Stephen Miller raged about the childhood vaccine schedule as a “medical travesty” as President Donald Trump sat slumped over in his chair, with his eyes appearing to be closed, in the Oval Office during an executive order signing event.
The president, 80, had been calling on different officials to speak ahead of a Monday signing of an executive order aimed at changing federal policy on childhood vaccines when he gave Miller the floor.
Miller claimed millions of Americans are breathing an “enormous sigh of relief” thanks to Trump.
“Millions and millions of parents feel they’ve been pressured when their children are just weeks out of the hospital to take five shots, six shots, seven shots all at once,” Miller claimed.
Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff suggested parents are being told it is normal for children to have a temperature of “103 for three or four days,” that “your kid will stop eating for a week,” and that they will “change all their sleeping.”
“Nobody has studied it, nobody has looked at it, nobody’s thought about it,” Miller claimed of childhood vaccines.
Miller is the father of four young children—including a 10-week-old son, Hawthorne—but he is not a medical professional.
“The pressure from the pharmaceutical industry and from aspects of the medical industry to pump your kids full of shots days after birth with no understanding of the long-term consequences has been a medical travesty,” Miller declared.
“This is an issue, Mr. President, that you have been leading on for years,” Miller said as Trump could be seen seated nearby with his eyes still closed.
“There has been so much heartache where parents have had healthy children with no issues; they know they’ve been pressured into doing things that they didn’t want to do, and medical science has told them for years their concerns are not valid,” Miller declared.
Miller claimed the order would let parents “get off this ridiculous path of having our children get 70 to 90 shots.”
The latest childhood vaccine schedule reduced the number of diseases covered by recommended vaccines from 17 to 11. Even with all the doses, the schedule does not amount to “90 shots” over the course of childhood.
Miller, who holds a BA in political science, claimed each of the shots “produces a profound immunological response” and said repeated shots could cause “vaccine injuries,” as well as “immunological issues” and “potentially neurological issues.”
The 40-year-old also praised the “unbundling” of shots and suggested the vaccinations could be split into five visits. As he rambled, the president’s eyes were still closed. He called the move “courageous” and said it ensures the “dignity of parents” and “restores choice.”
“It says we’re going to let the parent and the doctor make a sound medical decision,” Miller continued, as he heaped praise on his apparently dozing boss.
When it was Trump’s turn to speak, he called for five separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them “all in the same day” before making a bizarre claim.
“I saw this early on, and I’ve seen proof of it where they have a vaccination that looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child’s body,” Trump said. “And bad things happen in many, too many cases.”
Despite saying he had seen “proof” of the bizarre visual, Trump offered no evidence to support his claim.
