Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that circumcised children were at a greater risk for autism.
During a White House cabinet meeting on Thursday, Kennedy reiterated earlier calls for pregnant women not to take Tylenol.
"This morning, before I came in here, somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at eight months pregnant," the secretary told President Donald Trump. "And she is saying F Trump, and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. And the level of Trump derangement syndrome has now left political landscapes, and it is now in the realm of pathology."
"This is not this dispositive. It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof," he said of the link between Tylenol and autism. "And any mother who is taking this stuff during pregnancy just to get back at Donald Trump is doing something that is pathological."
Trump argued that "when the baby is born, don't give it Tylenol."
"There's two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism," Kennedy offered. "It's highly likely because they're given Tylenol."
The president insisted there was a "tremendous amount of proof or evidence, I would say, as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time ago."
"I was a real estate developer," he added. "It bothered me that it seemed to be getting worse."