Trump Picks RFK Jr. To Head Health And Human Services

The measles virus is super excited right now because Donald Trump just did the unthinkable — he followed through on nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Department of Health and Human Services. Sure, one would have to have brain worms to think that RFK Jr. is remotely appropriate for the position. But Trump isn’t exactly the sharpest crayon in a box of mixed metaphors.

Trump announced the move on Twitter, where he — the guy who constantly spread misinformation during COVID — said, “Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health.” The solution is apparently Kennedy, who he says will “Make America Great and Healthy Again,” whatever that means.

It’s unclear at this point what RFK Jr. will do as the head of HHS (assuming he is confirmed). We just know what he has done. For instance, RFK has repeatedly lied about vaccines so much that he tanked the vaccination rate in a country during a measles outbreak and caused the deaths of a whole lot of innocent people.

RFK, Mass Murderer

Trump and RFK have both assured Americans that no one intends to take vaccines away, but RFK has literally killed people with his false claims about vaccine safety, as Mother Jones notes:

Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit anti-vax outfit he led until becoming a presidential candidate, had helped spread misinformation that contributed to the decline in measles vaccination that preceded the lethal eruption. And during his trip to Samoa, Kennedy had publicly supported leading vaccination opponents there, lending credibility to anti-vaxxers who were succeeding in increasing vaccine hesitation among Samoans. Moreover, in early 2021, Kennedy, in a little-noticed blog post, hailed one of those vaccination foes as a “hero.”

Kennedy’s propaganda caused the vaccine program to be put on hold, reducing the vaccination rate in Samoa from 60-to-70 percent to just 31 percent. He claimed the vaccine was unsafe because of an issue with the vaccine. In reality, two American nurses had mixed up the MMR vaccine with muscle relaxant and killed two children. Nevertheless, Kennedy latched on to the opportunity to peddle anti-vaccine lies. Those lies killed 83 people and sickened more than 5,700. Kennedy has also called the COVID-19 vaccine, which has saved countless lives, “the deadliest vaccine ever made.”

 “I’m aware there was a measles outbreak,” Kennedy says in a 2023 documentary when asked about his murder spree. “I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa. I never told anybody not to vaccinate. I didn’t go there with any reason to do with that.”

What The Future Holds

Trump on RFK Jr: "He's gonna do pretty much what he wants as far as I'm concerned. He wants health for women." pic.twitter.com/Vf0Um94EB0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 5, 2024

Trump says he plans to allow RFK to do “whatever he wants” with women’s health, which is terrifying when put into perspective. Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide after reading her husband’s journal and discovering that he not only uses and discards women but that he did it behind her back. RFK Jr. will do the same not just to women, but to all of us.

Trump’s cabinet picks have been questionable at best. He has selected underage sex trafficker and E.D. medication-snorter Matt Gaetz as Attorney General, walking national security threat Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, and a Fox News host who thinks women are too weak to serve in combat as Defense Secretary. We need to somehow show MAGA that the emperor is not exactly wearing any clothes because we are all f*cked if he is allowed to assume office again.