President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on their controversial claims about Tylenol during an Oval Office press conference Thursday.
Kennedy was commenting on the Trump administration’s announcement that Americans would be getting affordable pricing on GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy when Trump brought up Tylenol.
“You haven’t changed your view on Tylenol for women who are pregnant?” Trump asked. “Because there are false reports out about Tylenol, Bobby changing his view. I don’t think he’s changing his view.”
“No,” Kennedy proclaimed. “I’m not going to change until the science changes, and the science does not look like it’s changing. It’s getting stronger and stronger every day.”
Kennedy continued: “What we recommend is that mothers, pregnant mothers, talk to their physicians. The mothers of small kids talk to their physicians, and we’ve advised the physicians to reduce the thresholds and to reduce the amount of Tylenol that they give to children as much as possible, and only use it when it’s absolutely critical.”
After Kennedy clarified his stance on Tylenol, Dr. Mehmet Oz reinforced Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” approach to combatting obesity through exercise and nutrition.
“MAHA is critical,” Oz said. “America will have to get fit in order to right-side the healthcare system, and MAHA has the answers. It has obesity management through diet and exercise and sleep and dealing with issues related to that. And I want to say it as clear as I can: Obesity is not an absence of GLP-1 drugs. We’re all clear on that. But as Secretary Kennedy said, it is an arrow in our quiver that we must use and should use. The MAHA movement means making it easier for the right things to happen, easier for you to be healthy. If you’re sitting at home and watching, that’s what MAHA means to me. Reducing costs of the most expensive medicine category in our country is as MAHA as it gets.”
Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.
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