Donald Trump sat down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press where he offered his thoughts on the discredited nonexistent link between autism and childhood vaccines. The reason why there are more cases of autism now than years ago is because of awareness, and autism wasn't added to the DSM until 2000. Still, Trump is comparing the rates from 25 years ago. It's just not a thing, though.
"Let me ask you about RFK Jr," Welker said. "He has obviously talked about his skepticism of vaccines. He's expressed opposition to childhood vaccines. Do you want to see childhood vaccines eliminated?"
"If they're dangerous for the children," Trump said.
"So, possibly?" Welker asked.
"When you look at some of the problems, when you look at what's going on with disease and sickness in our country, something's wrong," Donald said.
"Are you talking about autism?" Welker pressed.
"Well, if you take a look at autism, you go back 25 years; autism was almost non-existent," the fucking president-elect said. "It was, you know, one out of 100,000, and now it's close to one out of 100. I mean, what, what's happening if they can find it?"
"Sir, Going back 25 years, studies show that there are, there is no link between vaccines and autism, and yet it sounds like you are open to the possibility of him looking to get rid of that," Welker said.
