Suzanne Harrington: Trump's autism gaffe tells us what kind of world his ilk wants to see

Imagine then a world without the autistic spectrum. No Michelangelo, no Leonardo, no Beethoven, no Mozart. No Emily Dickinson, no Andy Warhol, no Tim Burton or Anthony Hopkins... also no Elon Musk, although we probably wouldn’t miss him too much — and by too much, I mean at all.
Suzanne Harrington: Trump's autism gaffe tells us what kind of world his ilk wants to see

US President Donald Trump during a press conference with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK.

You know in film chase scenes when the bad guy is being pursued and is trying to obstruct his pursuers by hurling rubbish bins in their path? Throwing any old crap at them, to trip them up?

A tidy metaphor for Trump, Tylenol, and Epstein. Trump, desperate to deflect attention from all the “wonderful secrets” he shared with his paedophile pal, declared that Tylenol — paracetamol — causes autism when taken during pregnancy.

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