NY Post on Trump cabinet pick: ‘Head-scratching spaghetti of … warped conspiracy theories’

The New York Post editorial board is the latest to roast President-elect Donald Trump’s latest Cabinet pick on Thursday.
Trump revealed Thursday that he plans to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as to lead the Health and Human Services Department in his second administration. The move was met with swift backlash from Democrats, health experts and some conservatives who have concerns about Kennedy’s past false claims on vaccines, medical conditions and more.
The New York Post editorial board—which endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential race—also panned the choice to nominate Kennedy for the position in an opinion piece published Thursday. The board wrote that Kennedy breaks the “overriding rule” of medicine to “do no harm.”
The board noted that it sat down with Kennedy in May 2023 to discuss his then-challenge to President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.
“As we noted then, he’s an independent thinker who sees through a lot of bull, an incisive critic of some of Biden’s worst policies, who saw that ‘the Democratic Party lost its way most acutely in reaction to’ Donald Trump’s first election,” the board wrote.
“But the insights we were impressed with had nothing to do with health,” the board continued. “When it came to that topic his views were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.”
Kennedy has a longstanding history of spreading debunked claims about vaccines, medical conditions and medications. He has falsely claimed that vaccines cause autism, that 5G high-speed wireless network service can control people’s behavior, and COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, among other conspiracy theories.
The Post went on to write that after its interview with Kennedy, they believed he was “nuts on a lot of fronts.”
“A radical, prolonged and confused transition ordered by a guy like RFK Jr., who will use his high office to spout his controversial beliefs, leaves a lot of room for things to go wrong — and for people to wind up harmed or even dead,” the board wrote.
The board then referenced Kennedy’s claims that doctors found a “dead worm” in his brain.
“Donald Trump won on promises to fix the economy, the border and soaring global disorder; his team needs to focus on delivering change on those fronts — not spend energy either having to defend crackpot theories or trying to control RFK Jr.’s mouth,” the board wrote.
“We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there’s been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago,” the board concluded.
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