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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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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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s speech at Sunday’s Charlie Kirk memorial in Phoenix drew comparisons from national security experts to rhetoric used in 1930s Germany.

Miller portrayed Kirk, who was killed earlier this month, as a martyr and symbol for the MAGA movement. He described the commentator’s death as the catalyst for what he called a struggle between good and evil.

The Steady State, a group of more than 330 former national security officials, likened Miller’s remarks to those made by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Miller presented a tribute that “mirrors Goebbels’ 1932 speech with storm/warrior metaphors, ‘good vs evil’ binaries, and turning adversaries into destroyers while glorifying martyrdom,” the group charged.

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“In a climate marked by rising authoritarianism,” they wrote, “reviving fascist rhetoric is a red flag as it conditions the public for authoritarian rule.”

In follow up, the group added: “Miller casts the opposition as envy, hatred, and pure destruction. That’s not mobilization—it’s dehumanization. Defining half the country as wicked and illegitimate is the core of fascism: exile and exclusion, not democratic contest.”

Anders Åslund, an economist and former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council wrote simply: “This sounds like Goebbels’ speech at Horst Wessel’s funeral in 1930.” After his murder, Goebbels made Wessel into a martyr.

The New Republic characterized Miller’s speech “deranged,” reporting that “MAGA ‘patriots,’ Miller claimed, have inherited a civilizing mission from their ancestors. To continue this mission, save humanity, and continue the legacy of Kirk, he said, they must vanquish the ‘forces of darkness,’ their political opponents.”

“The speech was consistent with Miller’s white nationalist sympathies, penchant for unhinged rants against his political enemies, and apparent mission to use Kirk’s murder as a pretext for broader crackdowns,” wrote TNR’s Robert McCoy.

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Miller’s speech included sweeping language about martyrdom, ancestry, and a battle between light and darkness.

“The day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears have been turned into fire in our hearts. And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand.”

“The storm whispers to the warrior, that ‘You cannot withstand my strength,’ and the warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’ Erica [Kirk] is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion.”

Miller talked about “our” “lineage” and “legacy” — presumably MAGA’s — hailing “back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello.”

“Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry.”

“The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil,” Miller declared. “They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. Because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us? What do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal.”

He did not specifically explain who “they” or “you” are.

Stephen Miller: “We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened…You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal!” pic.twitter.com/uMZfkmjSdF

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 21, 2025

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