- Trump repeated debunked claims linking vaccines (especially MMR) to autism and signed an order pushing for fewer, more spread-out childhood vaccinations.
- Doctors and large studies show no link between vaccines and autism, and the MMR combination shot is considered very safe — splitting it wouldn’t make it safer.
- He also exaggerated facts (calling doses “the size of a soda bottle,” saying autism was “1 in 10,000” 20 years ago, and claiming “72 jabs”), which aren’t supported by the evidence.
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