President Trump is never one to hold his tongue.
This wasn’t an issue on which Trump could remain silent.
And Trump called out one medical crisis that broke his heart.
As Swamp Digest reports:
Big Pharma and the medical establishment have waged war on Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement.
Kennedy sought to reform the vaccine schedule for American children to align more closely with the rest of the world, which recommends 17 vaccines rather than 72 in America.
This is a direct threat to the pharmaceutical industry’s profits, and they deployed their media allies to smear Kennedy as a crank and a threat to the health of children.
Trump addressed Kennedy’s push to expand medical freedom and empower parents to make informed decisions about vaccinating their children in an interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson for her Full Measure program.
Trump explained that while he supports vaccines in general, he opposed government mandates that forced parents to subject their children to so many shots.
“I believe in vaccines, but I don’t believe that, you know, you have to have a mandate for all of them,” Trump stated.
Trump went on to say that some vaccines, like the Polio vaccines, were proven successes, but that countries like Denmark still protected the health and safety of children even though that country mandates far fewer vaccines than in the United States.
“The polio vaccine’s amazing, you know, wiped it out. And I believe in vaccines, but you know, I think we’re up to 88 vaccines. And I really feel that vaccines, if they were given in smaller quantities. They want to cut some out, and I think that’s good, too, and I agree with that. Eighty-two’s too many. If you look at Denmark and other countries, you have 12, 14, I think 17. And we have like 82,” Trump added.
“But I look at these beautiful babies, and they get a vat, like a big glass, of stuff pumped into their bodies. And I think it’s a very negative thing to do. And I would like to see it — I’m not doing this in terms of Bobby or not, I hope they agree with that, but that’s just my opinion — I would love to see much smaller shots, like four visits to the doctor. And I think you would have a much better result with the autism,” Trump continued.
Supporting medical freedom and allowing parents to make decisions about vaccines for their children is a politically winning position.
A POLITICO poll found that nearly half of Americans believe the science on vaccines is still up for debate.
This is now a mainstream issue that political strategists argued Republicans shouldn’t walk away from in the 2026 and 2028 elections.
“What stands out is that vaccine safety and vaccine choice are no longer fringe issues,” Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense, told POLITICO of the survey’s results. “People want to be able to make their own medical decisions.”
The Trump administration signaled it is heeding both science and public opinion.
“Science should be an engine for knowledge and freedom, not something where it stands on top of society and says, ‘You must do this, this, and this, or else,” National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said at a Senate hearing last year. “It shouldn’t be pushing mandates for vaccines, like the COVID vaccines, that were tested for a relatively short period of time.”
Establishment Republicans would love to sideline the Make America Great Again movement, as Big Pharma controls many swamp RINOs.
But President Trump knows Kennedy’s endorsement in 2024 helped him win the popular vote since Kennedy built a grassroots movement to challenge the vaccine mandates foisted upon parents.
Americans want to see a robust debate about vaccine policy, and Trump and Kennedy are siding with the science that questions the number of vaccines mandated for children.
