Trump Unloads Bonkers Theory for How Kids Get Autism

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Source: The Daily Beast

Trump Unloads Bonkers Theory for How Kids Get Autism

Emell Derra Adolphus
Thu, May 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM EDT 2 min read

President Donald Trump said he has tasked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with determining how autism is “artificially induced” in children.

The MAGA president made the head-scratching claim during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission press conference on Thursday at the White House, moments after the release of a commission assessment “exposing root causes of childhood chronic disease crisis.”

“When you hear 10,000, it was 1 in 10,000, and now it’s 1 in 31 for autism, I think that’s just a terrible thing,” said Trump to a room full of reporters. He added, “It has to be something on the outside, has to be artificially induced, has to be.”

Medical experts have pushed back on Trump and RFK Jr.’s characterization of such figures as an “epidemic,” with many saying the change can be largely chalked up to better autism screenings.

Yet that hasn’t stopped MAHA from running wild with their claims.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-unloads-bonkers-theory-kids-233035900.html

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[pfitz59]

1. Doctor Trump speaks!

All must listen!

[Prairie Gates]

2. Our descent into being a total clown country has been relatively rapid, historically

[0rganism]

8. One might even suppose it was artificially induced

Has to be!

[dweller]

3. He's an ignorant shithead

I’m surprised he knows how to breathe .
He’s just looking for an excuse to blame the condition on .
If it were discovered it was exacerbated by forever chemicals he wouldn’t accept it and would be looking for some other ‘ left wing ‘ practice that ‘induced it’

F’n idiot


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[Passages]

4. I despise Trump and his idiotic dangerous friend, RFK Jr.

This is all about giving that moron predator a free reign.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Though I obviously have no hard evidence, I still suspect

that Barron is on the spectrum. Trump can't handle that his son isn't perfect and exceptional on his terms. And this would explain Trump's obsession with autism.

Videos on YouTube show Barron more vivacious, more articulate, etc. when he was 3 or 4. Now he rarely speaks and his gaze is fixed. I'm no psychiatrist to diagnose autism, but there has been a change.

[struggle4progress]

6. I suspect listening to conservative drivel damages vulnerable young minds

[WmChris]

7. What's next

Before you know it he'll be pushing bleach enemas.

[milestogo]

9. Funny, I don't remember him being concerned about the environment in any way.

If you're going to de-regulate pollutants to please corporations, you're going to get an increase in a lot of things.