The president also pressed for major changes to the standard vaccines given to babies.
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In what his critics call a controversial statement, President Donald Trump advised pregnant women not to take pain relievers like acetaminophen or Tylenol, over a hotly debated link between the medicine and autism.
Simultaneously, Trump pressed for major changes to the standard vaccines given to babies, according to Newsmax.
Doctors and experts have long said that acetaminophen is among the safest painkillers to take during pregnancy, especially as fever and pain can also pose dangers to both the mother and the developing fetus. Nevertheless, the President maintained Monday that “taking Tylenol is not good.”
“For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That’s, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever that you feel you can’t tough it out,” he said.
President Trump and RFK Jr.’s autism announcement just set the Internet on fire.
— Children’s Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) September 22, 2025
Tylenol use in pregnancy is linked to autism.
Mixing and overloading vaccines is linked to autism.
Mercury, aluminum, Hep B at birth—Trump and RFK Jr. held NOTHING back.
And they made clear this… pic.twitter.com/bU2MUL3NV7
In addition, Trump then promoted major changes to the routine vaccine schedule for infants, insisting, notwithstanding, without citing details, that there’s “no reason” to vaccinate newborns against the incurable, highly contagious hepatitis B.
Trump’s comments came days after an influential advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped short of advising that a delay of one month of the first dose of hepatitis B was warranted.
The Advisory Panel considered more discussion was necessary — offering temporary relief to many experts in public health who said delaying that shot could have dire results.
Identifying the cause of autism — a complex condition linked to brain development that many experts believe happens for mostly genetic reasons — has been a major goal for Kennedy, who has been dubious over vaccines and questioned whether some approved treatments have contributed to an uptick in autism diagnoses.
Other experts attribute the uptick to better tracking and more comprehensive diagnosis criteria. Earlier this year, Kennedy vowed he would release findings regarding autism’s cause by this month.
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