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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