President Donald Trump is being roasted after the White House posted what’s been called an “out of context” 2017 tweet from Tylenol warning pregnant women not to take their products.
The New York Post reported that the White House reposted the tweet on Wednesday.
In the 2017 tweet, Tylenol wrote, “We actually don’t recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.”
Re-posting the tweet, the White House wrote, “President Trump is right.”
Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services have come under fire after the agency warned pregnant women not to take Tylenol after claiming that studies had shown that the acetaminophen painkiller it contains could cause autism in children.
Trump at a press conference told pregnant women that they shouldn’t take Tylenol unless they were experiencing a high-risk fever.
HHS, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also shared a screen shot of the 2017 Tylenol tweet.
Trump supporters were quick to back the president.
“Liberal women, please take as many Tylenols during pregnancy as possible. Prove Trump wrong, ok?” one person posted on X.
But Kenvue, which is Tylenol’s parent company, said that the eight-year-old tweet, which was a reply to prior tweet from a customer, was being “taken out of context.”
“We do not make recommendations on taking any medications in pregnancy because that is the job of a healthcare provider,” the company said.
“This eight-year-old consumer response is incomplete and did not address our full guidance on the safe use of Tylenol which has not changed: Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy.”
Said one poster on X, “You just can’t believe anything coming from the Trump administration these days – all lies, distortions, or conspiracy theories!! Trump’s lack of values is a cancer eating away at our country.”
Medical experts have fired back at the autism assertion by Trump and HHS.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said on Monday that the suggestion that acetaminophen use in pregnancy caused autism was not backed by reliable data and “dangerously simplifies the many and complex causes of neurologic challenges in children,” The New York Times reported.