President Trump reaffirms his longtime stance on childhood vaccines
While speaking with the press aboard Air Force One, President Trump reiterated his longtime opinion on childhood vaccines
by Summer Lane | September 22, 2025
President Donald Trump discussed his thoughts about early childhood vaccinations while speaking to the press aboard Air Force One, just before Monday’s anticipated announcement about rising autism rates and their potential root causes.
“Vaccines are very interesting, they can be great, but when you put the wrong stuff in them…” he said. “And, you know, and children get these massive vaccines like they give to a horse…and I’ve said this for a long time, this is no secret, spread them out over five years.”
He continued, “I mean, for a little baby to be injected with that much fluid? Even beyond the actual ingredients, there are sometimes 80 different vaccines…it’s a horrible thing. So, I’ve always thought that.”
The president, based on his past comments, has been consistent in his statements about childhood vaccines.
“I’m not against vaccinations for your children, I’m against them in 1 massive dose,” he wrote on X in September 2014, before he even ran for president.
He added, “Spread them out over a period of time & autism will drop!”
Two years before that statement – in 2012 – he also wrote, “Lots of autism and vaccine response. Stop these massive doses immediately. Go back to single, spread out shots! What do we have to lose.”
Monday’s announcement from the Trump administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to link Tylenol (acetaminophen) usage during pregnancy to rising autism rates in the U.S.
It is unclear if Kennedy and his team will identify any other potential links, such as the heavy doses of early vaccines, as President Trump has suggested on several occasions.
“I believe the data is going to show overwhelmingly that vaccines are the driver for vaccine-induced autism and vaccine-induced brain injury,” President and General Counsel of the Children’s Health Defense Fund told Steve Bannon on Monday.
Hollands has worked with Secretary Kennedy extensively in the past.
“Tylenol is not the primary cause,” she told Bannon. “Vaccines are the primary cause.”
She suggested that Monday’s announcement on autism may be something of a “sideshow” and noted that “we have to keep going until we get the real data.”
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