Sarah Palin made it quite clear who she wants to serve as Donald Trump‘s health secretary, showcasing a muscle-laden photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on her Instagram story.
Palin, a conservative and Trump ally, posted the photo of Kennedy alongside a picture of Rachel Levine, the first transgender Assistant Secretary for Health.
The photo was captioned ‘#winning’ alongside a photo of Trump smiling and was set to the classic jock jam ‘Tag Team (Whoop There it Is)’ with a graphic noting ‘Department of Health 2021’ vs. ‘Department of Health 2025.’
The Trump campaign has shut down claims that Kennedy would be appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services, a role needing the approval of the Senate.
But it is still possible he could be appointed as a senior White House health advisor, pushing his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ agenda.
Sarah Palin made it quite clear who she wants to serve as Donald Trump ‘s health secretary, showcasing a muscle-laden photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on her Instagram story
Palin, a conservative and Trump ally, posted the photo of Kennedy alongside a picture of Rachel Levine, the first transgender Assistant Secretary for Health
Kennedy would not be replacing Levine, the first transgender person ever confirmed by the Senate, as she is Assistant Secretary for Health.
The Secretary of Health under Joe Biden has been Xavier Becerra, a former Congressman.
Trump, who won the contest against Vice President Kamala Harris, said last month that if elected, he would let Robert F Kennedy Jr play a ‘big role’ in health in his administration and allow him to ‘go wild.’
The vaccine skeptic and former environmental lawyer has spoken about cutting funding and resources to the FDA and voiced support for unproven medical treatments as part of his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ campaign.
Some experts say his desire to remove chemicals and harmful additives from food could have a positive impact on America’s health.
But there are fears his lack of scientific or health policy training, as well as his tendency to promote debunked conspiracy theories like vaccines cause autism, make him ill-suited for the role.
Among his unfounded beliefs, Mr Kennedy has declared WiFi causes cancer, chemicals in water turn children transgender, AIDS is not caused by HIV, Covid was engineered to be ‘ethnically targeted‘ and there is ‘no vaccine is safe.’
Revealing the potential appointment on X, RFK Jr said: ‘He’s asked me to clean up the corruption, number one.
President-elect Donald Trump is pictured above with Robert F Kennedy Jr at a rally in Arizona in August. The President elect has promised to give him a ‘big role’ in the new administration
‘Number two, end the conflicts of interest, return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold standard, empirically based, evidence-based science, evidence-based medicine, and to end the chronic disease epidemic in this country.’
Trump has said about Mr Kennedy: ‘He’s going to have a big role in health care, a very big role. He knows it better than anybody.’
The President-elect added: ‘He has some views I happen to agree with strongly and have for a long time.’
Trump has yet to engage in any public discussions over who will be in his cabinet.
Kamala Harris slammed the idea of appointing Mr Kennedy to a healthcare position, saying he was the ‘exact last person in America who should be setting healthcare policy for America’s families and children.’
Dr Anthony Fauci, who led America’s Covid response, also previously slammed Mr Kennedy — saying in an interview in July: ‘I don’t know what’s going on in his head, but it’s not good.’
After viewing a presentation by him, he said: ‘We were walking out of the room at the [National Institutes of Health], I went over to and I said, ‘Bobby, I believe you care about children, and you care that you don’t want to hurt them.
»But you got to realize that from a scientific standpoint, what you’re saying does not make sense.»
