Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump conducted a White House press conference on Monday that stands as the most sweeping assault on science and public health by any sitting president, perhaps only matched by Trump’s infamous April 2020 coronavirus briefing, when he encouraged Americans to inject disinfectant and use ultraviolet light inside their bodies. This latest spectacle represents a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s broader war against science, medicine and healthcare policy.

  • Beryl
    105·
    7 days ago

    Throughout the hour-long briefing, Trump demonstrated disturbing signs of neurological decline, repeating variations of the phrases “don’t take Tylenol,” “don’t give Tylenol to your child after it’s born,” and “separate the vaccines” literally dozens of times in an unhinged, repetitive pattern that suggested possible dementia or other neurological degeneration. His rambling, often incoherent statements included this verbatim declaration:

    “Let’s do it now. Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don’t take it. Don’t take it! And if you can’t live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one, because there’s no alternative to that, sadly. First question: what can you take instead? It’s actually, there’s not an alternative to that. And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean they’ve been proven bad, with the Aspirins and the Advils and others, right? And they’ve been proven bad.”