophen in the womb, and Tylenol is widely considered the safest treatment for pain and fever during pregnancy,” CNBC reported.

Trump in a press conference told pregnant women, “if you can’t tough it out, if you can’t do it… That’s what you’re gonna have to do. You take a Tylenol, but it’ll be very sparingly.”

The President suggested that “ideally,” the decision to take Tylenol should be “a doctor’s decision, ’cause I think you shouldn’t take it, and you shouldn’t take it during the entire pregnancy.”

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“I just recommend strongly that you don’t use Tylenol, unless it’s absolutely necessary,” he said, adding that it should be taken only if “you can’t tough it out.”

“I just want to say it like it is. Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take it,” Trump insisted. “Fight like hell not to take it.”

The President also “raised unfounded concerns about vaccines,” the Associated Press reported. “Any concern that vaccines could be linked to autism has been long debunked, stress scientists and leading advocacy groups for people with autism.”

“So, ideally, a woman won’t take Tylenol, and on the vaccines, it would be good instead of one visit where they pump the baby loaded up with stuff,” Trump continued. “You do it over a period of four times or five times.”

Trump described the childhood vaccines process, which is a series of shots taken over a period of years, as “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,” he said, falsely.

“The MMR,” Trump added, referring to the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine, “I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel.”

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“The three should be taken separately,” he added. “It seems to be that when you mix them, there could be a problem,” he added, without citing any evidence.

Public health experts point to two reasons why childhood vaccines should be taken together. First, to ensure a child gets all the vaccines necessary with no missed doses due to miss appointments, and two, to ensure a child is protected as early as possible.

Critics blasted the President.

“Medical advice from the president who urged Americans to inject disinfectant,” wrote The Atlantic’s David Frum.

Trump: “Asceda — well, let’s see how we say that. Ascenem — enophin. Acetaminophen. Is that okay?” pic.twitter.com/EVp7IGSksk

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2025

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U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) blasted President Donald Trump and his administration, decrying a lack of “moral clarity” from the White House while denouncing the “populist” President as “not unifying.”

Congressman Bacon said “absolutely” that President Trump should tone down his rhetoric.

“He’s a populist. He centers on anger and opposition. That’s what he does. But he had a chance to be more Ronald Reagan and try to unify both sides on this,” Bacon said of the Charlie Kirk assassination.  “It would be one thing that was old Republicans being murdered, but it’s not.”

He also said he hopes the Trump makeover of the Republican Party is “not a permanent remaking.”

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Hate Speech and Threatening the Media

“There have been some wrong statements made, to say the least. When Attorney General [Bondi] said that they were gonna go after hate speech — she backed off of that. But it was wrong,” Congressman Bacon, who is retiring at the end of his term, told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday. “And I think the president doing threats against media is also wrong. We don’t threaten the media.”

“To threaten media, and so you’re gonna pull their license, that’s not what America’s about. And we do have a freedom of speech, freedom of the press. We should defend that.”

“We have to acknowledge, Republicans and Democrats have been murdered in the last year. And someone tried to burn the house down of the governor of Pennsylvania — wasn’t a guy from the right, it was a antisemitic guy, going after Governor Shapiro, because he’s Jewish.”

“From the White House, we’re hearing, this is just a liberal problem,” Raju said.

“That’s… Not very unifying,” Bacon said. “I don’t think it’s accurate, for one, and it’s not unifying. He had the opportunity here to say, to acknowledge a couple of Democrats were murdered in Minneapolis. Right? By a guy who called himself pro-life. We don’t really know his motive, but still, he surely was more on the conservative side, it seems, from what we know.”

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“I do think that we, as officeholders, though, should there should be a line we draw.”

Bacon denounced both Democrats and Republicans using extremist words to characterize each other.

“My point is, we’ve overdone it,” he said, while warning that “there’s a small part of our population that, yeah, they take it serious, and they’re radicalized. So I think we owe ourselves better at how we treat each other.”

Tariffs

“I think he is, by far,” overreaching on tariffs, Bacon continued.

“Article I of the Constitution clearly gives us, the Congress,” he said, power over tariffs.

“Iowa and Nebraska are really struggling right now with our farm economy. We are not growing markets for corn and soybeans. The president’s making trade deals, but not a single country that I can see has bought more corn soybeans. That’s what we really need right now.”

Russia

“Reagan stood up to Gorbachev,” Bacon said of the late GOP and Soviet Union Presidents.

“I don’t I don’t see the moral clarity right now out of the White House. Ronald Reagan had moral clarity.”

“Now, he also was willing to negotiate and try to lower the tensions, but he knew that communism was evil, and he, and he, it was clear that he stood steadfast with our NATO allies. And the president sends out such mixed messages on NATO, and totally moral, ambiguous messages about Ukraine and Russia.”

When asked about the President’s “moral character,” Bacon refused to answer directly.

Don Bacon, a retiring R in swing district, says:
-Trump missed chance to unite country. “He centers on anger and opposition”
– Faults Trump on 1A
-Says tariffs hurting voters
– Says Trump lacking “moral clarity” on Russia
-Won’t say if Trump’s character is what he wants in POTUS pic.twitter.com/9fSJSzi7f2

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 22, 2025

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that addressing the small number of mass shootings committed by transgender Americans begins with designating Antifa, a loosely organized anti-fascist movement, as a domestic terrorist group.

President Donald Trump on Sunday was asked about “transgender extremism,” and whether the FBI should be investigating. “We’re looking at it very strongly,” he said. “Something seems to be going on but you can’t make that statement yet.”

Factcheck.org reported last week that the Gun Violence Archive “lists five mass shootings by transgender or nonbinary people since January 2013. That’s less than 0.1% of the mass shootings it says happened in that period.”

The Daily Wire’s Mary Olohan on Monday asked Leavitt the question again.

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Listing three incidents, including the Charlie Kirk assassination which reportedly was not committed by a transgender shooter, Olohan said: “I asked the president last night on Air Force One about this pattern of transgender violence, we’re seeing, um, you know, Charlie’s, Charlie’s killer, lived with his boyfriend, who identifies as transgender, and then we have the Annunciation shooting. Covenant shooting. All of these incidents. The president said that we’re looking into transgender violence. Does that mean the FBI is looking into it, and can you give any more clarity on how the administration is viewing this uptaking, specifically, transgender violence?”

Leavitt responded, calling it “definitely something worth looking into, and I think anyone who denies that at this point is being willfully ignorant.”

Professing that the “administration is taking it seriously, all causes of violence, and why these people would be driven to such evil and such hatred.”

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She said that “there’s probably many answers to that question, but the administration is really focused on all of them.”

“For individuals, investigations, and cases, of course, the FBI and the Department of Justice are leading those.”

“But as for this overall, violence and domestic terrorism that we’re seeing, the White House and the president’s policy team will be leading the charge, and that really begins with designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.”

Attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick remarked, “In a time when we should be bringing down the temperature, the White House is deliberately choosing to fan the flames of division.”

Q: Can you give clarity on how the administration is viewing this uptick in specifically transgender violence?

LEAVITT: It’s definitely something worth looking into and I think anyone who denies that at this point is being willfully ignorant pic.twitter.com/CQxEGCrKHQ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2025

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