Trump says RFK Jr. can “pretty much do whatever he wants” on public health in a second term.

From mass deportations to the complete erosion of reproductive rights, there are dozens of reasons to be very afraid Donald Trump Return to the White House. Can you add one more to the list? The fact that he will apparently be a notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Power over the health of the nation.

Speaking to reporters on Election Day, Trump said of the former third-party candidate: “Let me tell you, he’s a great guy, RFK. In my opinion he will pretty much do whatever he wants. He wants health for women, men and children. I agree with a lot of things he says.”

Trump’s comments come days after Kennedy said during a livestream that Trump had promised to give him “control” of several federal health agencies in a second term, telling viewers: “The key I think President Trump promised.” has – is control of the public health agencies, the HHS and its sub-agencies – CDC, FDA, NIH and several others – and then also the USDA, which, as you know, is the key to America’s health. Because we have to say goodbye to seed oils, and we have to say goodbye to pesticide-intensive agriculture.”

If you’re unfamiliar with Kennedy’s work on health, you may not understand why putting him in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services would probably be one of the scariest things Trump has ever done. Among other things, Kennedy is one of the world’s biggest anti-vaxxers and has been accused of stoking fears about vaccines in the run-up to a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people; To that end, he once suggested that Anne Frank, the Holocaust celebrity, had it easy compared to what anti-vaxxers endured. Kennedy has also pointed out more than once that chemicals in the environment can turn children gay and transgender; insanely claims that HIV does not cause AIDS; and stated last year: “COVID-19 aims to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

Aside from his dangerous public health misinformation, Kennedy had also admitted to staging an elaborate bear-killing scene in Central Park because he didn’t have time to eat the bear’s meat, and said in a 2012 divorce statement that a worm My brain “got in,” I ate part of it and then died.”

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