US President Donald Trump appeared to close his eyes and tilt his head during an executive order ceremony at the White House on Monday, August 10.
Trump, 80, was attending the Oval Office event as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, spoke about the administration’s public health agenda. Bhattacharya described the occasion as a “historic day” for public health in the United States.
During the ceremony, Trump signed an executive order directing federal health officials to overhaul recommendations for childhood vaccines. The move comes amid claims from his administration linking vaccines to autism, despite established scientific evidence showing no causal connection between vaccines and autism.
The order calls for changes to how childhood vaccines are recommended and administered across the country. Trump’s administration has made vaccine policy a major public health issue, drawing both support and criticism from medical experts and public health organizations.
