{"id":40455,"date":"2025-09-24T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40455\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:21:06","slug":"stephen-colbert-hammers-trump-over-fking-crazy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40455\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Hammers Trump Over ‘F**king Crazy’ Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert<\/a> said President Donald Trump<\/a> this week held an \u201cinsane\u201d press conference in which he linked autism<\/a> to a drug he couldn\u2019t even pronounce. <\/p>\n

\u201cAutism is a simple term that actually covers a variety of developmental differences across the spectrum and you can\u2019t blame anyone, even Donald Trump, for seeking answers,\u201d Colbert said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Then his tone shifted \u2015 fast. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut experts in the field caution that what President Trump said in his speech yesterday was \u2015 and I don\u2019t want to get bogged down in technical jargon here \u2015 \u2018fucking crazy,\u2019\u201d Colbert said. <\/p>\n

Trump said the pain reliever Tylenol (acetaminophen) can cause autism and warned women not to take it during pregnancy. Experts, as Colbert noted, slammed the claim<\/a> as \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201chighly unsettling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert said Trump\u2019s claim is based on a single paper that found a correlation between prenatal use of the drug and autism.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut even the lead author of that study cautioned that correlation is not causation,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cFor example, I picked a side salad over fries the day my show got canceled. Is that why? Probably not. But just to be safe, I will never eat a salad again.\u201d <\/p>\n

Colbert rolled footage of Trump\u2019s word-salad press conference<\/a> where he struggled to say \u201cacetaminophen.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIs that OK?\u201d Trump asked after several attempts. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Colbert fired back. \u201cThat\u2019s not OK. Doesn\u2019t exactly inspire confidence.\u201d <\/p>\n

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