Which is worse, Trump and RFK Jr.’s autism nonsense, or Trump standing before world leaders telling them they won’t be great again until they start burning more fossil fuels? The common thread is the imbecile, Trump.
They both appeal to conservatives; on the first point, conservatives distrust “big pharma” and like simplistic answers to everything.
The Atlantic, Tom Bartlett, 22 Sept 2025: Trump Tells Pregnant Women to ‘Fight Like Hell’ Not to Take Tylenol, subtitled “The president has given autism the MAHA treatment.”
Note the last line of this first paragraph.
At a press conference today, President Donald Trump dispensed one clear piece of medical advice to American parents in a rambling, repetitive monologue: Don’t. Take. Tylenol. He told pregnant women that they could help keep their children safe from autism by not taking the drug whenever they could avoid it (“fight like hell,” he instructed). He advised parents not to give Tylenol to their young children. He denounced giving the hepatitis B vaccine to infants and suggested that parents space out their children’s immunization schedule. (“They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies, it’s a disgrace,” he said.) He declared that children ideally should be given the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines separately, though such individual shots are not available in the United States. “This is based on what I feel,” the president said.
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I’m not going to spend much time on this. But various folks on Fb are pointing out that a recommended treatment for autism, a drug called leucovorin, or folinic acid, just happens to be sold by a California supplemental retailer called iHerb, in which Dr. Oz is an investor. Here’s a Newsweek item about that, that says Oz will divest his shares of that company. At the same time, there are other articles, like this one at The Daily Beast, that says “Dr. Oz Splits from Trump on Tylenol After Autism Tirade.”
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On the UN speech.
Slate, Fred Kaplan, 23 Sept 2025: This Might Be Trump’s Most Bonkers Speech Yet, subtitled “And that’s really saying something!”
It was, among other things, unrelentingly, embarrassingly—and, most of all, delusionally—egomaniacal. The whole first section claimed, in language that seemed borrowed from textbooks of Communist Party congresses, the many ways that, in just eight months, he has transformed the U.S. from the “ruinous” “calamity” of “Sleepy Joe Biden” to “the hottest country anywhere in the world … indeed the Golden Age of America … the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
He also repeated the, let us say, extreme exaggeration, recited in many domestic forums, that he personally ended seven wars—“no president or prime minister, no country, has ever done anything close to that … everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements,” adding that, while he was “working to save millions of lives,” the United Nations—the institution that was hosting him—did nothing.
And then he went on with what must be the most irresponsible statements by any world leader in the 21st century.
Finally came the section of the speech that must have made even his friends (or pretend friends) roll their eyes—his attack on migration and the green-energy “hoax” as the main reasons why the countries of Europe “are going to hell.” In America, the “millions” of mentally ill criminals who were let loose through open borders caused “unmitigated crime sprees.” (He has repeated this falsehood so many times, many believe it must be true. In fact, the crime rate among immigrants is lower than it is among native-born Americans.) The Europeans allow this because they’re “politically correct” and because the Islamic mayor of London—“a terrible, terrible mayor”—wants to establish Sharia law.
Meanwhile, “global warming” is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” invented by radicals who want to bring down industrialized countries while letting rules-breakers like China thrive. Windmills “rust and rot,” they depend on subsidies, and don’t work when the wind isn’t blowing. America is thriving, he said, because we’re going back (so he claimed, with no supporting evidence) to “clean beautiful coal.” (His “standing order” in the White House is “never to use the word ‘coal,’ only ‘clean, beautiful coal’—it sounds much better, doesn’t it?”)
“I’m really good at this stuff,” Trump bragged. “Your countries are going to hell. … I’m really good at predicting things. I’ve been right about everything.”
And went on to claim is poll numbers are very high, whereas in fact they’re very low.
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Reactions.
AlterNet, David Badash, 23 Sept 2025: ‘Astounded and speechless’: Diplomats bash Trump’s ‘stark raving mad’ UN speech
PolitiFact, 23 Sept 2025: Fact-check: Trump misleads about ending 7 wars, US economy, renewable energy in UN speech
NY Times, 23 Sept 2025: Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’
Subtitled: “In a remarkable United Nations address, the president lashed out at wind turbines, environmentalists and allies around the world while dismissing the dangers of climate change.”
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I’m truly baffled why people like Donald Trump. To me, he seems like a plant bent on destroying America, and perhaps the world.
