Trump on measles vaccines: "They have to get the shots"

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

President Trump on Friday spoke for the first time on the record about measles outbreaks that have taken place across 22 states so far this year, instructing parents to vaccinate their children against the highly contagious and occasionally deadly virus.

What he said: "They have to get the shots. The vaccinations are so important, this is really going around now. They have to get the shots."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-measles-outbreaks-vaccinations-shots-bfa6253c-3d45-491a-a057-b6eb54fff702.html

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Some of his fans may not approve...

[ck4829]

1. Breaking News: He finally says something that isn't bat-guano crazy

[cstanleytech]

16. Even a stopped analog clock is right at times.

[ehrnst]

2. He's OCD. Probably grossed out by the idea that one of his followers is going to shove their kid

at him for a hug.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Ha! I bet you're right.

He only acts to benefit himself in some way.

[jpak]

3. umm... No

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/253980-trump-links-vaccines-to-autism-epidemic

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump on Wednesday doubled down on his controversial stance that vaccinations are linked to what he described as an autism “epidemic.”

“I’ve seen it,” he said at the second main-stage GOP debate on CNN Wednesday night.

“You take this little beautiful baby, and you pump — it looks just like it’s meant for a horse," he said of vaccines.

"We’ve had so many instances ... a child went to have the vaccine, got very, very sick, and now is autistic."

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[Grokenstein]

5. I'd tell him to make up his mind...

...but it's too fried from abusing Adderall to expect anything like that.

[mountain grammy]

10. So that was in 2015 and it won the heart and souls of anti science anti vaxxers.

Now he's changed his mind, apparently, but of course he has no mind, so guess someone said something.

[BlueStater]

4. Thank you, Captain Completely F. Obvious n/t

[Judi Lynn]

6. Dr. Trump! So much wisdom and only one body!

[truthisfreedom]

7. He just repeats what the last person who spoke to him said.

He has no real thoughts of his own except “molest” and “wall”.

[47of74]

8. In other words water is wet and fire burns

[Auggie]

9. No word about a policy? Financial help?

[Dave Starsky]

15. There are policies and financial help already in place.

Medicaid pays for childhood immunizations. The US government would rather pay for your child to have a shot in their arm then pay for them to end up on a ventilator in a hospital for weeks with an illness that could easily have been prevented by that shot.

[GulfCoast66]

11. He will soon walk it back...

Once the the antivaccer portion of his crazy base pushes back.

[louis-t]

13. Be Best.

[Dave Starsky]

14. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.

I don't know why he chose not to be a willful idiot on this particular topic, but I'm glad he did.

[rurallib]

17. WTF? Did Ivanka start a line of designer measles vaccines?

there's got to be an angle in there someplace. He's not capable of normal thought unless he can make a buck out of it.

[Bob Loblaw]

18. Wasn't he at the nra convention today?

Maybe he was confused and meant to say that kids in cages should be shot.

[keithbvadu2]

19. So now Trump wants kids to get autism... according to his own beliefs.

So now Trump wants kids to get autism... according to his own beliefs.

[beachbum bob]

20. his first moment of clarity??? Wow, mark the date!!