‘He’s a Little Different, Right?’ Trump Claims RFK Jr. ‘Is Gonna Change’ Autism
President Donald Trump described Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as “a little different” on Thursday, before claiming Kennedy would “change” the rates of autism.
Speaking at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Trump said:
Through the power of sports, America 250 will also host a brand new, first of its kind youth athletes. It’s a competition known as the Patriot Games and it features top high school athletes from all 50 states. It’s gonna be great, and this phenomenal patriotic sporting event will be nationally televised and it’ll be led by our great Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s really doing it.
He’s great and he’s, uh, he’s a little different right? We needed somebody different. You know, autism. You go back, I guess, 18 years, 10,000– think of this, out of 10,000 people, okay? Ten thousand people, and I’ll go it a little different way, right now, out of 10,000 people, 18 people don’t have– they’re safe. Eighteen people. We have a statistic on autism that’s the worst I’ve ever seen, and he’s gonna change it. He’s gonna change it. It used to be, 20 years ago, you just didn’t have it, and now it’s numbers that are unbelievable. Unbelievable. Where the numbers are so bad, it’s gotta be artificially induced, and we’re gonna find out what it is, and when? We’re gonna find it out as soon as possible.
Kennedy – who recently removed all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee – vowed in April that he would get to the bottom of “the autism epidemic” by September.
“We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” he said, “By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic. And we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures.”
That same month, Kennedy received backlash over remarks he made about children with autism.
“Autism destroys families; and, more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this,” said Kennedy, before claiming, “These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted; and we have to recognize we are doing this to our children.”
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL) protested, “This is disrespectful and a flat-out lie that further stigmatizes autism. It’s not a virus or a disease – it’s a neurological condition with a wide spectrum. Many Americans with autism work, pay taxes, and are living happy and healthy lives.”
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