Obama says Trump linking paracetamol to autism is ‘violence against the truth’ | Barack Obama
Barack Obama said Donald Trump’s allegations that associate paracetamol in infants with autism were “violence against reality” that could harm pregnant women if they were too scared without suffering.
Obama interviewed by David Olusoga at O2 Arena, told the audience that Trump’s branded paracetamol allegations as Tylenol in the United States were constantly refuted ”and pose a danger for public health.
“We have a demonstration showing that my successor in the oval office has made extensive claims that are constantly refuted around certain drugs and autism,” he said. “He undermines public health… This can harm women.”
Trump said on Monday: “Tylenol is not good… All pregnant women should talk to their doctors about limiting the use of this drug while pregnant.”
Comments were criticized by British Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who encouraged women to ignore the comments of the President.
Obama argued that there was a “war brigade üzerinde between the future of the United States and the two visions of humanity. On the one hand, he wants to return to an older, more conservative worldview, directed by populists, including the progressive view of democracy, and the other, including Trump.
He said: “My successor was not particularly shy about it. This desire, ‘We, People’, not only some people, but to return to a very special way of thinking about America.“
Obama also criticized the progressives that he said in the 90s and 00s that he said that he was “complaining” and “herself, because they are never tested because we believe in all these values.
The former president usually kept a low profile after leaving the post. However, as the political landscape in the United States was divided along the more severe, relaxing and partisan lines, it increasingly interventions.
In London, Obama did not call Trump with the name, only “Halefim ..
In the evening, Olusoga began with the meeting of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who was criticized by Trump on Tuesday during his speech in New York. Khan replied, saying that Trump was “racist, sexist, female enemy and Islamophobic”.
Obama is in London as part of the European Speech Tour in Dublin on Friday. It will take Dublin Freedom Thursday.
