c/news · by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 353d

Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/23/rylw-s23.html

President Donald Trump conducted a White House press conference on Monday that stands as the most sweeping assault on science and public health by any sitting president, perhaps only matched by Trump’s infamous April 2020 coronavirus briefing, when he encouraged Americans to inject disinfectant and use ultraviolet light inside their bodies. This latest spectacle represents a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s broader war against science, medicine and healthcare policy.

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Beryl@jlai.lu · 106 pts · 353d (4 replies)

Throughout the hour-long briefing, Trump demonstrated disturbing signs of neurological decline, repeating variations of the phrases “don’t take Tylenol,” “don’t give Tylenol to your child after it’s born,” and “separate the vaccines” literally dozens of times in an unhinged, repetitive pattern that suggested possible dementia or other neurological degeneration. His rambling, often incoherent statements included this verbatim declaration:

"Let’s do it now. Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don’t take it. Don’t take it! And if you can’t live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one, because there’s no alternative to that, sadly. First question: what can you take instead? It’s actually, there’s not an alternative to that. And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean they’ve been proven bad, with the Aspirins and the Advils and others, right? And they’ve been proven bad."

crusa187@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 353d

mentally stable genius if I ever saw one

Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 353d

It can only good happen!!!

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 353d

This is Simple Jack levels of oration.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 352d

I would swear this was AI but AI is way more coherent than this shit.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 353d (8 replies)

Such an utterly pathetic, embarrassing time to be an American with a functional brain.

TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 353d (1 reply)

Listen... We're all pretty fed up with this shit, you're goddamn right about that. But we're all rooting for you guys, like YOU guys, the ones with brains. All of us out here looking in want the good guys to win and the bad guys to lose.

Right now it's in your hands though, you guys need to do something about it, eh?

We all don't want this to become our problem

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 352d

Last time, they needed help from outside. They literally needed to be liberated. Please liberate us lol

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 353d (2 replies)

It is a silly place, with silly people doing silly things. Except replace silly with evil, and we get closer to the truth.

MML@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 353d (1 reply)

Unfortunately it doesn't seem much better elsewhere, at least at one point we could lie to ourselves about that, oh wait no look where that led.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 352d

Iceland seems to have its shit together.

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 353d (2 replies)

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athatet@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 353d (1 reply)

Wow thanks. You fixed fascism.

JandroDelSol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 351d

voting doesn't stop fascism but it can slow it down and buy us time to organize

FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 39 pts · 353d (5 replies)

They're both idiot grifters

A pox on anyone supporting them.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 353d (3 replies)

very likely, I’m afraid

grue@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 353d (2 replies)

Not likely enough, and too likely for non-supporter innocent bystanders.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 353d (1 reply)

We’re gonna have to look up our weed dealers from back in the day for vaccines, aren’t we?

Keelhaul@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 353d

I could see a market for vaccinating Americans abroad in Canada and Mexico if the US continues on this path

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 353d

The good news is a lot of them are stupid enough to get themselves killed.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 353d

And Dr. Oz, in charge of Medicare has a company he promotes that sells the solution. Because of course he does.

merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 353d (2 replies)

I got a sudden urge to re-watch Idiocracy, but I think it will be too mild compared to this.

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 353d (1 reply)

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M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 353d

Yeah idocracy was set 500 years in the future and had a leader that actually tried to give a shit about his people. Now the movie's distopa looks good compared to where the current us is, the terrible sexist stupid future the movie depicted was at least somewhat just and fair. The current trajectory of the States seems like idiotocracy but mean.

"Welcome to Costco, I love you"

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 353d (2 replies)

Man.....history class is going to be hilarious in the future.

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 353d

For the ones who survive…

100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 5 pts · 353d

There isn't going to be any intelligent life left by 2100.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 19 pts · 353d (3 replies)