President Donald Trump blurted out a string of falsehoods during a wandering rant about vaccines, autism, and “toughing it out” at his latest Cabinet meeting. How many? Let’s see.
Trump held a Cabinet meeting Thursday on the heels of a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, during which Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held forth with a wild story about Tylenol.
Not to be outdone, Trump went on a tangent and falsehood-riddled “weave” that saw him again tell pregnant women to “tough it out” and burnish his credentials to dispense medical advice to an entire nation as a “non-doctor” who is, however, a “common sense man.”
An analysis of the rant shows that, including repetitions, Trump made a staggering 60 false, misleading, or inaccurate claims in the space of four minutes and change.
Here’s an annotated breakdown of Trump’s rant:
SEC. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR: You showed courage and you’ve shown leadership and I can’t thank you enough for letting me do this work.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: So, think of that one in 20,000, [False: Historical autism prevalence in the US was estimated around 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 10,000 in the 1970s-1980s, not 1 in 20,000. Current rates are about 1 in 31 overall; roughly 1 in 25 boys and 1 in 70 girls] and now it’s one in 12 for boys, one in 18, 19 for girls.
So obviously, there’s something that’s artificially, I think, induced, [Misleading: The apparent increase in autism rates is largely attributed to improved diagnostic...
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