He’s going to make America wholesome once more — proper after this combo meal.
Former presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was noticed on Trump Power One sheepishly posing with a McDonald’s Large Mac and a Coca-Cola.
The meals selection — a favourite of President-elect Donald Trump — is seemingly at odds with RFK Jr.’s campaign to overtake the US meals system and beef up public well being.
Kennedy, 70, was seated subsequent to a smiling group comprised of President-elect Donald Trump, tech guru Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. who regarded delighted with their quick meals on board Trump’s Boeing 757 throughout a visit to UFC 309 at Madison Sq. Backyard Saturday.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who wasn’t sitting on the desk with a McDonald’s meal managed to slide into the image as effectively.
“Marketing campaign meals is all the time dangerous, however the meals that goes onto that airplane is, like, simply poison,” Kennedy beforehand advised podcaster Joe Polish final week. “You will have a selection between — you don’t have the selection, you’re both given KFC or Large Macs.”
“That’s while you’re fortunate, after which the remainder of the stuff I take into account sort of inedible.”
Kennedy additional groused that “the stuff that [Trump] eats is actually, like, dangerous.”
Trump, 78, prompted a stir final week by asserting Kennedy as his decide to helm the Division of Well being and Human Providers, fulfilling his promise to let the onetime presidential hopeful “go wild” on public well being.
Kennedy has lengthy crusaded towards quite a lot of preservatives and likewise industrial chemical compounds which might be put into US meals, calling for a nationwide crackdown.
Kennedy railed towards authorities restrictions on uncooked milk, psychedelics, peptides, stem cells and extra.
He has additionally ignited considerations amongst public well being specialists by expressing considerations in regards to the security practices in vaccine and drug growth, demanding extra transparency.
Regardless of worry amongst his critics, Kennedy was adamant that he wouldn’t “take away anyone’s vaccines.”
Shortly after Trump’s Nov. 5 victory, Kennedy teased plans for the White Home to advise water suppliers towards including fluoride to public water.
The photograph of Kennedy subsequent to a McDonald’s meal was posted on social media by a number of Trump confidants, together with marketing campaign deputy director of communications Margo Martin and Trump Jr.
Kennedy ran for president as an impartial earlier than dropping out of the race in August and backing Trump, who publicly embraced his name for reforming public well being insurance policies.
“The Security and Well being of all Individuals is an important function of any Administration, and HHS will play a giant function in serving to make sure that all people might be shielded from dangerous chemical compounds, pollution, pesticides, pharmaceutical merchandise, and meals components which have contributed to the overwhelming Well being Disaster on this Nation,” Trump stated in a social media put up asserting Kennedy as his HHS Secretary decide.
“Kennedy will restore these Businesses to the traditions of Gold Commonplace Scientific Analysis, and beacons of Transparency, to finish the Persistent Illness epidemic, and to Make America Nice and Wholesome Once more!”
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