President Donald Trump finally announced leucovorin as his administration’s long-awaited cure for autism. But as medical professionals began unpacking his statements, there were tangents — including Trump spreading a rumor that Cubans can’t afford Tylenol and therefore have “virtually no autism.”
The idea of spreading a rumor behind the U.S. presidential seal was once unthinkable. That changed when Trump managed the Covid-19 pandemic and claimed he had “heard” you could cure coronavirus by injecting bleach. He infamously suggested it would be “interesting” to see if that would help people’s lungs — a statement that drew immediate backlash.
