President Donald Trump has signed an order that calls for fewer childhood vaccines and recommends changing how the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine is delivered, including splitting MMR doses.

Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said that children received only a “small fraction” of the vaccines required today and argued that earlier generations were “much healthier”. He also claimed that autism rates now seen were not present in past decades, repeating a line his administration has promoted for years.

The Trump administration has long backed a link between MMR vaccines and autism that has been widely discredited. However, multiple studies have found no association between the two.

Federal authority limited to state requirements

The federal government does not have the power to put the new recommendations into effect. Requirements for vaccinations needed for school attendance are set by individual states.

Even so, Trump said the administration is “recognising gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations” covering only 11 core vaccinations aimed at protecting against the most serious and dangerous diseases.

What the order recommends

Under the order, the immunisations recommended for all children include vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, as well as diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. It also covers polio and Haemophilus influenzae type B, alongside pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus and varicella, or chickenpox.

The order also includes a recommendation to split the MMR shots, rather than giving them as a combined dose, according to the description of the order.

Trump says children would receive fewer jabs

Trump said the approach would reduce the number of vaccinations. He added that the change would involve receiving vaccines across a series of doctor visits.

“We’re reducing them,” he said, describing the plan as not only involving fewer vaccines, but also spreading them out into multiple appointments.

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He commented on it several months ago.

He finally put pen to paper and followed through.

The depth and breadth of this guy's willful ignorance reaches new heights with each passing day

Trump himself publicly acknowledged the COVID booster in December 2021. At a Dallas event, he told the audience he had received the booster; the crowd booed, and Trump responded by defending vaccination.

Honest question, has Trump taken all his vaccines?

I think one sign of autism is you need to "rest your eyes" frequently when other people are talking. 😃

Trump mocked over apparent zone-out during Oval Office vaccine announcement

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He call the MMR vaccine "lethal". A reporter called him out on it.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics calls the recommendation on measles, mumps and rubella shots "dangerous".

The president suggested the MMR vaccine could be "quite lethal" if given at once. He compared it to pouring a bottle of soda into a child's body.

When a reporter asked for evidence of the "lethal" claim, Trump said: "What I've heard is that there are some people that say it is that way."

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msqrwbjwtp2w

Comments suggests a true motivation is monetary.

<deleted>wittery; the EO requires clinicians to offer three separate shots to protect against measles, mumps and rubella. There are no FDA approved separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines available. They are approved for other countries, but the US does not recognise foreign drug approvals nor clinical data.

The previous separate vaccines, approved in the 1960s, based on 1960s standards, are no longer available on the US market.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/one-shot-three-understanding-measles-mumps-rubella-mmr-vaccine

Monovalent measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines are not currently licensed in the US, and bringing new vaccines to market would require manufacturers to invest in development, run clinical trials, and secure Food and Drug Administration approval.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/cdc-separate-mmr-vaccines

Breaking up the vaccines “would be a remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary action”, said Jason Schwartz, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health.

Adding more shots to the schedule would make it more expensive to vaccinate children, and they would need more visits with pediatricians to receive the shots. If all childhood immunizations were given separately, it would take 20 visits to get a six-month-old fully vaccinated.

“The more visits, the more appointments, the more follow-up doses that are required, parents – given that lives are complicated and vaccine schedules are complicated – will be less likely to complete all the additional appointments or follow-up visits required,” Schwartz said. “Splitting up will mean that fewer kids will complete the MMR series.”

While separate vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella were licensed in the 1960s, only the combined MMR shots are now available for use in the United States.

The current MMR shots in the US are made by Merck and GSK. Both companies have said there is no published scientific evidence to support separating the vaccines, and the combination vaccines play an important role in making vaccination easy and inexpensive. Releasing separate vaccines now would require entirely new saline placebo-controlled clinical trials under new Trump administration policies

So likely the US will see over the next few years an explosion in mumps, measles and rubella cases, and resultant deaths. The FDA will be forced to issue EUAs due to the manmade epidemic; Emergency Use Authorisations, which were used for COVID-19 vaccinations. The EUA category was originally intended for the aftermath of a biological or chemical weapon attack, to speed the deployment of essentially experimental therapeutics to the population (you can't realistically get FDA approval for an Ebola, Marburg virus treatment, as the clinical trials would be horrific). EUAs are of a temporary nature, and authorisations automatically lapse when an emergency is declared over. If I was American, and concerned for the health of my children, I would delay having children for at least 4 years.

Robert Kennedy believes the convicted fraudster and now cable television star, Andrew Wakefield, should have statues erected in his honour.

Someone will be held culpable for the consequences.

15 minutes ago, Roadsternut said:

Releasing separate vaccines now would require entirely new saline placebo-controlled clinical trials under new Trump administration policies

Great lets see independent transparent placebo controlled trials for all 'vaccines' and medication.

DUMBO DONNY STRIKES AGAIN........

"United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pushing for a rethink of school vaccine mandates and repeating calls for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to be separated into three individual shots.

Curbing vaccines has been a key priority for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy jnr, who founded an anti-vaccine nonprofit and has long promoted a disproven link between immunisation and autism.

This despite years of scientific evidence that supports the safety of a combined MMR vaccine.

Public health experts have long advised that the combined shot offers children more protection faster and also decreases the logistical hurdles for parents who may struggle to make multiple appointments.

Yet during the Oval Office signing, Trump made a series of incendiary and unsupported statements, including: “Together, there could be a possibility they are quite lethal”.

Kennedy is accused of contributing significantly to the crisis by spreading anti-vaccine sentiment and fuelling fears of well-studied and proven immunisations.

Polling indicates that most Americans still support vaccination, and in recent months both Kennedy and Trump had backed off anti-vaccination rhetoric that could spell negative repercussions in November’s Midterm vote.

But today’s efforts show the issue remains a core component of their health policy agenda, as both men remain committed to the false notion that vaccines can cause autism.

Such a potential link has been debunked by years of research

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/trump-orders-school-vaccines-review-and-to-split-mmr-jab-into-three-shots/WYI2SNIU5FA2HCBDVFHNSKTLF4/

And to finish the nonsense from trump and kennedy, here is a priceless quote supposedly from a brainless MAGA………”I blame Biden. He shoulda done a better job explaining how trump’s policies were gonna screw people like me. That’s why I’m still MAGA”.

States are entirely within their legal rights under the U.S. Constitution to ignore federal vaccine guidance and enforce their own public health policies to protect their residents. A state can override federal advice, but if federal insurance rules or grants change, state taxpayers or local patients have to pick up the bill.

The Health Secretary uses the federal platform ("the bully pulpit") to shape public perception, physician practices, and consumer behavior, regardless of state-level policy. Come next election these clowns should be hitting the road.

2 minutes ago, johng said:

Great lets see independent transparent placebo controlled trials for all 'vaccines' and medication.

Are you volunteering your children/grandchildren for placebos and deliberate infection. How many are you prepared to sacrifice? Or you're incel, have no kids.

Another f**kwit to add to my <deleted>list.

2 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Kennedy is accused of contributing significantly to the crisis by spreading anti-vaccine sentiment and fuelling fears of well-studied and proven immunisations.

Yep lots of accusation...but very little of the 'well-studied and proven' bit.

all 'vaccines' and other medications should be tested against a placebo group

by independent and transparent entities not by the people who are manufacturing and trying to sell the 'product' !

3 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

Another f**kwit to add to my <deleted>list.

You are quite welcome to use your own kids and/or grandkids as Guinea pigs for the pharma companies, but not mine.

People who receive a placebo are not placed in any danger at all..that's the whole point..you test something that might be dangerous..the novel mRNA concoction for example against something completely innocuous like a saline solution...I don't think it's ethical to use children for these studies as there needs to be informed consent for the possibility of adverse reactions up to and including death from the supposed cure.

As for your list well you can do whatever you want..I don't give a flying !!!!

and I'll add that as a free speech 'absolutist' there are no such lists for my part.

If you don't listen to dissenting voices you'll likely end up in a death spiral echo chamber.

A-greed. That's what pharma is all about, like all capitalists--best returns for your shareholders.

I'm a believer in vaccines. However, we did not follow the 6-month protocol for any of our children. First vax at three and finished the schedule by school start. In hindsight, I think even that might be a little bit early. Maybe the full schedule by age 10.

Interesting that Dr Whale Head is the longest "serving" Cabinet member.

19 hours ago, save the frogs said:

He commented on it several months ago.

He finally put pen to paper and followed through.

A big, heartfelt thank you to Trump for this, that's why we support him. It's great news.

4 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

A big, heartfelt thank you to Trump for this, that's why we support him. It's great news.

A step in the right direction.

Next!?

6 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

A step in the right direction.

Next!?

Still lots to do indeed.

34 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I'm a believer in vaccines. However, we did not follow the 6-month protocol for any of our children. First vax at three and finished the schedule by school start. In hindsight, I think even that might be a little bit early. Maybe the full schedule by age 10.

'I'm a believer in vaccines'. Must ask why.

There is no evidence, anywhere, at any time, that shows vaxxes, any of them, are safe, effective or necessary.

4 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

A big, heartfelt thank you to Trump for this, that's why we support him. It's great news.

He's doing some good things.

But his haters will never admit to anything.

I hear from American TV commercials a certain medication's side effect of swelling around the genitals and anus could be fatal. 🫪

22 hours ago, Tug said:

Take a look at the stable genius cabinet……there’s a clue ehh??

Much more stable and actually hired on merit instead of DEI/Woke BS.

Notice no drag queens in the cabinet nor topless drag queen exhibitions on the White House lawn? As was common under the Biden administration.

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56 minutes ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Notice no drag queens in the cabinet nor topless drag queen exhibitions on the White House lawn? As was common under the Biden administration.

I guess no one on their "team" will admit that a trans going topless in front of the white house is degrading the nobility of the place.

But they will yap endlessly about how Trump's decor is tacky.

Nice find.

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By far the best Health Minister the US has ever had.

Make America Great Again Anti-vax quackery means you are strong and think for yourself and do your own research because you are smarter than the experts. 😄

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It will be interesting (but sad), to watch the increase in Rubella Syndrome Hearing Loss in children, five years from now.
People rarely die from Measles, but quite common to have it affect hearing, often causing profound deafness in children. It's one of the leading causes of hearing loss in children.
Perhaps RFK Jr. will institute Prayer Groups or Crystal Healers to take the place of vaccines. After all, we saw how effective they were during the Pandemic.

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5 hours ago, save the frogs said:

He's doing some good things.

But his haters will never admit to anything.

But this is NOT one of them, For decades the MMR vaccination has worked well but the two clowns want to change this..........get real STFs, this is a backward step. and some. Absolutely pathetic.

4 minutes ago, xylophone said:

But this is NOT one of them, For decades the MMR vaccination has worked well but the two clowns want to change this..........get real STFs, this is a backward step. and some. Absolutely pathetic.

I don't have time nor the medical expertise to debate it too much.

According to the gov website, US kids get twice as many vaccines as kids in some EU countries.

1 minute ago, save the frogs said:

I don't have time nor the medical expertise to debate it too much.

According to the gov website, US kids get twice as many vaccines as kids in some EU countries.

Well I have had the MMR, TB, Polio, Diptheria and Smallpox vaccines as a kid, as did many others, and on top of those, in my time, I've had a yellow fever vaccination, many tetanus shots, a gamma globulin booster, shingles vaccination and probably some I have forgotten about.......my son also had the MMR, TB, Polio, Diptheria and Smallpox vaccines as a kid. So I believe in them and the science wholeheartedly, much more than I would put my trust in two White House bozos without an ounce of common sense or medical quailications between them.

Also remember the Kennedy is an "anti-vax" nut-job. Read and weep.