by Maya Dorsam ‘27

After Jimmy Kimmel’s jab at MAGA supporters after Charlie Kirk’s death, he was suspended from the air after pressure from the  Trump administration. It is awfully concerning that a late-night host is silenced, but President Trump himself continues to make misinformed claims. If anyone should be restricted from their free speech, it should be the President after voicing that Tylenol directly causes autism when taken during pregnancy.

Trump has consistently shown his hypocrisy by choosing to silence others when he spews unsubstantiated claims concerning serious matters. Even his own Food and Drug Administration quickly walked back his statements about the risks of Tylenol due to an obvious lack of evidence. Trump speaks in extremes, telling America to avoid taking Tylenol at all costs, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supported these declarations, citing only an unreviewed paper that has yet to be published in a scientific journal. Free speech is a Constitutional guarantee, but that shouldn’t mean that the most powerful voice in the country gets to put people’s health at risk with unreliable and downright false declarations.