President Donald Trump just announced sweeping changes to his administration’s approach to autism. But in a room full of medical experts and reporters, he opened with a gaffe — telling them that acetaminophen is actually Tylenol, something most people already know.
Trump often uses phrases like “many people are saying” or “many people don’t know” when he’s really just talking about himself. In this case, however, acetaminophen is clearly written across the boxes of brands that carry the medicine, such as Panadol or Tylenol, as a basic over-the-counter painkiller. But the POTUS announced the detail as if he was the only one genius enough to discover it and had to come to the aid of the lesser folk. Some online even satirized Trump’s remark, joking that he might next announce H₂O is actually water.
