From the unproven medical claims to the self-proclaimed expertise, anyone watching Donald Trump’s autism announcements Tuesday could have been forgiven for having flashbacks.

There were strong echoes of the US president’s pandemic performance during his first term, when he once famously mused about injecting disinfectant to counter Covid.

Five years later, the Republican’s claims were almost as eye-popping.

And with the health of millions at stake as he urged pregnant women not to take the painkiller Tylenol — before expounding his theories on vaccines — the stakes were just as high.

“There’s a rumor — and I don’t know if it’s so or not — that Cuba, they don’t have Tylenol because they don’t have the money for Tylenol. And they have virtually no autism,” Trump said at the White House.

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