President Donald Trump said he and his administration will make an announcement Monday involving what he described as “an answer to autism” as he made false claims about the condition during an aside in his remarks at a memorial service for the assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona on Sunday.

What You Need To Know

• President Donald Trump said he and his administration will make an announcement Monday involving what he described as “an answer to autism”

• Multiple media outlets reported in recent days that the administration plans to link pregnant women’s use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism

• That's an unproven connection that medical researchers and health agencies in the U.S. and across the globe have long examined but have yet to reach anything approaching a scientific consensus on

• Tylenol, along with its generic counterparts, is one of the few painkillers and fever reducers that doctors have said are safe for pregnant mothers to use, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

• “Any association between acetaminophen and autism is based on limited, conflicting, and inconsistent science and is premature given the current science,” the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement

Trump referenced Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — his onetime presidential rival who has dedicated much of his time atop the nation’s health agency to addressing autism after decades of...

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