Fact-checking Trump’s claims as he rolls back some recommended vaccines0

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• August 11, 2026

When speaking about autism the president said: “It’s many, many times what it used to be years ago, and it gets progressively worse. And we had progressively more and more vaccines.” He said it was “one in 10,000 20 years ago”. While that rate has increased over the last two decades, it did not grow