On Aug. 10, 2026, the Trump administration issued an executive order revising the childhood vaccine recommendations in the United States. The order calls for recommending that all children be vaccinated against eleven diseases (down from the current 17), including measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, and varicella.1 2 3 4 5
The order also calls for splitting up the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine into three separate shots rather than the current three-in-one shot and spacing out the administration of childhood vaccinations as much as possible. Additionally, it directs the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HSS) to present plans within 90 days for additional research into childhood vaccines, specifically to conduct safety and efficacy involving vaccine ingredients, evaluate risk/benefit profiles of the vaccines, and look at ways to improve vaccine safety monitoring and transparency.1 2 3 4 5
According to White House spokesperson Kush Desai:
President Trump has been clear: America must have the best childhood vaccine schedule in the world. The Administration remains steadfastly committed to delivering on this presidential priority with Gold Standard Science for the countless parents whose questions and concerns about vaccinations have been ignored or mocked.6
Maximizing Parental Choice on Vaccines
President Trump characterized his executive order as a “major victory for parents’ rights, religious and constitutional rights, and for the gold standard science.”4 In fact, the order contains an entire section titled “Maximizing Parental Choice over Childhood Vaccines.” It reads:
The Attorney General shall take appropriate measures to further meritorious legal actions challenging State laws that conflict with States’ constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.
The Departments of Justice, Education, and HHS shall take appropriate action to ensure that their contractors and grantees, including States and localities, are compliant with their constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, their obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.5
More Research on Vaccines and Autism
Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much healthier and of course, the high rates of autism now observed did not exist. So, there’s a reason for such epidemic rates of autism. And we’re going to bring it back to much closer to where it was. While we do not know exactly what the cause is with respect to autism, it is essential to our research efforts that we have the very best vaccine recommendations in the entire world.2
CNN had previously reported that during the past few months, Trump has “pressed senior officials, including U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to prioritize greater scrutiny of vaccines,” saying that “behind the scenes, Trump has continued to press Kennedy and others for more action on vaccines, focusing in particular on efforts to investigate the causes of autism.”8
The order is a follow-up to an executive order issued by Trump earlier this year titled “Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries.” That order, signed on May 29, 2026, endorsed a scientific assessment done in January by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) calling for a reduction in the number of recommended vaccines for children and adolescents in closer alignment with other peer nations and for federal health agencies to align their policies with the findings of the study.9
“This updated recommendation finally aligns the United States with other advanced and developed nations around the world. More importantly, it aligns us with common sense and knowledge,” Trump said.1
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Click here to view References:1 Constantino AK. Trump signs executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, falsely linking shots to autism. CNBC Aug. 10, 2026.
2 Escobedo R, Watson K. Trump signs order on childhood vaccine recommendations, citing autism. CBS News Aug. 10, 2026.
3 Psaki S. What Trump’s Executive Order Means for Childhood Vaccinations. Council on Foreign Relations Aug. 13, 2026.
4 Swenson A, Binkley C. Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups’ guidance. Associated Press Aug. 11, 2026.
5 Trump DJ. Abut Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans. The White House Aug. 10, 2026.
6 Reuters. Trump Administration Considers Order on Autism and Vaccines, Source Says. U.S. News & World Report Aug. 6, 2026.
7 Miller D. Trump mulls executive order on vaccines and autism: report. Fox 5 Aug. 7, 2026.
8 TVR Staff. Executive Order Directs CDC to Reduce Number of Recommended Childhood Vaccines. The Vaccine Reaction June 2, 2026.
9 Cancryn A. White House considering order targeting vaccines and autism despite advisers’ warnings. CNN Aug. 6, 2026.
14 Responses
Thank you, President Trump and HHS Secretary Kennedy! This is a great start to bringing vaccination back to sanity!
That’s great news. Unless you live in a radical leftist state with crazed brain dead lunatics feverishly passing insane rules in support of their pharmasuetical industrial complex puppet masters. Colorado even went so far as taking the ten minute opt out video class and turning it into a grotesque hour long struggle session complete with a myriad of technical wizardry designed to confuse those without technical aptitude and deny a functional operational state if you use ad blockers and such.
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/08/12/colorado-shifts-vaccine-authority-to-state-as-trump-administration-revises-childhood-framework/
The propaganda stays rich in Colorado. If we don’t poison every child to the maximum extent possible, they won’t be protected! Trust the science, misinformation only comes from those whom are not subservient to the pharmasuetical industrial complex like we are!
In Colorado we’re governed by moral degenerates, race baiters, the insatiably greedy, radical socialists, and outright stupid low IQ bozos, with the occasional smart player in the mix whom usually uses their powers for evil rather than good. They remain in power via digital vote machine tampering that never ends. When do the real deportations start?
Well, it’s a start. Honestly, I don’t care for vaccines at all. I stopped receiving vaccines over 30 years ago. I thank Trump for signing an executive order. I give him some credits. That certainly has met MAHA goal. I’m not a big fan of President Trump.
On the other hand, Big Beautiful Bill including a big massive cut on SNAP benefits for low income isn’t a true mission of MAHA. I can’t support it.
Neither is it the job of U.S. citizens to fund the obesity of low income people. With these goofy courts, we can’t even stop them from using SNAP benefits for junk food. We’ve easily got the fattest low income people in the world. I can’t support that.
I hear you, but junk foods are cheaper than healthy foods as far as I’m aware of. 🤷🏻♀️How can low income people afford increased cost of groceries? Historically, they don’t receive enough monthly SNAP benefits. The average grocery is about $350-$500 a month for one person while average snap benefit is $188 per month for one person. Why don’t you talk to people who receive snap benefits? People can be cruel to those who receive the benefits. Please be kind.
Always be careful trusting Mr. Warpspeed. My analysis:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-211627987
Interesting analysis. I don’t trust this admin one bit. First term seemed ok but there has been a 180 in his second term.
Now that’s great news!!! Can we also stop giving NEWBORNS ANY INJECTIONS AT ALL ALLOWING THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM A CHANCE TO BEGIN AFTER FEEDING AT THEIR MOTHERS BREAST FOR ALL THE GREAT STUFF THEY RECEIVE!!! Have mothers express their colostrum and either feed it to their child or feed directly from the mother!!!
Nowhere good enough. I couldn’t care less about reducing the amount of “recommended” vaccines, as long as they remain MANDATORY. All vaccines should be completely VOLUNTARY; no “opt out” or exemption necessary. In retrospect, one should be required to “opt in” to an experiment on our children. I’m sick and tired of treating this like it should be the norm. It’s absolutely not. So until these poisons are made voluntary in EVERY circumstance, I will not be patting anyone on the back for accomplishing basically nothing.
I share your sentiment. It’s a start, but not an ideal executive order. ALL VACCINES MUST BE voluntary, period. We’re not a Guinea pig!!!
RFKJr is a hero of our time. He sacrificed his liberal politics to save children. I have so much respect for him and so much gratitude.
Thank you more than words can express to President Trump and HHS Secretary Kennedy! This is a great start to helping the horrifying truth about vaccination be revealed, . I was given a polio vaccination at the age of seven months. As a result, I suffered neurological damage. Leaving me unable to walk forever. Those speak positively about vaccination are liars and are truly beyond clueless to pain of vaccination in the long term. Instead, we should focus on giving our children nutritious foods not vaccination!!
God Bless President Trump and HHS Secretary Kennedy! Sending you both appreciation and love. We need more strong men like you!!!
Assume there is a lake that people swam in for years without any drowning deaths. Then someone introduced crocodiles into the lake. As the crocodiles increased, more and more deaths were blamed on drowning. Swim classes were introduced, but people continued to drown.
Then one day some idiot said that it was not drowning that caused the deaths, but it was the crocodiles. If we get rid of the crocodiles, then people will not drown. But the crocodiles provided money with their hides to the shoe industry, when they were farmed. The shoe industry appealed to Congress which passed laws requiring the crocodile population to increase. So, more and more people drowned, and it continued to be blamed on people not taking swimming lessons. GUESS WHAT? MAYBE IT IS TIME TO GET RID OF THE CROCODILES!
The entire medical/pharmaceutical/food/government system is a genocidal assault built around poisoning for profit.