Past occupants of the Oval Office used their bully pulpit to encourage families to avail themselves of the best tools physicians have to safeguard and improve public health. From behind the Resolute Desk, Trump then ignited a potential public health nightmare that his successors could spend decades trying to reverse. Engaging in arguably the most inflammatory litany of public health disinformation articulated by a US president, Trump told parents that “vats of vaccine are currently pumped into your child’s body”. It also declares that when it comes to autism, “scientists in the United States and other countries have carefully studied the MMR vaccine. Measles has officially been eliminated in the United States since 2000, after a public health campaign that was launched in 1978 during Jimmy Carter’s presidency.