
Of all the crises demanding presidential attention—you know, economic instability, international tensions, actual governing, the usual—President Trump decided this Friday that the real emergency is too many babies getting vaccinated against a potentially deadly liver disease.
Mere hours after his hand-picked CDC vaccine advisory panel (RFK Jr. got rid of all 17 sitting members in 2025) voted to gut decades-old hepatitis B recommendations for newborns, Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering the health secretary to fast-track a comprehensive review of childhood vaccine schedules, because apparently, what America really, really, really needs right now is more unvaccinated infants.