Obama said Donald Trump’s claims linking paracetamol to autism in infants is ‘violence against the truth’. Key US politics stories from 24 September 2025
Barack Obama has said the US is in the middle of a “tug of war” between two visions of the future, criticising progressives for becoming “smug” and “complacent” while populists pushed a conservative vision.
The former US president said on one side was the progressive view in which change comes through democracy, while the other, driven by populists including Trump, see a return to an older, more conservative worldview.
