Trump says ‘we found answer to autism’ in bizarre rant at Charlie Kirk’s funeral: ‘Biggest medical announcement in US history’

President Donald Trump used Charlie Kirk’s memorial to tout a bombshell autism announcement he plans to make on Monday.

Trump was the final speaker at Kirk’s emotional send-off at State Farm Stadium in Arizona on Sunday afternoon.

One by one, administration officials and Kirk’s devastated wife Erika shared heartfelt tributes to the late conservative commentator, who was assassinated on September 10, and shared inspirational messages to the 200,000-strong crowd.

When Trump approached the podium to speak, he detoured into uncharted territory, revealing he planned to make an announcement from the Oval Office on Monday which he believed Kirk would have looked forward to.

‘I think you’re going to find it to be amazing,’ he told the crowd. ‘I think we found an answer to autism.’

Trump vowed his administration ‘won’t let it happen anymore.’

‘I think it’s going to be one of the most important news conferences I’ll ever have, and I look so forward to it.’

Earlier on Sunday, reports suggested Trump planned to announce that pregnant women should avoid taking Tylenol unless they have a fever due to the increased risk.

The advice comes from a federal review into what is driving rising rates of autism across the US, an initiative spearheaded by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Officials also plan to to tout a medication called leucovorin as a possible treatment for the neurodevelopmental disorder, according to the Washington Post report.

Earlier this year, doctors told the Daily Mail they have seen remarkable results in nonverbal youngsters given the little-known drug, which costs just $2.50 per pill.

Leucovorin is derived from folic acid (also known as Vitamin B9), a vital nutrient that help with autism symptoms. Though it is not a cure for autism, it could help improve communication and other behaviors.

Autism rates have drastically increased over the past two decades, with one in 150 children having the disorder in 2000 to about one in 31 children having it as of April 2025. 

While many doctors believe the autism rise if because we’re better at detecting it now, RFK Jr has hinted that environmental toxins are to blame leading him to pledge to probe food, pesticides and vaccines. 

Elsewhere in Trump’s memorial speech, he acknowledged America is ‘is a nation in grief and a nation in shock, and a nation in mourning.’

Trump said Kirk was ‘one of the brightest lights of our time and our greatest evangelist for liberty.’

”He’s a martyr now for American freedom,’ Trump said, echoing several previous speakers.

‘None of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk. And neither now will history.’

Trump also addressed Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, describing him as a ‘radicalized, cold-blooded monster.

‘He was violently killed because he spoke for freedom and justice, for God, country, for reason, and for common sense,’ Trump said of Kirk.

‘The assassin failed in his quest because Charlie’s message has not been silenced. It now is bigger and better and stronger than ever before.’