On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced findings into the concerning spike in national autism rates, labeling one medication as a potential cause of autism, and another as a potential treatment.

It was announced that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy is tied to an increased risk of autism. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, one of the most widely used medications globally for pain relief and fever reduction.

“Taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good,” Trump said, noting that it might be necessary if a pregnant woman spikes a very high fever. “There’s a lot of common sense in this.”

Trump also talked about vaccinations, saying he believes vaccines need to be spread out over a child’s life, suggesting what’s known as a “delayed schedule.” Kennedy said later in the presser that HHS is also looking at vaccinations in connection to spiked autism rates.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just announced a link between TYLENOL and AUTISM — especially when taken during pregnancy

FDA is now recommending pregnant women don’t take Tylenol except in cases of extremely high fevers

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Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, said in a statement, “We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism. We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”

Since early September, the Kenvue stock has dropped around 15%.

It was also revealed that the drug leucovorin, also known as folinic acid, can potentially help treat autism symptoms. A physician will need to prescribe the drug for this use.

The Daily Wire’s Morning Wire podcast host Georgia Howe spoke to FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary on Monday about this announcement. He emphasized that it’s vitally important to let the public know about this potential association.

“We have an epidemic of autism that has increased 400% in the recent decades and we don’t have a known cause,” he explained. “Now this may be a cause, but when you have enough evidence to suggest an association and you have no other plausible cause, we have a duty to notify parents and doctors.”

Makary has already sent out a “Dear doctor” letter to all U.S. physicians, he said.

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“We now have good data from large studies and the Harvard School of Public Health Dean has made a very conclusive statement that he believes the association is causal,” Makary explained. “So when you have that weight of evidence, you have to take it seriously and err on the side of safety, especially since the vast majority of low grade fevers do not need to be treated.”

On the issue of treating autism symptoms with leucovorin, Makary said the drug has been around for nearly a century. However, “only recently have we recognized that some kids with autism actually have an autoimmune disease,” he explained. “The mechanism may be that the body is creating antibodies that block the folate receptors on their brain, restricting the ability of folate to get into the cerebrum. And so what that does is it actually creates a situation where you could have high levels of folate in your diet.”

Back in April, Kennedy promised his findings on autism would be dropped this month. He said at the time that new data showed that autism now affects 1 in 31 children in the U.S. – that’s nearly five times higher than when the CDC started these surveys back in 1992. Even more troubling, Kennedy also said a lot of these cases are now severe. “25% of the kids diagnosed with autism are non-verbal, non-toilet trained, have other stereotypical features: head banging, tactile and light sensitivities, stimming, toe-walking, etc.,” he said.

“Secretary Kennedy is asking questions that the American people are asking,” Makary told Morning Wire. “And so we have this odd new political landscape that’s penetrated science where you’re supposedly not allowed to ask certain questions. It’s created a tremendous amount of distrust. But I can tell you the purpose of science itself is to investigate questions.”

You can watch the announcement below:

Today, President Trump and RFK Jr. announce what they describe as a historic autism breakthrough—linking prenatal medication use to increased risk and proposing a new treatment path. This unprecedented claim could reshape medicine and ignite fierce debate. https://t.co/v0fo5xyZ3w

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 22, 2025

On Sunday, I had the privilege and the honor of attending the memorial for Charlie Kirk that was held in Arizona. It was an overwhelming event, an unbelievable event. The stadium at which it was held was packed with roughly 65,000 people. There was an overflow arena with another 20,000 people, and it was packed.

It was essentially a worship service, an enormous amount of outreach to people, telling them that they ought to embrace faith.

As I’ve been saying for years, there ought to be a religious revival in this country. The fact that there was so much focus on Christianity — which, of course, is something that Charlie lived for and something that he wanted to leave as his legacy — is a good thing for the country.

We are starting to see an uptick in young people going to church. That was happening before Charlie’s death, partially as a result of the work Charlie was doing out there in the world, but also because an emptiness has settled into the heart of Western civilization because it has forgotten about its relationship with God.

If Charlie’s death can be a turning point back toward faith for a lot of young people, that would be an amazing thing.

I don’t think that you have to be a Christian, which I am not, to believe that an America that is more deeply ensconced and deeply rooted in faith is a better America. An America where more people go to church is going to be a stronger America. An America where people believe in Biblical values will be a better and stronger America.

The event that moved everyone the most, that really shattered everyone, was Erika Kirk’s speech. She’s truly a strong, amazing person. She is a woman who is deeply in touch with her faith at the deepest possible level, and that’s what she spoke about yesterday. It was incredibly moving, truly one of the greatest speeches I think I’ve ever seen.

She spoke about what it means to be married, what the Bible calls for us to do as husbands and wives, and what Charlie was trying to do by reaching out to young men.

The audience was trying to reach out to her with their love to uplift her in this moment of darkness for her and for her family. You could feel the love in the arena.

On stage, in front of 100 million people, she forgave the assassin of her husband, truly an act of spiritual courage. It’s hard to think of anything more powerful than what Erika did.

I don’t think she meant that, as a society, we ought to ignore sin, or that his murderer shouldn’t be punished to the fullest extent of the law and receive the death penalty. I think she was saying something very different. She was saying that as all human beings are sinners, all human beings require forgiveness for their sins, which is an amazing thing to say for a young wife who has been left with two small children.

She spoke of the fact that after her husband’s assassination, his death did not drive mass violence in the streets; it drove prayer. Her statements on marriage were quite wonderful; she talked about how a man and a wife are supposed to relate to one another, that the man’s job is to be a protector and a provider, and a wife’s should be a helper, in the sense that they are one unit.

The president of the United States was the last person to speak, and it was classic Trump. He took the stage after Erika Kirk and proceeded to just be himself. After Erika had forgiven Charlie’s killer — which does not mean on a public policy level that there ought not be consequences for murder or that Erika Kirk believes that the murderer should be released or anything idiotic like that — President Trump stated he didn’t believe the same thing. He said of Charlie, “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry. I am sorry, Erika. But now Erika can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that’s not right. But I can’t stand my opponent.”

President Trump also went after the Left. It was not a call for unity from President Trump. And I think that to a certain extent, that was fitting. It’s very difficult to unify with people who wish to kill you, as Vice-President JD Vance has said before.

Then President Trump got truly serious. He said that Charlie’s murder was an attack on the country. He said:

Every single American should take a long, hard look at the twisted soul and dark spirit of anyone who would want to kill a young man as good as Charlie, to kill anybody. but to kill a man like this. He didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve this. Our country didn’t deserve this. And anyone who would make excuses for it are just out of their mind.

Charlie’s murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement. It was an attack on our entire nation. That was a horrible attack on the United States of America. It was an assault on our most sacred liberties and God-given rights. The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us. That bullet was aimed at every one of us. Indeed, Charlie was killed for expressing the very ideas that virtually everyone in this arena and most other places throughout our country deeply believed in. But the assassin failed in his quest because Charlie’s message has not been silenced. It now is bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and it’s not even close.

President Trump’s speech culminated with the singing of “America the Beautiful.” Erika came back on stage, and President Trump hugged her.

It was quite a moment.

It was a heavy day, a moving day.

But most of all, it was an uplifting day.