Bannon's War Room - Episode 4797: Trump Throws Down On Big Pharma; America's Autism Epidemic

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Sept. 22, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4797: Trump Throws Down On Big Pharma; America's Autism Epidemic

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donald j trump

21:46

robert f kennedy-jr

07:13

steve bannon

05:26

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dr dorothy fink

01:54

dr jay bhattacharya

03:07

marty makary

04:26

mehmet oz

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robert f kennedy-jr ▲ ● ▼		And we have fast-tracked research and guidance.
		Historically, NIH has focused almost solely on politically safe and entirely fruitless research about the genetic drivers of autism.
		And that would be like studying the genetic drivers of lung cancer without looking at cigarettes.
		And that's what NIH has been doing for 20 years.
		As a result, we don't have an answer to this critical question.
		Despite the cataclysmic impact of the epidemic on our nation's children, we are now replacing the institutional culture of politicized science and corruption with evidence-based medicine.
		NIH research teams are currently testing multiple hypotheses with no area off limits.
		We promise transparency as we uncover the potential causes and treatments, and we will notify the public regularly of our progress.
		Today we are announcing two important findings from our autism work that are vital for parents to know as they make these decisions.
		First, HHS will act on acetamedophine.
		The FDA is responding to clinical and laboratory studies that suggest a potential association between acetamedophine used during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including later diagnosis for ADHD and autism.
		Scientists have proposed biological mechanisms linking prenatal acetomedophine exposure to altered brain development.
		We have also evaluated the contrary studies that show no association.
		Today, the FDA will issue a physician's notice about the risk of acetamedophine during pregnancy and begin the process to initiate a safety label change.
		HHS will launch a nationwide public service campaign to inform families and protect public health.
		FDA also recognized that acetamedaphen is often the only tool for fevers and pain in pregnancy, as other alternatives have well-documented adverse effects.
		HHS wants therefore to encourage clinicians to exercise their best judgment and the use of acetamedophine for fevers and pain in pregnancy by prescribing the lowest effective dose for the shortest necessary duration and only when treatment is required.
		Furthermore, thanks to also to the politicization of science, the safety of acetamedophine against the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in young children has never been validated.
		Prudent medicine, therefore, suggests caution in a set of acetamedophine used by young children, especially since strong evidence also has associated it with liver toxicity.
		Some studies have also found the use of acetamedophil in children can potentially prolong viral illnesses.
		FDA will drive new research to safeguard mothers, children, and families.
		In addition to a possible acetamedophine connection to autism for pregnant women, infants and toddlers, our research has revealed that folate deficiency in a child's brain can lead to autism.
		We have also identified an exciting therapy that may benefit large numbers of children who suffer from autism.
		Peer-reviewed literature has documented that up to 60% of folate-deficient children with ASD can have improved verbal communications if given leukoforin.
		I have instructed NIH, FDA, and CMS to help doctors treat children appropriately.
		Jay will help tell that story, which started with sound science, the kind that restores faith in government.
		The announcement or this announcement also represents a historic collaboration between NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS.
		We expect this to be the first of many announcements over the coming years that deliver actionable information to parents on underlying cause of autism and the potential paths for prevention and reversal.
		Finally, autism is a complex disorder with multifactorial etiology.
		We are continuing to investigate a multiplicity of potential causes with no areas of taboo.
		One area that we are closely examining, as the president mentioned, is vaccines.
		Some 40 to 70% of mothers who have children with autism believe that their child was injured by a vaccine.
		President Trump believes that we should be listening to these mothers instead of gas-lighting and marginalize them, marginalizing them like prior administrations.
		Some of our friends like to say we should believe all women.
		Some of these same people have been silencing and demonizing these mothers for three decades.
		Because research on the potential link between autism and vaccines has been actively suppressed in the past.
		It will take time for an honest look at this topic scientists.
		But I want to reassure the people in the autism community, and we will be uncompromising and relentless in our search for answers.
		We will perform the studies that should have been performed 25 years ago.
		Whatever the answer is, we will tell you what we find.
		We are researching this issue to all three agents.
		We'll discuss one of our research initiatives at NIH.
		This model of unleashing unbiased, depoliticized gold standard scientific research and academic freedom to deliver actionable information to prevent and reverse disease will be a model for the framework to deliver similar similar results from any other chronic conditions that plague Americans.
dr jay bhattacharya ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Secretary Kennedy.
		And uh thank you, President Trump.
		Thank you very much.
		I'm proud to announce today that the NIH has launched the Autism Data Science Initiative to turbocharge autism research, devoting an additional $50 million to the cause of studying autism.
		Nearly 250 research teams from across the country applied, sent in their applications and were peer-reviewed by the NIH review panels.
		The NIH peer reviewers chose the 13 best projects focused on root causes and therapies, with replication and validation studies to guarantee gold standard science.
		The studies feature a new kind of science called exposomics, where scientists consider environmental and medical factors, nutrition, events during pregnancy, in combination with biology and genetics to answer vital questions about autism.
		Science like this, conducted in partnership with families and physicians, is the best way to arrest and reverse the autism epidemic.
		Autism spectrum disorder encompasses a very wide range of symptoms, ranging from mild difficulties with social interactions to profoundly autistic children who experience severe disabil uh disabilities in speech and behavior.
		Given this wide range of symptoms across the spectrum, it seems certain that there will be a wide range of biological contributors to explaining the cause.
		The great thing about the new NIH initiative on autism is that scientists will use rigorous advanced methods and causal inference, machine learning, organoids, and other fresh approaches to the problem.
		The sharp rise in the prevalence of autism deserves an urgent response by the scientific community.
		As Bobby said, the NIH has invested a lot of money to study autism over the years, but the research has not produced the answers that families and parents of autistic children deserve, and autistic children themselves deserve.
		For too long, it's been tabooed at asked some questions for fear that scientific work might reveal a politically incorrect answer.
		Because of this restricted focus in scientific investigations, the answers for families have been similarly restricted, often pointing families to behavioral therapies that don't work for every kid or suggest non-modifiable genetic factors as the cause.
		But genetics alone can't explain such a sharp rise in autism prevalence over the just a few decades, as the as the president said.
		In coming months and years, as NIH scientists learn more that can help autistic children and their families, we won't delay.
		Like scientists often like to do.
		I can say as a scientist myself, it's really tempting to delay, but you have to but But in a face of a problem like this, you have to move fast.
		But we're telling that we will not delay before telling American people about what we find, and we will win the public trust with transparency and rigor.
		Already our broadened focus on autism research has pointed to two items that will help families prevent and treat some cases of autism.
		I'll leave the good news on these two items to my close friends and colleagues, Dr. McCarry and Dr. Oz.
		We've been working together closely on this problem for the past six months, and our cooperation represents an unprecedented collaboration with Secretary Kennedy's Department of Health and Human Services and with President Trump.
		I'm delighted to introduce Dr. Marty McCarry, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, who will tell you about these announcements of practical help for families with autism.
marty makary ▲ ● ▼		Great, thank you, Dr. Badacharya.
		Mr. President, this is the start of a historic shift in medical culture.
		This administration is working together to ask big questions about why our nation's children are getting sick so fast.
		Too often medicine is doing small little studies, giving us answers we already knew.
		But we've got to make a difference.
		You have given us a charge to identify root causes, and we are not going to stop so that we can end the suffering we are watching.
		And if you've seen a kid with autism with severe autism, it's hard to watch.
		Kids get frustrated, they get angry, they can be crying because they want to speak and they can't speak.
		It's hard to watch, and it may be entirely preventable.
		For an epidemiologist, that child is an expanding statistic.
		But for a child, it can be brutal to have autism.
		Today the FDA is taking action to update the label on acetaminophin and sending a letter to all U.S. doctors letting them know about the risks in pregnancy.
		We now have data we cannot ignore.
		There's a very large study, the Boston Birth Cohort, with researchers that have uh from Johns Hopkins, my former institution and Boston University found quote unquote consistent associations between acetaminophen in pregnancy and autism.
		And the nurses' health study with researchers from Yale, Columbia, and Harvard looking at 9,000 kids, found that acetaminophil use in pregnancy was associated with neurodevelopmental disorders.
		And four weeks ago, a Mount Sinai Harvard study reviewed all the existing literature and found the overwhelming body of evidence points to an association.
		Sure, you'll be able to find a study to the contrary.
		That's how science works.
		But to quote the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, there is a causal relationship between prenatal acetomedophine use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.
		We cannot wait any longer.
		And honestly, there's been this perfunctory reactionary mindless practice in medicine.
		I learned it in medical school and residency, just treat all fevers, low-grade fevers, treat them with the senaminophin.
		Why?
		What are we doing?
		A study out of Hopkins actually showed that treating a fever can prolong the duration of illness in a young kid.
		Maybe that's because a fever is a body's natural way of ridding an infection.
		When my wife was pregnant and delivered our son a few months ago, they pushed her to take acetaminophen for a low-grade fever.
		She said no, and then they looked to me and I said, absolutely new.
		I'm also here to announce good news.
		Today the FDA is filing a Federal Register notice to change the label on an exciting treatment called prescription Lucovarin, so that it can be available to children with autism.
		You know, autism may also be due to a autoimmune reaction to a folate receptor on the brain, not allowing that important vitamin to get into the brain cells.
		It's a fairly established, mature pathway.
		Again, we have a duty to let doctors and the public know we are going to change the label to make it available.
		Hundreds of thousands of kids, in my opinion, will benefit.
		One study found that with kids with autism and chronic folate deficiency, two-thirds of kids with autism symptoms had improvement and some market improvement.
		Mr. President, you told us to do what's medically right, to go bold and not worry about the corporations and the lobbyists.
		So that's what we're here doing today.
		Thank you, Mr. President.
unidentified		Thank you.
mehmet oz ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, Marty.
		I think you all appreciate the passion in the President's voice.
		We've been hearing that since the inauguration.
		In fact, even before the inauguration, the President was upset about what he spoke to today.
		And so, together with Secretary Kennedy, who has made his life's work to address some of these challenges with autism, they challenged Us.
		In fact, they were harsher than that.
		They wanted no silos to break down what the NIH would do, what the FDA would do, what CMS would do.
		They insisted that the physician leaders bust through the clutter because their agencies had the power if we didn't do what every other prior administration had done, which is to let people function within their siloed environments.
		Because of that, in historic fashion and a very accelerated manner, we have a response today to the autism crisis.
		It is the first of several chapters, but this is breaking news.
		You've heard some of it.
		The response to the autism crisis is going to continue to come to you under Secretary Kennedy's leadership, and the President wouldn't have it any other way.
		As you've heard, the FDA, the FDA, based on NIH research, is approving prescription LeukoVorin for treatment of autistic children.
		Now, if you're following the script, there should be two questions that you have, two questions that should come to your mind.
		The first is how will patients and parents get access to the treatment?
		I'll tell you how.
		Over half of American children are covered by Medicaid and chip, government health insurance.
		Over half.
		Therefore, because they're covered in Medicaid and SHIP upon this label change by Marty, State Medicaid programs in partnership with CMS will cover prescription Lucovorin around the country.
		It's yours, but you have to go to a doctor to get a prescription because they know your child, they know you, and they know the medication.
		States will also have tools to monitor its use and ensure appropriate utilization.
		That's important for a bunch of reasons, because we want the right kids getting the right prescription medications.
		We believe private insurance companies will rapidly follow our lead if they have not already done so.
		And again, to make sure that this is safe and effective treatment, you need a physician to prescribe the prescript the medication because it's on prescription.
		Second big question.
		How are we going to collect clinical data to answer the big questions that the President is asking and Secretary insists that we offer?
		CMS is also issuing guidance to convene states and existing research networks to support NIH and FDA in their research efforts of prescription Lucovoran, while also maintaining the privacy of all patients, all health information of our beneficiaries.
		Collecting real-world data, which is what many of you have been asking us to do in the community is fast, it is life-saving, and we'll get answers based on what happens over the next few months with this approach.
		The aggressive approach, and it is aggressive, demanded by the President and by the Secretary, have already identified risk factors and opened the door for the first, the first FDA recognized treatment pathway for autism.
		It is the first of its kind, and it wouldn't have happened without the leadership of the President and the Secretary.
		The five-fold increased prevalence of autism over the past 25 years demands a rapid response.
		The average clinician, researcher, we spoke to many, thought it would take five years to get this data.
		Parents are unwilling to wait five years.
		The President is unwilling to wait five years for these results.
		So the President and the Secretary are acting toget today with this tri-agency move.
		The administration's bold actions investing in groundbreaking research, follow the science, they restore trust, which has been lacking, and they will change the trajectory for millions of American families.
		Mr. President, God bless you for being brave.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
mehmet oz ▲ ● ▼		Let me introduce Dr. Fink, who's acting administrator, and after that, Dr. Fink, we've got some wonderful women, Jackie and Amanda.
mehmet oz ▲ ● ▼		I know it's going to be tough, but if you can make some comments about this historic day, God bless you.
dr dorothy fink ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to speak with all of you today.
		As a pediatrician and mom, I am here today to talk about what this announcement means for the millions of moms and dads who are faced with the choice of whether to take acetamophine during pregnancy.
		It's hard to hear information that challenges the status quo.
		We are sharing this information not to confuse, but to empower parents to make the best choices when taking medications during pregnancy.
		We are all concerned about the rising rates of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
		President Trump and Secretary Kennedy are dedicated to radical transparency so that patients have the best, most up-to-date information.
		We are also sharing this information with our nation's doctors.
		And we encourage you, as always, to consult with your doctor to make the best decision for you.
		All too often it's easy to think that medicines we buy without a prescription pose little to no risk for the mom or the baby.
		As you heard today, pregnant women who need high fever or pain reduction during pregnancy should take the lowest effective dose of acetamenophine for the shortest possible duration.
		Most women will not meet these indications during their pregnancies.
		I am encouraged by these developments today because it is another example of our commitment to the American people to leave no stone unturned in improving the health of our nation's children.
		Next, I'm going to turn it over to some incredible mothers who are going to share more about their stories, and we're so grateful to have you here today.
unidentified		Thank you.
		Thank you, Mr. President and team, for all your work.
		This is an historic day, and I'm thankful to be here.
		I have a son who's five who is profoundly autistic.
		And you've probably heard if you've met one autistic child, you've met one autistic child.
		It's a spectrum, which I don't think the spectrum is helpful, but that's another conversation.
		Um he is an amazing little boy, a blessing from God.
		He's marvelous.
		He can count to a thousand.
		He knows all of his letters and the sounds they make and awards for each one.
		Um but he also has a lot of obstacles.
		He is nonverbal.
		He can say those numbers and letters, but there's no communication.
		Unless you've lived with profound autism, you have no idea.
		You have no idea.
		He, like you said, he will get frustrated because he can't speak.
		It's not even that he can't speak specifically.
		Sometimes he just doesn't understand what I'm saying.
		He understands the word no, but he doesn't understand the why behind the no.
		And that's a huge part of discipline.
		That's the discipline.
		So it's very hard to discipline a child with autism, so you have these behaviors.
		And it's very hopeless feeling.
		It's very isolating being a parent with a profound autistic child.
		Even just taking them over to your friend's house is something we just don't do because again, they're gonna be met with no, no, no, and no understanding of why, and then there's a meltdown.
		And then you're in a situation where you're just helpless and you're just trying to protect your kid.
		So it's just better not to do it.
		You learn your limits, and it's been really hard.
		This is amazing that we're here today.
		And I can't, no one has been able to point to anything and say, this is what caused it, and you can't point to that and say it didn't cause it.
		I have no idea.
		I am completely open, not blaming anything, but I'm open to the discussion and the fact that there's work being done to find answers.
		I'm very grateful.
		I was already excited to vote for Mr. Trump anyway, Mr. President.
		Um, but when we got word of RFK doing his work, I was ecstatic.
		I could not wait for this work to be done that somebody would try to find us some answers.
		I'm just very grateful.
		Um, I pray for my son every day, and hope that he can get the help that he needs.
		And uh, just thank you.
		Thank you.
		Thank you very much.
		Thank you for having me at this, my name's Jackie.
		Um, I'm also extremely grateful for the opportunity to be here and share my son's story.
		My son is Eddie, he's 11.
		He's on the opposite end of the spectrum from what Amanda just explained.
		He's considered high functioning.
		He was not always high functioning, he was nonverbal till the age four.
		We've had quite quite a hard time to get to the place where we are today.
		I am just so grateful to President Trump and the entire administration for finally listening to moms who have been crying out for help for answers for years.
		I've met so many other moms with children on the spectrum in the nine years since my son's diagnosis.
		And they all have very similar stories.
		And they've all just wanted somebody to listen, to not ridicule them or look at them like they were the crazy people.
		It's hard when you don't have doctors that take the time to really listen and and find out when the change happened and what change happened.
		And it's just I've been praying for this day for nine years, and I'm so thankful to God for for bringing the administration into our lives.
		and i am just i'm speechless this day is a day i never thought would happen i thought that we would never have an administration that was courageous enough to look into things that no prior administration had so i'm just here to express my gratitude and i am looking forward to what comes from this and hopefully we just get more answers so thank you thank you Thank you very much.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		So I just want to say acetomedaphine is basically Tylenol, uh, essentially, because I noticed that term is used throughout this conference.
		So it's essentially tyle Tylenol.
		And uh I just recommend strongly that you don't use Tylenol unless it's absolutely necessary.
		They I understand it's maybe 10% of the women that are pregnant are uh, you know, would perhaps be forced to use it.
		And that would mean uh you just can't tough it out.
		No matter what you do, you can't tough it out.
		So that's up to you and your doctor.
		But this is a very strong recommendation, uh, maybe stronger for me from than from the group because they're waiting for certain studies.
		I I don't I just want to say I want to say it like it is, don't take Tylenol.
		Don't take it.
		If you just can't, I mean it's uh fight like hell not to take it.
		There may be a point where you have to, and that you'll you have to work out with yourself, so don't take Tylenol.
		Other things that we recommend, or certainly I do anyway, is uh and it's so important to me to take see the doctor four times or five times for a vaccine.
		Don't let them pump your baby up with the largest pile of stuff you've ever seen in your life going into the the delicate little body of a baby, even if it's two years, three years, four years, you just break it up into I would say five, but let's say four, four visits to the doctor instead of one.
		And uh certain things I think you should do.
		We have already taken out and are in the process of taking out mercury and aluminum now.
		You know what Mercury is, you know what aluminum is.
		Who the hell wants that pumped into a body?
		And there were rumors about uh both of them for a long time, but uh we're having them taken out, we're having them taken out of the vaccines.
		Uh hepatitis B again, uh that's sexually transmitted, and we think you should wait.
		I think you should wait till 12.
		You know, I'm making these statements from me.
		I'm not making them from these doctors because when they uh they talk about you know different results, different studies.
		Uh I talk about a lot of common sense, and they have that too.
		They have that too a lot.
		Uh but I recommend the hepatitis B. Take uh take it uh at twelve.
		Sexually transmitted.
		You don't have to give it to the baby when the baby's two years old.
		And there are a lot of theories on that, but not when they're 12.
		It's not doesn't seem to be a problem at all.
		The MMR uh and the chicken pox.
		Chicken pox has already been broken out.
		It's a singular singular shot, but the MMR is uh is not.
		And I've heard for years that there's a problem with it.
		But they say that there's no problem if you do each shot separately, not put together.
		So an MMR get go out and uh do it separately.
		Don't take Tylenol, don't give Tylenol to the baby after the baby's born.
		Every time the baby gets a shot, the baby goes gets a shot.
		They say here, take a cup of title.
		I've heard that for years.
		Take Tylenol.
		Don't take Tylenol.
		Don't have your baby take Tylenol.
		Now, Tylenol is fine for people that aren't pregnant, that aren't uh in the situation that we're talking about one very specific situation.
		If you're pregnant, don't take Tylenol.
		When you have your baby, don't give your baby Tylenol at all.
		Unless it's absolutely necessary.
		Don't do it.
		Break up your visits to the doctors, break them up.
		Do it in five if you can.
		Now it's inconvenient.
		It's inconvenient.
		Oh, you've got to have to go back another year later.
		You're going to go back each year for four years, five years, three years.
		Just break it up.
		Break it up.
		Because it's too much liquid.
		Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a at too big a number.
		The size of this thing, when you look at it, it's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines.
		And 80.
		Then you give that to a little kid.
		I mean, I can tell you that I had a woman who worked for me, a beautiful, wonderful woman worked in Trump Tower.
		And she had the most perfect child.
		Beautiful.
	Just perfect.
	And I remember this little blonde-haired boy running around the lobby of Trump Tower, so healthy and so vibrant.
	And I said, that's great.
	One day I came in and she was crying her eyes out behind the counter.
	She was uh she worked at the front desk.
	She was crying her eyes out.
	I've never, as much as I've ever seen anyone distraught, she was.
	I said, are you okay?
	What happened?
	My boy, my boy, I've lost my boy.
	What does that mean, your boy?
	My boy, you know him, sir.
	You've seen him grow up.
	He was so beautiful.
	And I took him for a vaccine, sir.
	And he developed this unbelievable.
	I think she said 1078.
	You know, it goes well beyond when this happens.
	It goes up to 106, 107, 108.
	You know, we hear 105 and you're in trouble, but it just goes up to a level that you never hear about, but it goes up very high.
	And they get it's fried.
	They get fried.
	She said, I took him, he got developed an unbelievable temperature.
	And I've lost him, sir.
	He's gone.
	And then I saw the boy, it was a whole, it was so tragic to see.
	That was the following day.
	That was the following day after the vaccine.
	And I've seen it two other times, and I think three other times, but two other times, where they go to the doctor and they get the vaccine, they get the shot, the kid is uh, you know, badly hurt.
	Let's be nice, badly hurt.
	And uh just do it.
	Break it up into five, break it up into four, break it up into three if you have to, but go to the doctor four times instead of once or five times instead of once.
	And for some reason they insist that you put it all into the body, and maybe that's the drug companies that make more money that way.
	Maybe it's the doctors because they don't want to be, you know, doing this so much.
	Maybe it was the maybe it's the doctors.
	They get maybe more money.
	Who the hell knows what it is?
	Don't do it.
	Get them broken into four or five visits.
	Do it four or five.
	That means you have 20%, 25% what you're putting into the baby's body.
	It can only help.
	Can only help.
	And the other things I I told you about, just uh the word tough it out.
	You know, it's easy for me to say, tough it out, but sometimes in life with a lot of other things, you have to tough it out also.
	Don't take Tylenol, don't give Tylenol to the baby.
	When the baby's born, they throw it at you.
	Here, throw, give them a couple of Tylenol.
	They give them a shot, they give them a vaccine.
	And every time they give them a vaccine, they're throwing Tylenol.
	And some of these babies, they, you know, they're they're longborn and all of a sudden they're gone, and uh it doesn't hurt not to do it.
	It doesn't hurt.
	There's no downside.
	There's no downside at all.
	And break up MMR, break it up.
	It's practically a known fact that if you break it up, you're not gonna have a problem.
	But for years we've been hearing how bad MMR is as a combination.
	And I'm very happy that you broke out chicken pox because that was really a problem.
	And there are other things.
	It's interesting because there are other things.
	Other, we were talking about other different drugs, pills that you take that we know are so bad, and they don't take them anymore.
	But for some reason, with this, they keep taking it.
	Don't take Tylenol.
	There's no downside.
	Don't take it.
	You'll be uncomfortable.
	It won't be as easy, maybe.
	But don't take it.
	If you're pregnant, don't take Tylenol.
	And don't give it to the baby after the baby is born.
	And you know what?
	We have more than three years left.
	And I told Bobby and the doctors behind me, and they are so committed to this.
	I told them that this is the number one thing I want to do from you.
	And you know, we have something else called Favored Nations, where I'm going to be reducing drug prices by a thousand percent, by 900, 600, 500, 1,200.
	We're going to be reducing drug prices at levels never seen it's called Favorite Nations.
	We're going to be paying what the rest right now, we're like the garbage can for the rest of the world, and we have been for forever.
	We pay much higher for drugs than the rest of the world.
	We subsidize the rest of the world.
	We're not doing that anymore.
	And that's a big thing.
	That's a big thing.
	That's bigger than anything.
	I told the story the other night that I was so proud in my first term that for the final year drug prices went down.
	One quarter of one percent.
	And I was so proud.
	I said, why?
	I'm the first one to do it.
	I think it was 28 years, they said, where drug prices went down from the beginning of the term to the end.
	And I was so proud.
	I called a news conference.
	I said, you know, drug prices have gone down.
	First time it's happened in 28 years.
	You know what it was?
	One quarter of one percent.
	I was so proud.
	Now we're gonna have them go down from a hundred dollars a pill to nine dollars a pill.
	From thirteen hundred dollars for a shot of like an Oz Epic or the fat, I call it the fat pill or the fat drug.
	Sometimes it works, I guess, for people.
	The ones I've seen, it hasn't worked so well.
	I got a lot of friends, they have fat.
	They said, yeah, I lost some weight.
	I said, you don't look it to me.
	But they paid $1,300, $1,200, and they go to London and they pay $88.
	And they call me, they go, what's this all about?
	We're subsidizing the rest of the world stupidly, because we're a lot of stupid people in this country running things.
	And how big is that?
	But to me, that's nothing compared to autism.
	I see that gorgeous boy.
	I have a big present for him in the back, you know.
	You bring him back.
	We're gonna bring him into the Oval Office.
	I have the best present he's ever gonna get, okay?
	A big one.
	I saved it for you, okay?
	Because I heard you were coming.
	Look how beautiful he is.
	So that's it.
	There's nothing much to say.
	Don't take Tylenol if you're pregnant, and don't give Tylenol to your child when he's born or she's born, don't give it.
	Just don't give it.
	And we're gonna have, I think, really, if you do all the things that I say, break it up, uh, just break it up, break up the shots with the doctor, MMRs, as I told you, separate, separate, separate, chicken pox already separate.
	You do these things.
	I'm telling you, I want to, when I leave office, I don't want to have it's gonna be the kind of number that we're hearing where it's one in 32 or one in ten, because I've heard one in ten also.
	And in California, it's really bad.
	I want it to be, let's get it back to maybe one in ten thousand or one in twenty thousand, or maybe none in twenty thousand.
	And the only way you're gonna do that, because this is artificially induced.
	This is induced by something.
	You don't go from one in twenty thousand to one in ten thousand, then to one in ten.
	That's means you're taking something and something's wrong.
	And I feel uh very certain, and I know I'll be criticized.
	Someday they'll look back and they'll say, well, it it wasn't, but I think it will.
	I think we're gonna have a tremendous.
	I want this is one of the most, this is the most important.
	There's nothing more important than me.
	We cured inflation that Biden gave us, he gave us so much inflation, the biggest ever in history.
	We got inflation done.
	We brought prices down.
	We gave you the largest tax cuts, all that stuff.
	It doesn't mean a thing compared to what we're doing today.
	This means everything.
	So we're going to save a lot of children from a tough life, really tough life.
	We're going to save a lot of parents from a tough life.
	Okay, how about a few questions?
	Let's just make it on this subject.
	This is so beyond as a subject that I'd rather not talk about, you know, some nonsense on the economy.
	And I will say this the economy is unbelievable.
	The stock market just had another record high and all that stuff.
	This means more to me yeah please.
unidentified		Mr President I have one on your announcement, one in vaccines that's also really why do you think we haven't heard more previously about the tie to autism in acetamatic.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Nobody knows.
		I don't know.
		Not only that, uh when you say it, you get attacked.
		I was saying something similar not as strongly because now facts are on our side.
		But I was saying it with Bobby 20 years ago and I was attacked.
		I said, whoa, what was that all about?
		I had no idea you get attacked.
		I don't know the medical community, the drug companies, doctor I don't know what it is.
		All I want to do, I don't care, right?
		I don't care about being attacked.
		It doesn't matter to me.
		I believe that the numbers at the end of our term or shortly thereafter could be really phenomenal.
		I wanted to go up just like it came down to this horrible level one in ten, one in twelve I was told one in ten.
		I was told one in twelve today I heard one in thirty one if you add the girls and the boys together it's crazy.
		And it was one in 10,000 and one in 2000 it's not even sustainable for a country you want to know the truth.
		And there are other places that don't have it and they have things in common and that's called medical research.
unidentified		Yeah please Mr. President I'm curious as you look at the trend lines.
unidentified		Yeah how much of this is the the causation of acetaminophen and how much is sort of better diagnosis doctors, researchers having a better understanding of what you know is on the the autism spectrum.
robert f kennedy-jr ▲ ● ▼		That's one of the canards that has been promoted by the industry for many years that it's much it's changed diagnostic criteria better recognition.
		And but there's been study after study done completely debunks that one of them by the mind of UC Davis University of California.
		But also it's just common sense you're only seeing this in people who are under 50 years of age if it were better recognition or diagnosis you'd see it in 70 year old men.
		I've never seen this this happening in people my age I've never seen a case of full blown autism and that means profound autism.
		I want to be very careful headbanging stimming toe walking nonverbal non-toilet train I've never in my life seen a 70 year old man who looks like that.
		You're only seeing it in a kid's it's an epidemic.
unidentified		Mr. Thank you, Mr. President I was hoping that you could clear up confusion for moms and dads across America many of whom voted for you.
unidentified		There's a statement that was put out by the American College of Optetricians and gynecologists and in their statement they write as the med remains a safe trusted option for pain relief during pregnancy and that's at odds with what you said and with what many of the experts say how do you think that's the establishment they're funded by lots of different groups and you know what?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Maybe they're right.
		I don't think they are because I don't think the facts bear it out at all they're fighting for something that in my opinion they shouldn't be fighting for.
		But here's the thing there's no downside to doing other than a mother will have to as I say tough it out a little bit there's no downside to doing this.
		It's not like oh if you do this you're going to die there's no downside there's no downside to going over a four year or five year period or a three year period, or even if you space them out for six months, you space it out.
		There's no downside.
		And that's why I I will say the gentlemen behind me, they have very strong views, and they feel that we're right.
		But they'll have more research done over the next two months.
		I said, well, two months is a long time.
		A lot of people could be saved.
		And there's no downside to doing it.
		Everything I said, there's no downside to doing it.
		It can only be good.
		And I think you're going to see very good results.
		That's establishment stuff, and we've been reading that about a lot of things for years.
		And you know what's happened?
		We've gone from one in 20,000 to 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 32 to 1 in 10.
		Think of it.
		One in 10 or 12 or 1 in 31, think of it.
		One in 31 people, young kids get autism.
		What is it, Jeff?
unidentified		My question is about Lucovarin.
		You mentioned that as part of your plan.
		That is also a chemotherapy treatment.
		Have you been in touch with the drug companies to water production about that?
		I just I'm gonna throw in my follow-up at the same time.
		Dr. Oz mentioned that this will be available with CHIP, the children who aren't chip.
		But the great the big beautiful bill reduced funding for chip and Medicaid by a trillion dollars over the next 10 years.
		Are you concerned that that will impact your ability to get this drug out?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I'll explain it to you in a second, but please go ahead.
unidentified		Thank you.
marty makary ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		Luca Vorin is uh not a chemotherapy, but it is a vitamin given with chemotherapy sometimes.
		And the idea here is that the folic acid receptor in the brain is blocked by some antibody response.
		Might be 20, 40, 50 percent of kids with autism.
		And Lucovorin will bypass that blocked receptor.
		And that's why so many doctors are probably seeing so much clinical improvement on kids with leukovorin.
unidentified		So are you going to increase production?
marty makary ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we've been in touch with the companies, and they are uh prepared to ramp up uh production, and we actually talked to them about a month ago.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And on your second part of your nasty question, the uh the number is that the great big beautiful bill, which is the greatest, I think the one of the best things ever passed in the history with the tax cuts and regulation cuts and all of the things it does, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, all of it does.
		It also gives 200 million dollars as just explained by Dr. Ross.
		And I'd like you to explain that uh to exactly what you're saying.
mehmet oz ▲ ● ▼		The big beautiful bill actually increases Medicaid spending projected over the next 10 years by 200 billion dollars.
		Uh there's also a $50 billion rural health transformation fund, which will allow a lot of these programs to get in the rural parts of the country that the President and Congress are are having to governors to start distributing those grants that have already gone out.
		The money will be allocated by the end of this calendar year.
		And I want to point out that the ability of NIH to do research that feeds and hands the ball to the FDA, which then can change labeling to allow Medicaid uh programs in states to fund this program will ensure that the things that President Trump and Secretary Kenny desire are financially affordable for the families around America.
unidentified		You mentioned CIP, sir.
		That's why I asked that question.
		You mentioned that CHIP would fund this for children.
mehmet oz ▲ ● ▼		But most of the kids are on Medicaid, probably 43 on percent of Medicaid, another eight, ten percent on CHIP, and all the programs in general are being evaluated.
		Most of what the one big beautiful bill was seeking to do was to remove fraud, waste, and abuse.
		But the programs themselves should stay financially intact for the people for whom they were designed, and in this case for children.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And the only thing is, the only thing we cut.
		So that's 200 billion positive.
		The only thing we cut was for fraud, waste, and abuse, of which there was a lot in this country, and nobody minds that.
		Yeah, please.
unidentified		Mr. Kelly, you said that there is no reason to give newborn babies hepatitis B vaccines.
		The hepatitis B can be contracted, not just during sexually transmitted diseases in terms of needles to open wounds.
		So when you say you feel, you know, is that appropriate to these telling me that the other thing is that the other thing is.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I think it's absolutely appropriate.
		I think they should wait till they are 12 years old.
		Yes, please.
unidentified		Mr. President, thank you all for being here.
		You've been talking about reducing autism by spacing out vaccines.
		Would you like other combined vaccines babies received to be spaced out like MMRB?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		What is this again?
unidentified		Um you've been talking about speak up, please.
unidentified		You've been talking about reducing autism by spacing out vaccines.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Correct.
unidentified		Would you like the other combined vaccines babies receive to be spaced out like in MRB?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I would say yes, but uh that just is for me, it's a lot of common sense involved in this.
		It's a process, but we're looking, but uh it should at least be given separately.
		Now it's possible that you can reduce them and give it I'd give them in small doses, but it's possible maybe in that particular case, the MMR wouldn't work in small doses, but you can certainly give them a separate charts.
		Uh it's been proven to be very safe when you give them in separate charts instead of mixing.
		So I don't think there's any reason to do that.
		Do you agree with it?
		I'm not a doctor, but I'm giving my opinion.
		I don't think there's any reason to do that.
		So it's been proven to be safe when you break them up, but MMR by itself, I've heard of bad things about it for many years.
		Yes, please.
unidentified		Mr. President, is the spectrum too broad in your opinion?
unidentified		For research purposes, you are dealing with a population of children who might have social boundary difficulties, and then you have children who are, you know, going to grow up to be adults with diapers.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what do you think?
		Uh we don't know how broad the spectrum is.
		We don't know exactly where it starts and where it ends, but we do know what we're going through.
		We're going through some very serious trouble, and we know uh autism.
		I mean, it's uh it could be bigger, it could be small, a little bit smaller, but the number is unacceptable.
		And the number the way it's come down, the way because the spectrums remain the same.
		The number the ways come down is just uh unacceptable, meaning come down to that level of one in ten, one in twelve, one in thirty-one.
unidentified		Mr. President, Mr. President, medical professional.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead in the back.
unidentified		This uh question is more directed towards uh Secretary Kennedy.
		Uh it was talked about that we're just kind of finding out if I uh the uh fact that babies are affected this uh way.
		Uh is there a concern that information is being suppressed right now within HHS and could an investigation perhaps be launched uh seeing any more.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think information has been really uh not given out very freely over the years, absolutely.
		And I think that's by drug companies and maybe doctors, but I certainly think that over the years.
		Uh I think this is a different group.
		We we have a lot of information.
		And that information, I mean, it's the information that we have that we're making these statements, and I'm making them out front and I'm making them loud and I'm making them strongly not to take Tylenol, not to take it.
		Just don't take it unless it's absolutely necessary, and there's not too many cases where that will be the case.
		And again, what's the worst?
		The worst is nothing can happen.
		It's very positive.
		That's a positive thing.
		But I don't believe that's that I don't actually believe that's possible.
		I think the results are going to be amazing.
		I want to see amazing results by the time I leave this beautiful building.
		And I I will consider this.
		I believe, you know, with the wars, I've stopped seven different wars, I've saved millions of lives, I've done a lot of things.
		This will be as important as any single thing I've done, because I know ladies, beautiful ladies just like this that are going through the same thing, and it's not easy, and I admire you for being able to do it.
		But I admire him too.
		I wish I had a face that looked like that.
		If I looked like him, I would have been President a long time ago.
unidentified		The Press: The political panel is widely used in other countries, too.
unidentified		As you make this announcement, do you expect your decision may affect the process?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I hope they follow it.
		Yeah.
		I hope they follow it.
		Yeah, other countries are s you know, cell tile and all.
		Some countries don't.
		I mean, I hear Cuba.
		Now, again, you'll have to check this out.
		But I hear Cuba doesn't have it because it's very expensive.
		And they don't have the money to have it, or they don't want to spend the money to have it.
		They don't have Tylenol.
		And I hear they have essentially no autism.
		So you have to you'll have to check it out.
		Yeah, right.
unidentified		Medical professionals have warned for decades.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		No, not you.
		You're CNN, you're fake news.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Thank you, Mr. President.
		I want to go back to the Amish community by campaign just for a second.
		I recently saw a man from Minnesota, an Amish man from Minnesota on a podcast, and the host asked him what the rates were for like ADHD and autism.
		And he had no idea about ADHD, didn't know that existed, and certainly didn't know of any cases.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		It doesn't exist with the Amish community, and they don't take all of this junk.
		Uh it doesn't exist.
		That tells you, doesn't it?
		That's like you know, that's like certain countries where it doesn't exist and they don't take it.
		Would you like to make a comment about that one?
marty makary ▲ ● ▼		The The Amish population, a very mixed group.
		So there's a subset that take vaccines, a subset that does not.
		And we know they have very low rates of chronic disease all across the board.
unidentified		Um, should the establishment media show at least some openness to you know, figure trying to figure out what the cause is.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I wish they would, yeah.
unidentified		And why are they so closed-minded?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, they just look, it's not only the media in all fairness, it's some people.
		When you talk about vaccines, they go crazy.
		And you know, I'm a big supporter of vaccines.
		I got a certain vaccine approved in nine months that would have taken from five to twelve years.
		I'm very proud of it.
		A lot of people think it was one of the greatest things I've done, and some people think uh, mostly Republicans, actually.
		I'll tell you the Democrats think it was they think Operation Warp Speed was one of the greatest things any president has done, any president.
		It's uh, you know, we're very proud of what happened.
		We got we got hit with something that came from a place that shouldn't have happened, but it did happen.
		You know, those things take place, and uh you're very unpleasantly surprised.
		But no, I'm a big believer in vaccines, polio vaccine, big, big believer in vaccines.
		I know Bobby and you guys have it out a little bit, but he's a believer in vaccines too.
		But uh I've seen what how great vaccines can be, how incredible they can be.
		So I'm a I'm a believer, yeah.
		Yeah, please.
unidentified		Um, you uh your comment to me on MMR and hepatitis B. He said those were your suggestions.
unidentified		But have you spoken to Secretary Kennedy about actually making those changes?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I have, yeah, I have.
		I've spoken to all the doctors about it.
		And doctors that uh are not here right now.
		I've spoken to many doctors about all of everything we're talking about.
		And uh, you know, the the Tylenol has started to be spoken of over the last period of time.
		But we've been doing the research.
		A lot of what they've been speaking about comes from right here by research done by these people.
		And uh I just say it again don't take Tylenol.
		Don't take it.
		And don't give it to your child after your child is born and do all those other things, little things, just spread out your visits, etc., etc.
		on the vaccine.
		And I want to thank everybody.
		This is a very important day.
		Thank you very much.
unidentified		Thank you.
dr jay bhattacharya ▲ ● ▼		What do you mean with the Democratic leaders, sir?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Um folks, we've watched a lot a lot of President Trump.
		We've watched a lot of candidate Trump.
		Uh we've really been, I guess, with President Trump since 2015.
		I think that was one of the most important sessions I've ever seen for the President of the United States.
		Remember, today we were talking that this was, you know, with Mary Holland, this was gonna come up and you know, we didn't know when the report was coming out, was a slow walking report.
		President Trump just dropped bombshell after bombshell.
		That is gonna be studied in years to come.
		In an hour, he went through and just eviscerated.
		I think Big Pharma, although at the end of say he's a huge supporter of vaccines.
		Um I don't know if that was my initial takeaway.
		One takeaway I did write down in my number two pencil was do not take Tylenol, which he said about 50 times.
		I can imagine they're getting a lawsuit ready right now.
		He said there's no ADHD.
		This was incredible.
		Incredible.
		Uh do I have um I think I got Dr. Brian Hooker?
		Uh and we're gonna go to break in a couple minutes uh and start the six scar show.
		Dr. Hooker.
		Um I'm not sure.
		Do we actually need the autism report now?
		I guess we've got to put the facts out, but did the president of the United States just eviscerate the big pharma, sir?
		Okay, Dr. Hooker, you gotta you gotta unmute yourself, sir.
		Okay, let's go to Dr. Hooker when we get him.
		Dr. Hooker gotta learn how to work with the technology, sir.
		Um President United States comes out for the initial for the town hall uh, you know, I guess report.
		They're gonna then talk about they have a huge round table on Thursday that we're gonna cover live at uh at Real America's Voice.
		And uh in War Room.
		It goes from noon to five at the Willard Hotel on Thursday with all these prominent experts, including Dr. Hooker.
		Um, we're gonna cover that, and then the autism report is supposed to be it was supposed to be the week of the 28th.
		But right now, I've never seen bombshell after bombshell after bombshell.
		And President Trump sat there, and I said this when I first started, I told my team.
		I said, he's gonna say before the end of this that he wants this to be remembered as one of his signature.
		This whole thing with autism, he wants it as one of his signature achievements.
		Dr. Brian Hooker, your thoughts are okay.
		He's still on mute.
		Okay, I tell you what, let's go.
		We're gonna go to break at the top of the hour, and we'll work with Dr. Hooker, who's clearly not a technologist.
		He's my category.
		Um, we're gonna we're gonna break this up and break it down in pieces so that you can see it hopefully in the next hour.
		But what you just saw by the president of the United States was the single biggest throwdown by anybody in authority.
		Backed up by uh Jay Bot Achara, Dr. Rob Bobby Kennedy, uh Dr. Oz, Dr. Fink, others in the in the heart-rendering stories of the of these uh of these mothers and their children, which touches President Trump.
		He just said when he was leaving there, he's taking the young, he's gonna take the young men and their moms over into the Oval Office.
		He's got presents for them.
		That's the feeling Trump.
		I'm telling you, this cuts to the core of the heart of President Trump.
		It was moving, it was powerful.
		He ain't backing down.
		And he said, he says, look, I've stopped Seven Wars, you know, his achievement of bringing returning America to her greatness of the economy of all of it.
		He said right there, when I leave, I believe this may be the most important thing I do was to stop this this basically pandemic or epidemic of of uh autism.
		And then he had, then he threw it up about things like ADHD, everything we've had the Sheila Matthews of the world on and all the in Mary Holland and you know, these concerned mothers and all the work that um that the war and posse did on the Pfizer documents, the Pfizer papers, right?
		And Naomi Wolf, everybody.
		President of the United States went out there.
		I mean, he went Bobby Kennedy on steroids.
		It was like Rambo Bobby Kennedy.
		I've never seen anything like it.
		From this was one from the heart.
		Incredible.
		You want to talk about a guy who'll stand up against the powers that dominate Washington D.C. Remember, I told you all they knew is to play Smash Drust.
		Well, hey.
		Like Mike Tyson says, everybody's got a strategy to punch him in the mouth.
		Donald Trump just took Big Pharma and he punched him right in the mouth.
		What do you call it?
mehmet oz ▲ ● ▼		A VAT?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Don't give the baby a VAT of like 70 or 80 vaccines.
		Stunning.
		Then he gave him a pat on the head at the end and said, Well, you know, I really like vaccines.
		I don't know.
		One thing I do know, President of the United States, I think pretty focused on do not take town.
		That's a quote.
		Town lawyers, don't come after poor war room.
		Check in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
		The commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces.
		Incredible.
		We're going to be back.
		We're going to break all of this down.
		Dr. Hooker, his microphone will work.
		I promise you.
		We're going to also go out to TP USA, talk to Mo Bannon.

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