„If you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong,“ one Bluesky user noted.
President Donald Trump held one of his televised “cabinet meetings” from the White House on Thursday, which mostly serves as an opportunity for members of the Trump regime to fawn over the president in nauseating ways. But Trump’s health secretary took the opportunity to embarrass himself Thursday in a way that reminds us he’s grossly unqualified.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently held a press conference with Trump to declare that pregnant women should no longer take Tylenol during pregnancy, in an attempt to claim that it causes autism. Kennedy brought up the topic on Thursday, mentioning a TikTok video he saw.
“Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant—she’s an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying ‘F Trump’ and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta,” Kennedy said Thursday.
“The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome has now left the political landscapes and it is now a pathology,” Kennedy continued.
Putting aside for a moment the debate over Tylenol, any educated adult with two brain cells to rub together can see a big problem with what Kennedy just said.
As one doctor on Bluesky put it: “as a physician, I’ll note that if you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong indeed.” The placenta is an organ that grows in the uterus and provides nutrients transferred from the mother to the fetus. A fetus does not grow “in” a placenta, as Kennedy claimed on Thursday.
