Trump, RFK Jr's First Forray Into Answers on Autism | ABC Reinstates Kimmel | 9/23/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. |
| 0:02.4 | Did we find the cause of autism? |
| 0:04.9 | Not quite. |
| 0:05.7 | As it turns out, terrorism works after all. |
| 0:08.5 | And what the federal government is going to do about it. |
| 0:11.3 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:15.9 | The meteoric rise in autism is among the most alarming public health developments in history. |
| 0:22.8 | There's never been anything like this. |
| 0:25.7 | Just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism. |
| 0:30.2 | So that's not a long time. |
| 0:32.3 | And I've always heard, you know, they sell a few, but I think it's a lot less time than that. |
| 0:38.9 | It used to be one in 20,000, then one in 10,000. |
| 0:44.0 | And I would say that's probably 18 years ago. |
| 0:47.4 | And now it's 1 in 31, but in some areas it's much worse than that, if you can believe it, 1 in 31. |
| 0:56.0 | President Trump yesterday holding an announcement ceremony flanked by his various public health chiefs, including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. J. Badacharya at NIH and others, announcing some of their plans and action steps on dealing with the scourge |
| 1:13.6 | of autism. President Trump made this announcement. He's telling the FDA to go after acetaminophen. |
| 1:20.4 | That's the active ingredient in Tylenol for pregnant women. |
| 1:23.5 | Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism. |
| 1:34.8 | So taking Tylenol is not good. |
| 1:41.1 | I'll say it. |
| 1:42.0 | It's not good. |
| 1:43.2 | So did we find the cause of autism? This is what was kind of promised a few months ago. And I don't think that we did. RFK Jr. called out some of the hypocrites, again, who just completely spit in the face of mothers who said, one day I had a perfectly healthy baby. The next day |
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