HJNO Nov/Dec 2025

HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS I  NOV / DEC 2025 21 day, they’ll look back and they’ll say, “Well, it wasn’t.”But I think it will. I think we’re going to 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 of 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, a 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 some nonsense on the economy. And I will say this, the economy is unbelievable. The stock market just hit another record high and all that stuff. This means more to me. Yeah, please? Question: Mr. President. I have one on your announcement, one on vaccines that’s also related. President Trump Yes. Question: Why do you think we haven’t heard more previously about the tie to autism in acetaminophen? President Trump Nobody knows. I don’t know. Not only that, 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, doctors, I don’t know what it is. All I want to do . . . I don’t care. 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. Phenomenal. I want it to go up just like it came down to this horrible level. One in 10? One in 12? I was told one in 10, I was told one in 12. Today I heard one in 31, if you add the girls and the boys together. It’s crazy. And it was one in 10,000 and one in 20,000. 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. Yeah, please. Question: Mr. President, I’m curious, as you look at the trend lines, how much of this is the causation of acetaminophen and howmuch is better diagnosis, doctors, researchers having a better understanding of what is on the autism spectrum? President Trump Do you want to do that? Sure, go ahead, Rob. Kennedy That’s one of the canards that has been promoted by the industry for many years, that it’s changed diagnostic criteria or better recognition. But there’s been study after study done of that, that completely debunks that. One of them by the Mind Institute at UC Davis, University of California. But also it’s just common sense, because 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 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, head banging, stimming, toe walking, nonverbal, non-toilet trained. I’ve never inmy life seen a 70-year-old man who looks like that. You’re only seeing it in kids. It’s an epidemic. Question: Thank you. Mr. President, I was hoping that you could clear up confusion for moms and dads acrossAmerica, many of whom voted for you. There’s a statement that was put out by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and in their statement they write, “Acetaminophen 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 clear up this confusion? President Trump It’s the establishment. That’s the establishment. They’re funded by lots of different groups. And you know what? 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 a 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 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 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 one in 10,000, to one in 32, to one in 10. Think of it, one in 10 or 12, or one in 31. Think of it, one in 31 people, young kids get autism? What is it, Jeff? Question: My question is about leucovorin. You mentioned that as part of your plan. That is also a chemotherapy treatment. Have you been in touch with the drug companies to increase production about that? President Trump Why don’t I have the doc- tor answer that? Question: And just, I’m going to throw in my follow-up at the same time. Dr. Oz