President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, on October 9, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a Cabinet meeting Thursday at the White House – many of them about vaccines.

He wrongly asserted that babies are given 82 vaccines in a single shot ( not even close to true ). He wrongly asserted that babies are given vaccine doses the size of two glasses of water (a standard dose is a small fraction of a teaspoon ). He wrongly asserted that Amish people don’t take vaccines or pills ( many do ) and don’t have any autism (they do). And he wrongly asserted that the measles vaccine is already given separately from other vaccines ( no separate measles shot is available in the US).

Trump was also wildly inaccurate on

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