Trump’s wacky health secretary has shared the shocking reason he’s ‘not scared of a germ’, leaving experts even more convinced that he’s in the wrong job…
Robert F Kennedy Jr has put the well-being of his critics at risk yet again. After giving them heart attacks with his views on vaccines, the US Health Secretary has now revealed why he’s “not afraid of a germ”.
The 72-year-old told “This Past Weekend with Theo Von” that he lost his fear because he “used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats”.
RFK Jr‘s latest bombshell triggered an avalanche of snarky comments on X. “America’s best hope is that Trump is taking all medical advice from Robert Kennedy Jr,” wrote one poster. But the health secretary also won praise for sharing his battle with addiction.
RFK Jr became health secretary after standing down as a presidential candidate, bringing over his votes to help Trump clinch his landslide win.
But the member of the famous Kennedy family continues to startle the medical world with his nutty views. He has linked vaccines to autism and called COVID jabs the “deadliest vaccines ever made”. He suggested COVID-19 was a bioweapon aimed at Caucasians and black people.
As well as opposing fluoride in water, he has questioned whether HIV causes AIDS. He links mass shootings to Prozac and suggests 5G networks “harvest our data and control our behaviour” and Wi-Fi causes cancer.
But RFK’s toilet seat revelation won praise from his supporters for his candour on his struggle with addiction. The health secretary turned to drugs after his father, Robert F Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968. His uncle, President John F Kennedy, was killed in 1963.
Kennedy told podcast host Shawn Ryan in 2024 that heroin got him through school. “I did very, very poorly in school, until I started doing narcotics,” he said. “I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly, I could sit still, and I could read.”
Speaking about his addiction, he told podcaster Theo Von on Thursday: “I know this disease will kill me. Like, if I don’t, if I don’t treat it, which means for me going to meetings every day. It’s just bad for my life.”
Protect Our Care, a non-profit fighting for affordable healthcare, called on RFK Jr to step down after the interview.
The group described him as “the most dangerous, in over his head, ill-suited person ever to lead such an important federal agency that has life-and-death power”. Brad Woodhouse, its president, simply wrote: “Resign.”
A critic on X blasted: “MAGA would literally listen to a dude who snorts coke of a toilet seat than actual scientist.” Another wrote: “I love that America has its health policy set by a guy who snorted cocaine off of toilet seats.”
But RFK’s supporters claimed his addiction and 43 years of recovery bring wisdom: “Liberals could stand to take his advice. He has done more in his life than they could even fathom.”
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