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riversedge

(79,501 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:41 AM Sep 2025

Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses

Source: daily beast

GIDDY UP
The president got medical ahead of his major autism announcement.


Cameron Adams Sep. 22 2025 4:35AM EDT

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Trump said vaccines “can be great” unless you “put the wrong stuff in them.”

Trump was speaking ahead of a Monday press conference where he suggested vaccine skeptic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has “found an answer to autism.” Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is expected to be blamed.

“Children get these massive vaccines like you’d give to a horse… like you’d give to a horse," he added.

“And I’ve said for a long time, I mean, this is no secret, spread them out over five years. Get five shots, small ones. You ever see what they get they get? I mean, for a little baby to be injected with that much fluid, even beyond the actual ingredients, they have sometimes 80 different vaccines in them. It’s crazy.”.........




Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-goes-on-bizarre-vaccine-rant-about-babies-and-horses/



This article about vaccines reminds me of how recently has been
Falsely claiming that drug prices will be reduced 1000%!!!




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Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2025 OP
Admittedly, I have no evidence, but no_hypocrisy Sep 2025 #1
If there were something wrong with Barron Jerry2144 Sep 2025 #3
The odds increase with older parents IbogaProject Sep 2025 #24
THIS. Captain Zero Sep 2025 #29
I got neutered at 35 Jerry2144 Sep 2025 #35
Unintentionally humorous typo - the "come" around your neck/ 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #41
Sorry. New cell phone. Very old reading glasses Jerry2144 Sep 2025 #42
What, he cried when he got a shot? ananda Sep 2025 #10
Just remember that Duke, Viscount, Barron, whatevs Aviation Pro Sep 2025 #15
And possibly infused with Adderall? n/t the nelm Sep 2025 #30
Did the "fitness trainer" TommyT139 Sep 2025 #53
My peds NP "spidey sense" has long thought that there is something... 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #40
Autism has been linked to paternal age Iris Sep 2025 #43
As though he has ever been present when his kids received their shots... travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #2
They want to protect babies up to the moment of birth...... SergeStorms Sep 2025 #14
Only in the womb kkmarie Sep 2025 #25
Families used to have like eight children so at least a few lived past puberty. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #4
He says spread them out over 5 years SCantiGOP Sep 2025 #13
Millions of hours by dedicatied specialists that don't know as much as Trump. You believe that and there is no vaccine twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #17
Eighty vaccines? Aristus Sep 2025 #5
Does he think newborns get the series soldiers get when heading overseas? Attilatheblond Sep 2025 #22
Yeah, we got a lot. Six or seven at the same time. But not eighty. Aristus Sep 2025 #27
I don't remember how many I got when the family moved to Panama sdfernando Sep 2025 #47
Listen up maga maha: News flash: Tylenol is not a vaccine. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #6
Just wait until popsdenver Sep 2025 #26
old fart at the end of the counter/bar ranting at clouds Kali Sep 2025 #7
Problem is he's sitting in the middle of the bar Captain Zero Sep 2025 #32
This is demonstrably false. All of it. AllyCat Sep 2025 #8
This "esteemed lady?" surely will wolfie001 Sep 2025 #18
Is he still pushing ivermectin? You remember the horse deworming medicine? tetedur Sep 2025 #9
Pulling numbers out of his ass again. This is complete BULLSHIT. 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #11
Our childhood mortality and morbidity %ages popsdenver Sep 2025 #33
He thinks someone is giving massive amounts of Tylenol to kids? IronLionZion Sep 2025 #12
Advanced paternal age is a well documented autism risk factor Danmel Sep 2025 #16
Going to repeat myself - Imagine how stupid one has to be to think this AssHat is qualified to run the country. NoMoreRepugs Sep 2025 #19
Yeah, what do medical people know about vaccines, anyway? SidneyR Sep 2025 #20
Oh great! He's 'educating' us all again. pandr32 Sep 2025 #21
This would be TheOnion material if it weren't so sad. Nt BadgerKid Sep 2025 #23
Speaking of Horses Coldwater Sep 2025 #28
He seems oddly obsessed with horses. BlueKota Sep 2025 #51
Horse's ass says what?? n/t the nelm Sep 2025 #31
Horse's ass spews more horseshit. Captain Zero Sep 2025 #34
Which is why he touts himself as the STABLE genius! Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2025 #49
I remember him raving about this years ago. boonecreek Sep 2025 #36
We're getting medical advice from Fredo now JoseBalow Sep 2025 #37
Confideracy of Dunces roscoeroscoe Sep 2025 #38
Thank you, dr. trump. (nt) Paladin Sep 2025 #39
The ignorance, and willingness to show it in public, is breathtaking Bayard Sep 2025 #44
Like you'd give to a horse??? moose65 Sep 2025 #45
This from the clown who suggested we inject bleach to fight COVID. Gimpyknee Sep 2025 #46
What Trump says used to be bizarre now it is just everyday rhetoric. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #48
IF a pandemic arises due to anti-vax policy... BurnDoubt Sep 2025 #50
What the fuck do people see in this idiot? Emile Sep 2025 #52
He is so full of shit Figarosmom Sep 2025 #54
Trump is... GiqueCee Sep 2025 #55
Trump's brain has flipped the switch . . . Aussie105 Sep 2025 #56

no_hypocrisy

(54,317 posts)
1. Admittedly, I have no evidence, but
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:47 AM
Sep 2025

I harbor a suspicion that “something happened” to Barron, and Yrump is still blaming it on vaccines.

Jerry2144

(3,180 posts)
3. If there were something wrong with Barron
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:56 AM
Sep 2025

It’s probably due to the defective genes from his father and his upbringing

Jerry2144

(3,180 posts)
35. I got neutered at 35
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:39 AM
Sep 2025

It wasn’t so bad. But that come around my neck chafed. I should have read the sign carefully. I thought it said Veteran clinic. But I did get belly rubs. And they told me I was a good boy

Aviation Pro

(15,259 posts)
15. Just remember that Duke, Viscount, Barron, whatevs
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:29 AM
Sep 2025

Was sired by a 60-year-old broke dick man with defective spunk.

Let that sink in, you fucking pedophile.

3catwoman3

(28,609 posts)
40. My peds NP "spidey sense" has long thought that there is something...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:11 PM
Sep 2025

...not quite right with Barron. I get an "on the spectrum" vibe from him. My husband's daughter-in-law, who is a psychiatric NP, agrees.

travelingthrulife

(4,463 posts)
2. As though he has ever been present when his kids received their shots...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:53 AM
Sep 2025

Donnie, the immune system doesn't work that way. Infectious diseases don't care if it's a baby. The baby has no immunity except what it is given. Our job is to protect them, isn't it?

SergeStorms

(20,002 posts)
14. They want to protect babies up to the moment of birth......
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:27 AM
Sep 2025

after that it's all "in god's hands."

SCantiGOP

(14,664 posts)
13. He says spread them out over 5 years
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:08 AM
Sep 2025

The problem is, depending on which order they are in, many of the kids will have died before they get 5 years old.

twodogsbarking

(17,591 posts)
17. Millions of hours by dedicatied specialists that don't know as much as Trump. You believe that and there is no vaccine
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:39 AM
Sep 2025

for your problem.

Attilatheblond

(8,320 posts)
22. Does he think newborns get the series soldiers get when heading overseas?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:18 AM
Sep 2025

Pretty sure soldiers get a lot of shots in a short period of time, but not eighty, surely.

He knows so little he just pulls numbers outta his ass. He does know a lot of his followers are dumb enough to believe him and never check actual sources.

Aristus

(71,675 posts)
27. Yeah, we got a lot. Six or seven at the same time. But not eighty.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:26 AM
Sep 2025

Plus, we got overseas vaccines more than once. I got typhoid and some others when I was ordered to Germany. Hated it; hurt my arm like hell. Then had to get them again when we were deployed to the Gulf in 1991. I told the medic I had already had the typhoid shot. He said: "Well, you're getting it again."

It never would have occurred to me to refuse, or to disobey. So when I heard there were soldiers during COVID-19 who were refusing vaccination, I couldn't help but think they joined the wrong organization if they thought they could refuse orders.

sdfernando

(6,023 posts)
47. I don't remember how many I got when the family moved to Panama
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:08 PM
Sep 2025

for 3-years back in the late 60s. I was just about to start kindergarten....Anyway, it was quite a few shots, but I took them like a champ! It was NO WHERE NEAR 80! Maybe 5 or six.

popsdenver

(1,571 posts)
26. Just wait until
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:25 AM
Sep 2025

the corporation that is the manufacturer of Tylenol hears that he erroneously criticized their brand in a public statement......

Kali

(56,647 posts)
7. old fart at the end of the counter/bar ranting at clouds
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:36 AM
Sep 2025

we shouldn't elect them president.

Captain Zero

(8,751 posts)
32. Problem is he's sitting in the middle of the bar
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:33 AM
Sep 2025

That's why there's so much fighting and arguing.

AllyCat

(18,539 posts)
8. This is demonstrably false. All of it.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:40 AM
Sep 2025

And yet the M$M will stenograph it like the good little lackeys they are.

tetedur

(1,407 posts)
9. Is he still pushing ivermectin? You remember the horse deworming medicine?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:45 AM
Sep 2025

Is he conflating ivermectin with covid vaccines? I need an interpreter. . . .

3catwoman3

(28,609 posts)
11. Pulling numbers out of his ass again. This is complete BULLSHIT.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:56 AM
Sep 2025

The schedule of recommended pediatric vaccines, as of Aug 7 2025 on the DC site:

Birth thru 18 months - 10 vaccines protecting against 14 different illnesses (9 if the MMRV is used instead of MMR)

Protection against more diseases is available with many fewer antigens per vaccine. Here's a brief excerpt from a 2024 article by a peds infectious disease doc:

Today’s expanded schedule protects against 16-18 diseases, but the total antigen count is about 165. That’s about a 95% reduction in antigen exposure, thanks to precision engineering that strips vaccines down to only the components necessary for protection.

Vaccine expert Paul Offit and colleagues calculated that a baby could theoretically respond to 10,000 vaccines simultaneously before using even one percent of circulating B-cells. The real-world schedule barely registers on the immune system’s capacity.


Here's the whole article for those who might be interested: https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/too-many-too-soon-vaccine-schedule-children-antigens-immune-system-aluminum/

And the volume of fluid in each injection is miniscule - usually 0.5-1.0 cc/mL

And one more link discussing infant immune systems. They are not "weak" - babies are exposed to thousands of antigens the moment they are delivered from the uterine environment and handle most of them just fine. The vaccines are timed to protect them from those to which they are most vulnerable at these early ages: https://asm.org/articles/2024/september/baby-immune-systems-not-immature-just-different

I'm so glad I'm retired and don't have to argue this shit with antivax parents anymore.

popsdenver

(1,571 posts)
33. Our childhood mortality and morbidity %ages
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:34 AM
Sep 2025

are already high compared to many most other civilized nations..........

JUST WAIT.........YOU MAGAot Morons, you ain't seen nothing yet................

The Republicans are also just setting the stage for another Pandemic, quite possibly far worse than Covid......

Think of the Swine Flu Pandemic in 1918, etc

IronLionZion

(50,836 posts)
12. He thinks someone is giving massive amounts of Tylenol to kids?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:01 AM
Sep 2025


Or even massive amounts of vaccines, of which Tylenol is not.

NoMoreRepugs

(11,808 posts)
19. Going to repeat myself - Imagine how stupid one has to be to think this AssHat is qualified to run the country.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:57 AM
Sep 2025

The fact that 80mm+ thinks so is terrifying.

SidneyR

(206 posts)
20. Yeah, what do medical people know about vaccines, anyway?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:01 AM
Sep 2025

Just because medical scientists studied these things for years doesn't mean they know anything, right? And yes, that's snark.

My doctor once told me our bodies are assaulted by viruses all the time. Combining vaccines is not a strain on the body at all. The notion is just plain ignorant.

pandr32

(13,805 posts)
21. Oh great! He's 'educating' us all again.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:08 AM
Sep 2025

No body has a brain like him, and the thinking--he has the best thinking!

Coldwater

(957 posts)
28. Speaking of Horses
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:29 AM
Sep 2025

Wasn't it trump who pushed the horse dewormer Ivermectin as one of the cures for Covid-19

boonecreek

(1,393 posts)
36. I remember him raving about this years ago.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:43 AM
Sep 2025

When he was on the "vaccines cause autism" bandwagon.

Bayard

(28,646 posts)
44. The ignorance, and willingness to show it in public, is breathtaking
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:43 PM
Sep 2025

I give my own shots to our animals, including the horses and donkeys. The amount you use is determined roughly on what the animal weighs. Our 500 lb mini's get much less than my 1,500 pound Warmblood. They get them once a year.

He's right about one thing--80 different vaccines in one shot is crazy. Kennedy is really filling him with bullshit.

moose65

(3,440 posts)
45. Like you'd give to a horse???
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:46 PM
Sep 2025

But wait - aren't the MAGAs all about giving everyone Ivermectin, which is given to horses???

BurnDoubt

(1,488 posts)
50. IF a pandemic arises due to anti-vax policy...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:24 PM
Sep 2025

Will he be held accountable, or will he have Immunity? (The Irony is inescapable!)
Oh, that's an interesting segue!
Seriously, will history assign responsibility for thousands of deaths stemming from this trend?
Poo Tee Weet?

GiqueCee

(3,428 posts)
55. Trump is...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:37 PM
Sep 2025

... a malicious imbecile. Kennedy the Lesser is a perfect example of Trump's malice and staggering stupidity.
Kennedy, like Trump, cannot stand not being the center of attention, so he'll do anything to get that attention, no matter how outrageous or dangerous to everyone around him. His next stunt will be to claim that air causes autism, so everyone stop breathing!

Aussie105

(7,654 posts)
56. Trump's brain has flipped the switch . . .
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:27 PM
Sep 2025

from sane garbage to random insane garbage.

Does your mouth have an Off switch? - use it Donny!

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