Donald Trump set to announce 'biggest medical announcement in America's history' today

President Donald Trump has promised that today’s news conference with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will contain the ‘biggest medical announcement in the history of the country’.

Yesterday (21 September), the 79-year-old took to the stage in Glendale, Arizona, to honour the life of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The 31-year-old MAGA supporter was fatally shot during a Prove Me Wrong event at Utah Valley University on 10 September, with police having since charged 22-year-old Tyler Robinson in relation to the shooting.

Taking to the stage at State Farm Stadium, Trump said his ally had been ‘one of the brightest flights of our times’ and a ‘giant of his generation’.

After calling the suspected shooter a ‘radicalised, cold-blooded monster’, the 47th POTUS bizarrely segued into chatting about alleged scientific developments.

Trump made comments about so-called autism research at Charlie Kirk's memorial service (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Tomorrow we are going to have the biggest medical announcement in the history of the country… I think you’re going to find it to be amazing. I think we have an answer to autism,” he claimed.

"I’ve been bugging everybody over there. Get the answer to autism. How to help children, how to prevent it—biggest priority for families.”

The news conference will be held today (22 September) with RFK Jr. and Dr Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

According to the Washington Post, the meeting will see the Trump administration tying pregnant women’s use of paracetamol - known as Tylenol in the United States - to a risk of autism, contrary to medical guidelines.

Legislation in the US states that it is safe for pregnant women to take the over-the-counter pain medication.

Trump said US residents would find the alleged breakthrough 'amazing' (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

However, officials have been reviewing previous research — including an August review by Mount Sinai and Harvard researchers — that suggests a possible link between pill use early on in pregnancy and an increased risk of autism in children, the publication wrote.

The plan is to warn pregnant women against using the pain meds early on unless they have a fever.

“President Trump pledged to address America’s rising rate of autism, and to do so with Gold Standard Science,” spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. “Tomorrow’s announcement will make historic progress on both commitments.”

Trump and RFK Jr. will also use the conference to express how officials plan to tout a drug called leucovorin as a potential autism treatment.

Leucovorin is a form of folinic acid used to make chemotherapy work better, or to reduce its side effects, according to Macmillan Cancer Support. It can also be used to treat vitamin B9 deficiency.

The Washington Post claimed that early double-blind, placebo-controlled trials saw autistic children who were dosed with leucovorin showing remarkable improvements in their ability to speak and understand others.

The forthcoming medical announcement comes months after RFK Jr. announced he’d launched a massive testing and research effort to understand exactly what caused autism, a condition related to brain development.

“In September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures,” he said in April.

As part of the study, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it would gather private medical records from several federal and commercial databases.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has previously said that people shouldn't follow his medical advice (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

This would allow researchers chosen for Kennedy's study from across the world to look at 'comprehensive' patient data with 'broad coverage' of the US population.

"The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain," NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said at the time, per CBS News. "The NIH itself will often pay multiple times for the same data resource. Even data resources that are within the federal government are difficult to obtain."

A month later, RFK Jr. admitted American people probably shouldn’t be taking medical advice from him.

The Republican, who previously confessed he regretted vaccinating his six children, was asked whether he would give them a measles jab.

“For measles? Um … probably for measles,” he said during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.

Explaining that his opinion on vaccines was ‘irrelevant’, he added: “I don’t want to seem like I’m being evasive, but I don’t think people should be taking advice, medical advice, from me.”