Joe Rogan slams pregnant women posting videos of taking Tylenol to defy Trump admin

AUSTIN, TEXAS: Joe Rogan had some choice words for a bizarre TikTok trend where pregnant women are popping Tylenol on camera just to troll President Donald Trump’s latest health warning.

On the Friday, September 26 episode of 'The Joe Rogan Experience', the podcast king tore into clips that show moms-to-be swallowing the pain and fever reliever in protest of Trump’s administration recommending against it.

“I’ve been fascinated by these videos of pregnant women taking Tylenol to show Trump that they don’t believe in what RFK Jr is saying, that it’s somehow or another anti-science, when this science came from Harvard,” Rogan said. “That’s where the study came from. He’s not making things up. And these people are like on TikTok — they’re pregnant women taking Tylenol.”

The Trump administration has pointed to a Harvard study linking Tylenol’s active ingredient, acetaminophen, to autism diagnoses in children, citing it as a reason for their recommendation.

Pregnant TikTokers clap back by downing Tylenol

Pregnant TikTokers who seem to dislike Donald Trump weren’t having it. Instead, they filmed themselves downing Tylenol, in defiance of the president as well as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

In most of the clips reviewed by The Daily Caller, users appeared to stick to standard doses. One viral video showed a woman holding up two Tylenol capsules before tossing them back.

“Here’s is me, a PREGNANT woman, taking TYLENOL because I believe in science and not someone who has no medical background,” the on-screen text read.

The Joe Biden administration’s NIH actually issued similar advice, recommending pregnant women “minimize exposure by using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time” when using acetaminophen.

Big Pharma’s secret notes on acetaminophen

Behind the curtain, the drugmaker wasn’t as dismissive as the TikTok crowd. Company records obtained by The Daily Caller revealed that Johnson & Johnson (which owned Tylenol before spinning off its consumer division into Kenvue in 2023) knew of possible dangers years ago.

“The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me,” Rachel Weinstein, US director of epidemiology for Janssen, J&J’s pharma arm, reportedly wrote in 2018.

Still, Tylenol’s new parent company, Kenvue, insisted, “We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”

Meanwhile, media outlets and public health experts have largely brushed off Trump and RFK Jr’s claims, even as the makers of Tylenol quietly acknowledged they were at least credible enough to track internally.

Trump doubles down on Tylenol advice, goes after vaccines

Donald Trump has been hammering the Tylenol warning all week. On Monday, he urged pregnant women to steer clear of the drug.

“Taking Tylenol is not good. For this reason they are strongly recommending women limit Tylenol use when pregnant unless medically necessary,” he said. “That’s for instance, in cases of extremely high fever that you feel you can’t tough it out.”

On Friday, in a Truth Social post, the commander-in-chief warned, “Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON," he wrote.

The president also called for a radical overhaul of the vaccine schedule. 

“BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS!” Trump stated.

Medical experts, however, stress decades of research prove vaccinating newborns within 24 hours is critical to block Hepatitis B transmission from mother to child, a potentially deadly and cancer-causing infection.