President-elect Donald Trump introduced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choose to go the Division of Well being and Human Companies Thursday by way of his Reality Social account.
“Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!” Trump stated concerning the former Impartial presidential candidate, who not too long ago instructed advertising and marketing business podcaster Joe Polish that Trump’s eating regimen “is really, like, bad” and characterised plenty of the meals Trump eats as “poison.”
None of that appears to matter to Trump, who selected the mind worm sufferer, whale decapitator, and serial adulterer to guide public well being. Kennedy’s historical past of pushing pseudoscience and debunked claims about vaccines is lengthy and distressing, and his concepts to “Make America Healthy Again” are doubtful at greatest.
Kennedy wrote in a Nov. 2 put up on X that on inauguration day, the “Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.” Most specialists agree that including fluoride to water helps scale back childhood cavities and tooth infections in younger youngsters. Kennedy’s perception that fluoridation has led to worse public well being outcomes just isn’t supported by many of the analysis that has been performed.
The notorious “vaccine skeptic” has vaguely promised to “examine” vaccine analysis as soon as he’s ready of energy. Kennedy and the anti-vaxxer motion’s unwillingness to consider even their very own analysis debunking myths about vaccines inflicting autism doesn’t construct a lot confidence that he’ll do something productive in that regard.
Kennedy’s one halfway-decent public well being concept is to advertise more healthy diets with much less processed meals for Individuals. The Democrat-turned-Impartial-turned-Trump toady will now be working for a similar GOP that misplaced their collective minds when former first girl Michelle Obama tried to enhance the dietary requirements of kids’s college lunches.
And contemplating that it was Trump’s first administration that rolled again Obama-era vitamin laws on college lunches, it is going to be fascinating to see if Kennedy is even allowed to carry carrots into the White Home.
The 2 males make a wierd duo—till you understand that they are each narcissistic wealthy youngsters with unhealthy concepts, underdeveloped feelings, and outsized egos.
