Donald Trump says he has seen 'proof' of a childhood vaccination involving an amount that looked like a bottle of soda. CNN's Erin Burnett then put that claim to a remarkably simple visual comparison, holding up an actual soda bottle beside a syringe containing a 0.5 mL dose of the MMR vaccine. The difference was impossible to miss.
Trump is pushing to cut childhood vaccines, saying he’s seen “proof” a vaccine is “the size of a bottle of soda.” How does it really compare? pic.twitter.com/E3KvWzrcsD
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) August 11, 2026