Donald Trump spent this past weekend threatening to send an “Election Integrity Army” into every state for the midterms. The midterms are already f–ked beyond belief because the Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act and many states are already redrawing their congressional maps to marginalize Black voters and Democrats. Oh, and Trump also started saying bizarre sh-t about how he wants to “personally” open up Fort Knox and look at the US’s gold reserves.
On Monday, Trump then decided to hold an Oval Office press conference with Mehmet Oz and Robert Kennedy Jr. The topic at hand? American fertility, and how one in three Americans is “underbabied.” These people are going to unironically remake The Handmaid’s Tale before they’re done.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz is saying some of the U.S. population is “underbabied.”
“That means that you either don’t have children or you have less children than you’d want to have,” Oz said during a White House event on Monday. He pointed to the falling fertility rate in the U.S. and called it a “fertility crisis.”
According to data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, the fertility rate fell a little more than 1% in 2025. In that year, there were 53.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44. To replace a population, researchers say each woman needs to have 2.1 children during their lives. In 2024, the most recent year where data is available, the fertility rate was 1.6 births per woman.
“We’re way below what we need to replace the people that we have in America,” Oz said.
He pointed to the challenges people in rural America face when it comes to maternal health. In rural parts of the country, the maternal mortality rate reached 39.7 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to The Commonwealth Fund.
To address the issue, the Trump administration has created a $50 billion fund called the Rural Health Transformation Program to help rural hospitals struggling across all areas of care, especially maternal care. The program has led to more doctors being trained for hospitals in the rural U.S., using new technology and telehealth services being introduced as well to help women deliver babies wherever they live to combat a shortage of maternity wards.
“Your zip code should not determine your mortality rate if you’re having a baby,” Oz said. “That is going to change.”
The reason rural hospitals are understaffed with obstetricians and gynecologists is because Roe v. Wade was overturned and Republican-controlled states outlawed and criminalized a wide swath of reproductive care. When politicians say outright that they’ll put ob-gyns in prison for caring for their patients, those doctors leave the state. Oz also said that the goal is to have “more Trump babies,” a concept which makes me want to hurl. In the same press conference, Dementia Don dozed off and Robert Kennedy started ranting about sperm. We are living in hell.
Trump seemingly falls asleep during an Oval Office meeting. pic.twitter.com/YfhWSbYUj4
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) May 11, 2026
Dr Oz: "We'll have more Trump babies"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM
RFK Jr. thanks Trump for working to increase young men's sperm count
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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- United States President Donald Trump makes remarks during an event promoting maternal healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House. President Trump is meeting with healthcare workers as his administration launches Moms.gov to highlight resources for unexpected pregnancies. Featuring: President Donald Trump Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 May 2026 Credit: Aaron Schwartz/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States President Donald Trump makes remarks during an event promoting maternal healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House. President Trump is meeting with healthcare workers as his administration launches Moms.gov to highlight resources for unexpected pregnancies. Featuring: President Donald Trump Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 May 2026 Credit: Aaron Schwartz/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr gives remarks during an event promoting maternal healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on Monday May 11, 2026. President Trump is meeting with healthcare workers as his administration launches Moms.gov to highlight resources for unexpected pregnancies. Featuring: Robert F Kennedy Jr Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 May 2026 Credit: Aaron Schwartz/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- Dr Mehmet Oz, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) speaks during an event hosted by US President Donald Trump promoting maternal healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House. President Trump is meeting with healthcare workers as his administration launches Moms.gov to highlight resources for unexpected pregnancies. Featuring: Mehmet Oz Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 May 2026 Credit: Aaron Schwartz/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
Trump looks like a corpse.
Please God, let that come true.
He’s a sick man and not fit to be president.
Not gonna happen until after January. MAGA thinks they are going to replace Vance with Trump and then let Vance have 2 more terms. If Vance becomes president before January, he will only be able to have one more term as president.
I’m going to hurl if we have to have MAGA for 10 1/2 more years.
Isn’t AI supposed to be coming for everyone’s job? Seems like fewer babies to later become unemployed adults is a good thing.
Yeah, this just always strikes me as a racist trope. The breeding programme. Because the planet is heaving with people. I mean. We don’t lack humans, FFS. What’s happening is that — to cite Russell Peters — white people are on limited release. So either societies will integrate immigrants into the work force to prop up social safety nets that are threadbare, with tax contributes and labour, in care homes and hospitals, or, we’ll just get older on balance, and the average age of a citizen of a US / Western European state will be 65. Wrinkly. Saggy. No offence, but, youth, globally, is not white. That should be cause for celebration. They’re more attractive anyway, tend to have fewer tattoos, and eat less junk food. If trump were not racist, he would welcome this.
Perfectly stated
Republicans believe life begins at conception and ends at birth. They are doing nothing about the 182 rural hospitals that have closed since 2010, nor are they advocating for universal childcare and healthcare. They deliberately refused to make the child tax credit implemented during the pandemic permanent. They have actively blocked efforts to relieve people of child bearing age from the burden of student debt. They want poor white women to have more babies who will be stuck in a permanent cycle of poverty to feed their greed.
Saying non white people are more attractive, have less tattoos, and eat less junk food is inherently racist.
I’m a white person fwiw. I just call it like I see it. 😆
I think they’re actually saying that non-white people tend to age better
I think the intent was to be anti-American. Apparently we’re fat, ugly, tattooed undesirables. Never mind that other cultures have been tattooing themselves for millennia and I’ve seen Pringles and KFC in every country I’ve been to except Iran.
Nah, I think it’s cool. Having a good personality and caring about your community and the future makes people more beautiful and lots of white people… don’t.
prejudiced maybe but racist no because they dont control any of the systems, they all belong to the whites
@YankeeDoodles … to also cite Russell Peters … eventually we’ll all be mixed and the color beige … mixed babies are beautiful babies.
They can join the former AG of Missouri who wanted to outlaw misepristone because not enough teenagers were having babies. As a mother of a teen mom, they all can go F themselves. We should not be talking about a woman’s choice to have or not have babies. And to encourage teens to have babies is abominable.
Never have I been happier to not have any children. The term “Trump Babies” has me looking for the vomit emoji. And yes, the real priorities in America right now should be increasing the sperm count of young men. Where do they find these clowns??
If I had children I would never sleep again because the future is beyond bleak.
Same. I question whether I should make vacation plans for October, because what if the world is burning down by then?
Yep, it is literally minute-to-minute these days.
Tiffany, it had better wait until after November 4 because I plan to vote in the midterms on November 3, not that my vote for Katherine Clark is going to change Congress much and my consolation for all three of my teams getting eliminated in the playoffs in just a week and a half is a trip to NYC on November 4 to see Much Ado About Nothing with Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston. It can burn down on November 5 if it’s going to do that.
Nooooo LP please do not for Katherine Clark! $573K and counting from AIPAC. She has so much power and she does absolutely nothing with it. She has an awesome challenger in Jonathan Paz. Please check him out!
Republicans obsession with children’s reproductive parts is truly sickening.
If I was a woman of child-bearing age living in the U.S. I would be finding a way to get my tubes tied ASAP.
If you were a woman of child bearing age in the U.S., good luck finding a doctor to do it. I tried in my mid-thirties when a Democrat was in the white house, and was told “no ethical” doctor would perform the procedure on a childless woman my age. MID THIRTIES.
I’d like to say it’s probably gotten better in the last 15 years, but ** motions at all of this **
If the fascists are worried about low birth rates in the US – I presume because they’ve scared immigrants away, and billionaire tax cuts don’t pay for themselves – then this country needs to support women who want to have children. We need to end trickle-down economics and tax the wealthy, so the tax burden is alleviated for middle class families. We need paid family leave, equal pay, universal child care and health care. Oh, and we also need a federal government that’s not pissing away our money on a war that’s driving up costs in oil, fertilizer, and other materials globally.
And the real crisis in maternal mortality is among Black women. Of course, these Nazis are fine with that.
Support women who want to have children? But that would mean providing affordable, quality natal care, not passing draconian laws that prevent medical intervention during pregnancy complications, and generally treating people with uteruses as human beings and not incubators. Now they’re gonna call you a radical.
“Trump babies” = Lebensborn.
Never forget that Trump said that Hitler “had some good ideas.”
I came to mention this. This program was created during the Hitler regime to increase the Aryan population.
Here is a link from Google.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensborn-program
I feel like this is a good time to remember that Hitler looked to the U.S. a model of a “respectable” segregated society.
PS: Sperm counts are down, and women are experiencing infertility at high rates because of the petrochemical plastics and other chemicals that are all around us, in everything. We need to support innovation that will move us away from petrochemical products, and make plastic from plants again. Watching this documentary, The Plastic Detox on Netflix, has made me overhaul how we buy and store food. https://www.netflix.com/title/82074244
I first read the Handmaid’s Tale in high school in the 80s. As a budding feminist full of teen angst, it was a blast to read something so over the top horrific that we could get angry about, even through the safety net of knowing it was just fiction.
These days I have to wonder if Margaret Atwood is kicking herself for accidentally writing the playbook of this insanity. (The specific cause of infertility isn’t explained in the book, but that doesn’t matter. Even then the planet was racing toward environmental destruction with open arms).
I am so disgusted by this I want to scream like Willy at a soccer (football) match! The Epstein crowd is trying force women and children to have babies.. and teenagers are children no matter what they want you to believe I was a teen mom I love my kids but it is something I’m so happy they never had to do… my kids waited until their late thirties for kids and they are so much better off than I was, both emotionally and financially. I would not trade my kids for the world but if they had come later in life we wouldn’t have had to struggle so much especially in the beginning.
Sure, let’s all just squat on the side of the road and pop out a baby. And let’s have lots of them in case we lose a few because they won’t be vaccinated.
Seriously, he’s asking women to make a lifetime commitment for the betterment of what? Certainly not for the betterment of women. Aside from the health and medical aspects, raising a child from birth through college is something like half a million dollars. So, who’s going to pay for that when job participation by young men has dropped below 70%?
I can’t stand these a-holes! Since the Repubs gutted Medicaid, over 700 rural hospitals and clinics have either closed or are closing. The teen pregnancy rate has fallen to its lowest – they’ve been screaming about reducing teen pregnancy for decades so why aren’t they happy?!? Meanwhile, bc of the draconian abortion laws stipulating that docs save the unborn at the expense of the mothers life, regardless of viability, we’re seeing more news reports about mothers are dying of sepsis or other pregnancy related complications. Since medical abortions weren’t considered in these laws, sometimes both mothers and their fetuses have died/are dying. So women who wanted to have a child and/or more children, are dying – not bc of their personal decision/choice based on medical advice, but bc the govt and state made legal mandates that supersede the Hippocratic Oath. These women have to seek care in a Democrat state if they want to live (assuming that urgency and money aren’t prohibitive). And the Repubs do not care about these babies once they are born, as proven by their deep cuts to food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid since the Felon’s return.
I’ve said for years that for Republicans life begins at conception and ends at birth. This aspect of their misogyny didn’t begin with Trump.
Hmmm. Childcare costs are astronomical, the cost of college is insane….this war with Iran has spiked gas prices, and food prices are out of control. Not to mention the Republicans are making healthcare more expensive. Oh, and they hate family leave. Who can afford to have kids? I always thought I’d have 2-3 kids, but I have one because I can’t afford another on my teacher salary. Until they do something about the cost of living, nobody will be having multiple babies.
Those they consider “the right people” will. They only want “the right people” to vote as well.
The average age of a first time home owner is 40 and they somehow think this is conducive to having a large family.
Erika Kirk just told graduates at commencement to marry young and have more kids than they can afford.
They want impoverished masses of people. They make good soldiers and factory workers.
She was well into her 30s before she married if I recall correctly.
Susan Faludi’s book Backlash, which I read about 20 years ago, is packed with stories of women on the far right with thriving careers and public personas telling other women their only value is having babies. Some people only know how to climb to the top by stepping on others.
To be honest, as much as I loathe this administration, the problems with rural maternal health existed long before Roe v Wade was gutted for a variety of reasons (one being that rural hospitals dont pay as well and Ob-gyns have a ton of student loans since our higher education is so insanely expensive.) A good friend of mine actually works in just this area (rural maternal health) for CMS and she’s been talking about the various issues for years and years, long before Roe v Wade was overturned. But it did make things worse for maternal health in the red states (but RvW being overturned doesn’t explain why doctors are leaving rural hospitals in Maryland for example.) like many things the Trump administrations have done, his supporters suffer more and they don’t seem to connect the dots enough to care.
Now that said – the idea of “trump babies” is disgusting.
And I’m pretty sure Trump has cancer of some sort. I was reading a thing yesterday on Threads with a doctor pointing out all the signs and it seemed to fit.
Yes, one of my aunts was a visiting nurse in the West Virginia mountains – for years, that service was the only health care in the area.
Obama had so many programs working together to increase doctors in underserved areas
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/406/attract-more-doctors-to-rural-areas/article/1617/
From politico:
“ The Obama administration significantly boosted support for the National Health Service Corps, which offers scholarships and loan repayment to doctors in exchange for working in underserved areas — including an extra $300 million from the stimulus.
That two-year funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act roughly doubled the number of doctors in the loan repayment program to 4,544, more than 40 percent of whom serve in rural areas, according to a study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
In August 2011, the administration expanded eligibility for the loan repayment program to “critical access hospitals,” which have 25 beds or fewer.
Meanwhile, the administration has promoted residency opportunities in rural areas, reallocating residency slots, investing in the Rural Training Track program, and spending $230 million on a five-year initiative to put more primary care residents in community settings, including rural areas.
Once primary care physicians train in rural areas, the goal is to keep them there.
A 10 percent increase in Medicare payment rates for primary care physicians through 2016 was intended to help, though some physicians say the bonuses aren’t big enough to have much impact — and need to be made permanent.
These steps aren’t enough to solve rural workforce shortages, but they do “attract more doctors to rural areas.” We rate this Promise Kept.”
@tiffany yes Obamas initiatives helped. They didn’t solve the problem though. Especially because PCPs are very different from OBs.
The Obama programs didn’t exist long enough/get funding to achieve their full potential. I thought they were a great starting point. I agree OBs are different from PCP, but they also need open hospitals to provide care. Part of the OB/GYN shortage in rural areas is tied to hospital closures, so I saw his efforts as addressing a root cause.
To be clear, I fully support anything and everything that will bring greater access to healthcare to women and children, and addresses the horrific maternal mortality rate (especially for Black women). I also think access to care after birth (mental health too!) is very important.
First: infant mortality and maternal death during childbirth are major problems in the USA that do need to be addressed
Second: we do not need to have more babies, just make sure those being born are healthy.
Third: these creeps need to learn to mind their own crotches
Flames at the side of my face, as they say.
At both the big picture and microscopic view, this problem is the result of GOP policies. They do not support programs, laws, rights that allow women to safely have children. They prevent women from getting healthcare when they’re interested in having children. They create stifling job markets that don’t help women afford children/childcare/medical care. They don’t support paid leave. Their Medicaid legislation directly harms the hospitals that are now closing. Their abortion policies at the state/federal level all make it risky for a woman to get pregnant. Once that child is born, they do not want to provide any kind of assistance, financial, mental health, childcare, education for that child or mother.
The lack of acknowledgment that their policies and their party have greatly contributed to all of this is so enraging.
All of this👆💯!
“Trump Baby” sounds like a custom cocktail Prince William & wife would serve at a special party honoring that special admirer of hers. It would include a very very very oversized gold umbrella straw.
Who is measuring the sperm counts of young men?
Does RFK Jr. think the answer lies in the penises of dead raccoons? Is that why he cut one off and took it home?
How is this reality?????
That’s fewer babies than WHO wants to have??? Not the women. Clearly.
They are only concerned about more white babies.
Eh, they might be okay with a Wasian baby if the dad is white. Anything else though is completely unacceptable, according to them.
These people are beyond creepy.
We need white babies, pronto!
But forget about any meaningful help like free dayfree, free healthcare , etc etc
His data is also utterly skewed. If you account for the full reproductive life of women, so measuring basically from first period to menopause, the fertility rate of women remains steady, at something like 2.1 -https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/is-the-us-birth-rate-declining .
In reality, what the data is showing is that the teen birth rate is declining and women are waiting until they’re older and more mentally and financially stable to have children. Ten years ago, this would have been cause to celebrate. It is unsurprising, however, that the party run by pedophiles is beyond themselves that young women have realized they don’t want to have sex with them. Every day we hit a new low, and yet, honestly, this is all probably just a distraction from some even more horrific thing they don’t want us to realize they’re doing.
I shouldn’t have read this while eating lunch….Almost hurled when I saw “Trump Babies”…..After typing this I am definitely going to hurl….
This is straight up abso-f**king-lutely terrifying to read. Especially as a woman. I’m still so angry at two older males in my life who are (were) intelligent who, pre the 2016 election, were unfazed by Dump. “It’ll be okay”, “he’s a harmless barroom”. As a woman I was deeply alarmed back then and knew how absolutely disgusting and awful this man was and how damaging he had the potential to be in such a position of power.
The US infant and maternal mortality rate, particularly for Black mums and babies, is an utter disgrace, much higher than other developed countries. If republicans were in fact pro-life rather than anti-women’s choice, there would be a serious multi-pronged plan to tackle it. And what sort of incentive can lure young doctors into a state where not only is abortion banned but miscarriage is treated as a crime scene. Doctors want to develop the full range of clinical skills in their specialty, not be forbidden on pain of imprisonment from being given comprehensive opportunities. The trump ‘father of fertility’ and ‘trump babies’ coming from an adjudicated assaulter on tape bragging about assaulting women gives me, as they say in Scotland, the dry boaks.
The XYs who voted MAGA or WN are in for a rude awakening.
When they say “underbabied” they mean they are coming for W-XYs
This is what “Leon” and other w-supremacist/w- Nationalist have been screeching.
And in a government document they are classifying FIFTEEN YEAR OLD w-XYs as WOMEN . Yes I am shouting.
The cuts to Medicaid also closed a lot of rural hospitals. And this Telehealth they’re talking about is AI Telehealth–they truly are trying to kill us all.