The president posted a truly unhinged rant on his Truth Social platform Friday where he told pregnant women not to use Tylenol “unless absolutely necessary,”
Trump also suggested not giving the over-the-counter painkiller to children “for virtually any reason,” before offering other dubious claims about vaccines in all caps:
BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT
The diatribe came a few days after Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosted a press conference where they promoted unproven and in some cases discredited ties that acetaminophen, the drug found in Tylenol, is linked to autism in kids.
Medical experts have called Trump’s claims “irresponsible” and emphasized that maternal conditions acetaminophen helps treat, such as fever, are far riskier to fetal health. Still, Trump continues to make these claims.
As a result, Gupta went scorched earth over the president’s claims during a segment on MSNBC Friday, especially the one about Hepatitis B, which he called “erroneous” and “dangerous.”
“For all our viewers out there, saying that you should take the hepatitis B shot at 12 years of age when currently it’s recommended in the first 24 hours of life is a dramatic, dramatic departure from just common sense medical knowledge,” Gupta said, before explaining to host Ana Cabrera the reason we behind that recommendation.
“We recommend it at birth because there’s unfortunately a lot of babies, despite efforts at screening mom, still get exposed to hepatitis B, which can cause chronic liver disease if a baby gets exposed to it during birth or in their very first moments of life. Ninety percent of babies … get exposed to hepatitis B through blood-borne transmission,” Gupta said.
You can see Gupta call out the president’s bad medical advice in the two clips below.
Gupta isn’t the only medical professional who has criticized the president’s attack on Tylenol.
In a statement issued Monday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which deemed the unproven guidance “irresponsible” and “unsettling,” and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a gastroenterologist who chairs the Senate’s health committee, said studies don’t back up Trump’s claims.
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