Trump's 'tough it out' advice to expectant moms is the latest example of men opining on women's pain (AP)

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Trump’s ‘tough it out’ advice to expectant moms is the latest example of men opining on women’s pain

By LAURIE KELLMAN
Updated 6:34 PM CDT, September 23, 2025
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From the pulpit of the presidency, Donald Trump offered some advice to pregnant women: “Tough it out” before taking Tylenol.

Nine times in all, Trump said expectant mothers should suffer through their discomfort instead of reaching for acetaminophen — or paracetamol in countries outside the U.S. — to cure their fevers or headaches, despite the drug being one of the few painkillers that pregnant women are allowed to take.

“Fight like hell not to take it,” Trump instructed at a Monday news conference meant to address autism. He added that if pregnant women absolutely have to take Tylenol, that’ll be something that they “work out with themselves.”

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“His use of ‘tough it out’ really was infuriating because it dismissed women’s pain and the real danger that exists with fever and miscarriage during pregnancy,” said women’s rights advocate and social media influencer Amanda Tietz, a 46-year-old mom of three in Wisconsin, in an email. “Not to mention the pain we can experience in pregnancy that can be debilitating.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tough-it-out-pregnancy-women-pain-acetaminophen-dc48caddabef2f086a50b48c5b86a3ca


I wouldn't put it past them to ban epidurals during labor.

[Irish_Dem]

1. No anesthetic for women during surgery. They need to tough it out.

[IcyPeas]

2. ... Ivanka or Lara care to opine?

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Princess probably hired a Greek chorus to indulge her every wish

so that her precious little self didn’t have to worry or strain anything till she could go to the hospital, have the baby removed and hand it over to the nanny.

[Johonny]

3. Love to know the shit Trump's on

It's a hell of a lot stronger than Tylenol I'm betting.

[Tree Lady]

10. Exactly he doesn't tough anything out

Every time I think I despise the guy he says or does something that makes me hate him more.

How any woman voted for him, she should be ashamed!!

[UpInArms]

5. More woman blaming by the whiny snowflake orange toddler

Fuck him

[Diamond_Dog]

6. That big coward has a nerve telling anybody to "tough it out."

Dismissing women’s pain too. He manages to become more despicable every day.

[Totally Tunsie]

7. Hey Jackass...Women "tough it out" and then we "spit it out"*

Let's see you tough guys do the same.

*Absolutely no disrespect to expectant women was intended by this nomenclature. In fact, quite the opposite.

[Solly Mack]

8. ...

[mwmisses4289]

9. Says the guy who looks like he is so drugged up

that he doesn't know what pain is.