President Donald Trump has what one analyst described as a “mysterious obsession” with vaccines that could wreak havoc on the American people long after he leaves office.
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Trump, along with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has embarked on one of the most flagrant anti-vaccine campaigns in modern history, culminating with revising the childhood vaccine schedule to reduce the total number of vaccines required. Russ Baker, a Democratic analyst, speculated in a new Substack essay on Sunday that the reason why Trump has embarked on such a crusade is that Trump believes vaccines are responsible for the “atypical” nature of his youngest son.
“I can’t read his mind, of course (nor would I want to), but there’s a curious temporal coincidence that might explain Trump’s fixation on the ‘harm’ caused by vaccination: On March 20, 2006, his son Barron was born,” Baker argued. “By the next year, Trump was fulminating about vaccines causing babies to be born with various problems — including autism.”
“Now, one wants to be careful about drawing connections — and to say anything about a young person still finding their way in the world, albeit with a lot of help — but Barron Trump has often been described as ‘atypical,'” Baker continued.
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“If his father, who has been cruel about human imperfections (remember his vicious mockery of disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski), was unhappy dealing with a child possibly born with some impediments — and if that father was the kind of person who cannot accept the reality that such things happen, and therefore likes to blame others, and other causes — then, well, we have a pretty good reason for him to look for an excuse,” he wrote. “Like … vaccines.”
Baker also warned that Trump’s obsession could have devastating consequences going forward.
“This dangerous state of affairs may be one of Trump’s most lasting legacies, having a profound and enduring impact on the US population, its well-being, and even its national security. It stands to touch virtually every family in some irreversible way,” he wrote.
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