Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, is pictured dining at McDonald’s with his future boss as he promised to “make America healthy again.”
Kennedy flew with Trump on his plane Saturday to an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout in New York with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Republican’s eldest son Donald Jr.
A photo posted online Sunday by Donald Jr. shows four people sitting in front of a tray of McDonald’s food, which he jokingly captioned: “Make America Healthy Again Starting Tomorrow.”
The scion of a famous Democratic political family, Trump and Kennedy campaigned together ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, promising to tackle processed food among other priorities.
Announcing Kennedy’s nomination on Thursday, Trump said that “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and pharmaceutical companies.”
Social media commentators noted that Kennedy appeared to be the least enthusiastic of the diners as he held the open burger box, fries and a bottle of Coca-Cola in front of him.
The 70-year-old, a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine campaigner, has long argued that the United States needs to curb its obesity epidemic by reducing the high levels of sugar, fat and high-additive processed food in the national diet. Needed.
In a podcast posted last week, he was sharply critical of Trump’s diet, saying, “The stuff he eats is really bad.”
“Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes on (Trump’s) plane is absolutely poison,” he told the Joe Polish Podcast. “You don’t have a choice, you’ll either be given a KFC or a Big Mac.”
Trump has never hidden his love for fast food and Diet Coke, even stopping briefly to work at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania during his campaign in October.
“I love salt!” He told the workers there.
Kennedy will need confirmation by the Senate to take his job as Secretary of Health, with some senior Republicans expressing concern about his suitability for the position.
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