"It will cost lives": Trump says he'll talk with RFK Jr. about discouraging childhood vaccines

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Salon

Published December 12, 2024 4:25PM (EST)


In an interview with TIME Magazine published Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump said that he would discuss ending child vaccination programs with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist he has nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Asked if he would approve of any decision by Kennedy to end vaccination programs — insofar as he has that power, which is largely delegated to the states — Trump cited autism as a reason why he might. "We're going to have a big discussion," he said. "The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there's something causing it." His administration would get rid of some vaccinations if "I think it's dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial," Trump added.

Trump and Kennedy have long invoked a connection between autism and vaccines, even though studies continue to show there is none; most experts believe there are statistically more autistic individuals now than before because of improved diagnostic practices.

Many of the claims that vaccines cause autism can be traced back to a retracted 1998 study in The Lancet that has been widely discredited by subsequent research. Their debunked views on a range of medical topics — and Trump's promises to listen to Kennedy's counsel — have alarmed the scientific community over the possible implications on people's health and safety.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/12/12/it-will-cost-lives-says-hell-talk-with-rfk-jr-about-discouraging-childhood-vaccines/

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More killing off the populace.

[melm00se]

1. All of Trump's kids

are in the age range to have been vaccinated.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Since he never takes responsibility for anything, perhaps he is thinking his sons are idiots because they got vaccines.

[johnnyfins]

10. No. He'll blame that on Ivana

And curse her grave everytime he passes that tee...

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump will get rid of vaccines he thinks are dangerous.

This from a man who is barely literate and cannot tolerate a briefing unless it is mostly pictures.

[Solly Mack]

11. That part stood out for me too.

[travelingthrulife]

20. Exactly. My barely homeschooled fundie niece says she won't vaccinate her kids

then adds, "Except for the important ones [vaccines]."

They know nothing except what they read on the walls of whatever internet rat hole they end up in.

[Irish_Dem]

21. All the vaccines are important.

[Klarkashton]

4. Why this absurd shit is even being discussed is madness.

Trump is listening to that stupid fraud because it helped him stay out of jail/get elected. The press is accepting this as if trump was a wise person. JFC.

[groundloop]

5. So HE will decide about vaccines instead of listening to health experts.... what could possibly go wrong?

This country is so fucked up right now..... any whacko who listens to podcasts thinks they know more about vaccinations than Dr. Fauci and other experts who have devoted their entire careers to the subject.

[3825-87867]

6. Don't know why we even need physicians

who studied for 8+ years to "do no harm" when all we need is to ask Dr. Stump or nearly every other Republican Politician for their inteligent diagnosis of anything medical.
As a matter of fact, why even make an appointment with your PCP when it's obvious politicians and religious nuts know much more about what is right and wrong with the human body?
BUT...we all need to call ANY of them out when they get their yearly physical from a bona fide physician or are ill or even need hospitalization. Let's have the MSM ask them why don't they get RFK to check them out and sign a statement saying they are A-OK? (Sorry, just kidding. Jr would probably make a house call!) That way, we could say a bundle on paying for their health care!

[thesquanderer]

7. Yet something else happening "at a level that nobody ever believed possible"...

...while the only thing that really applies to is the amount of nonsense and bs that can come out of a president's mouth.

[rurallib]

8. fucking murderer

[cstanleytech]

9. Trump will probably recommend anal UV lights to treat kids that become sick.

[Marthe48]

12. But if parents want their kids to have vaccines they will be able to get them?

Are pro-vaxxers going to have to set up back alley clinics to get preventative care for their families?

I'm glad I'm old.

[LisaL]

14. Vaccines won't work well if large number of population remain un-vaccinated.

NT

[tclambert]

13. Do you mean to say elections are not just games, Blue vs. Red? That lives hang in the balance?

But how do we get that through to the fans of the Red team? They only seem to care that their team wins, no matter what it takes.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Seen many cases of polio or smallpox lately?

[lonely bird]

16. Oh, goodie

Trump will talk to RFK, Jr.

Well, I feel much better now.

Fucking pair of idiots.

[PortTack]

17. Oh sure...he'll talk to rfk....does anybody think he gives a rats if kids die? Did we forget the covid pandemic

GD it we did! Otherwise we as a country would’ve not elected this fascist murdering fool

[Karasu]

18. Hard line in the sand. This country won't be worth living in if they do this and we end up being ruled by

plague rats.

[sop]

19. "Excuse me, Mr. Trump, Sir...Big Pharma's on the line...they say the billion$ paid to your Trump PAC was to get

rid of price controls and increase profits, not eliminate childhood vaccines by pushing crazy conspiracy theories."

[Martin68]

22. I may be mistaken, but I'm thinking this is just the beginning of serious infighting in the Trump administration

as result of his absurd appointments of incompetents and loonies. This could tie them up to the point that their ambitious agenda to destroy our democracy and impose a dictatorship on the country will wither on the vine.

[Granny Blue]

23. If they do this I will simply never leave the house again.

I will wear a mask to accept grocery deliveries and they will carry me out feet first. I won’t give them the satisfaction of killing me. I will live to collect my Social Security and bleed them dry. Resistance!