Jake Tapper Confronts Trump Honcho Dr Oz Over Autism Claims

Jake Tapper Confronts Trump Honcho Dr Oz Over Autism Claims

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Sep 26th, 2025, 6:33 pm

CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Dr. Mehmet Oz Friday when the cardiologist and former T.V. doctor asserted that autism is a modern phenomenon.

Dr. Oz serves as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and was on-hand along with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week when Donald Trump admonished expectant mothers not to take Tylenol.

“It will take us at least five more years to figure out for sure if there’s a causal relationship between Tylenol and autism — we may never know it for sure,” Dr. Oz began, saying pregnant mothers with a headache or low-grade temperature “just popped a pill because they think it’s not a