Trump’s Oval Office Humiliation of RFK Jr. Is Leaked

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks at U.S. President Donald Trump while he makes an announcement linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children, claims which are not backed by decades of science, at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 22, 2025.https://thedailybeast-thedailybeast-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/QDF6NSGZVNCP7CQKJDN2VEMMBM.JPG?auth=78f6fe448000b03891de8f4bc0ae4873df2c545e4c838b7cf51355153de950f8&smart=true&width=6500&height=3656" />
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An irate Donald Trump told Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he would be considered a failure if he could not prove a long-debunked link between vaccines and autism, according to a report.

During an Oval Office meeting in June, the president chastised Kennedy for not doing enough to prove an alleged connection between https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-show-exposes-rfk-jrs-rigged-plan-to-cure-autism/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-show-exposes-rfk-jrs-rigged-plan-to-cure-autism/">childhood vaccines and autism, and felt he should have accomplished more over the past year and a half leading the Department of Health and Human Services, sources told https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-rfk-jr-cut-vaccine-children-78582411?mod=e2tw" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-rfk-jr-cut-vaccine-children-78582411?mod=e2tw">The Wall Street Journal.

Trump had also pointedly asked Kennedy why he wasn’t doing more to investigate the alleged connection between vaccines and autism during a lunch at the president’s golf course in Virginia in May.

Trump accused the health secretary of getting the “yips” for not investigating the issue more aggressively.

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