FACT FOCUS: Trump makes false claims as he signs order urging revisions around childhood vaccines

Photo: President Donald J. Trump signs an Executive Order regarding childhood vaccines in the Oval Office, Monday, August 10, 2026. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Melissa Goldin and Laura Ungar. AP News – August 11, 2026.

While issuing an executive order on Monday aimed at getting states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well as their relationship to autism. The order recommends separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate single-disease shots and administering childhood vaccines at separate appointments whenever possible. But many public health experts expressed concern about the recommendations, saying that spacing out the shots could increase the risk that children would become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. […]

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