RFK Jr. Wants the Internet to Pick Trump’s Top Health and Tech Experts

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked hard to assistance re-elect Donald Trump, a antheral who volition beryllium stepping backmost into the White House connected Jan. 25, 2025. And portion we inactive don’t cognize precisely what relation Kennedy volition play erstwhile that happens, the anti-vax crusader and Trump person pledged to “Make America Healthy Again.” Kennedy has present launched a webpage to assistance solicit ideas for who to name successful important roles during Trump 2.0, including the apical spots astatine agencies similar the FDA. And it’s beauteous terrifying to look astatine who’s being suggested, fixed the utmost ideas that truthful galore of these radical hold.

Kennedy launched the effort connected his website MAHA.vote (Make American Health Again), conscionable earlier Election Day, according to wellness quality outlet STAT. The crowdsourcing task is dubbed Nominees For the People and anyone tin taxable a sanction for antithetic categories, including Technology, Health, and Housing, among galore others.

One sanction that stands retired connected the website is Dr. Simone Gold, who founded an enactment called America’s Frontline Doctors. It archetypal became known nationally erstwhile it held a property league successful Washington, D.C. during the summertime of 2020. The radical tried to importune that wellness experts were hiding a “cure” for covid-19. That cure? Hydroxychloroquine, of course—which is not a cure for covid. But that hasn’t stopped a batch of right-wingers from believing it is. Gold, it should beryllium noted, was sentenced to two months successful prison for her relation successful Trump’s insurrection astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.

Anyone tin nominate a sanction to Kennedy’s website. And the radical who look aren’t needfully adjacent alert that they’ve been nominated. The conception with nominees for Technology see a ton of names we’ve ne'er heard of, apt self-submitted. And portion we don’t uncertainty Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak would marque a bully summation to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, there’s nary grounds that helium adjacent knows he’s been nominated and small accidental privation it.

Kennedy often insists that he’s not really anti-vaccine, but helium often attacks vaccines nether the pretense that helium cares astir “safety” contempt the information that vaccines disposable connected the marketplace contiguous are harmless and effective. However, Kennedy’s ideology spans overmuch wider than that of vaccines. He wants to wholly revamp the wellness and dietary regulations successful a mode that tin lone beryllium achieved by making changes astatine respective agencies, including the USDA.

RFK Jr projected what helium describes arsenic a ‘Win-Win’ program for farmers AND consumers pic.twitter.com/kDiIVX5eAb

— KennedyForTheW (@KennedyForTheW) November 8, 2024

It’s not yet wide whether Kennedy himself volition get a relation successful Trump’s cabinet, possibly arsenic caput of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is the bureau nether which the FDA resides. But adjacent if Kennedy doesn’t instrumentality a apical spot successful a 2nd Trump presidency, it’s beauteous wide he’s going to power argumentation arsenic a thank-you from Trump himself for his enactment getting the run implicit the decorativeness line.

Things are astir to get truly weird aft Trump takes bureau again. And it’s a harmless stake we can’t adjacent fathom conscionable however weird it volition get.