Key Takeaways:
- Outsider Momentum: Trump sees value in Kennedy’s unconventional approach, praising him for offering “a lot of good ideas” that career politicians lack.
- Challenging Big Pharma: Kennedy’s push for transparency, placebo-controlled trials, and limits on emergency authorizations signals a serious challenge to entrenched pharmaceutical interests.
- Establishment Pushback: From Elizabeth Warren to Chris Christie, political insiders are circling the wagons—proof that Kennedy’s reforms and Trump’s support are shaking up the status quo.
President Donald Trump isn’t buying the political establishment’s latest hit job on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As career politicians lined up to smear Kennedy, Trump reminded America why voters elected an outsider in the first place: results come from fresh ideas, not stale bureaucracy.
“Well, he’s a different kind of a guy,” Trump told reporters on Sunday before departing for the U.S. Open final. “He’s got a lot of good ideas, but he’s got a lot of ideas. You know, normally, they don’t have any ideas, and that’s why we have problems with autism and so many other things, because we’re coming up with the answers for autism. You watch.”
Trump praised Kennedy’s willingness to challenge sacred cows, adding, “We’re coming up with the answers for other things that normal people, regular people, easy to get along with people, wouldn’t be able to do. He’s got a lot of ideas, and so do I, and we’re going to clean it up.”
Kennedy has taken bold steps since joining the Trump administration. Last month, he rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID vaccines, keeping them available only for those who want them in consultation with their doctors. He also demanded drug companies conduct placebo-controlled trials—hardly the language Big Pharma wants to hear.
That independence was on full display during Senate testimony, where Kennedy sparred with Sens. Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren. In a fiery exchange, he blasted Warren for her $855,000 in pharmaceutical donations, saying: “I never promised that I was going to recommend products for which there is no indication.”
Establishment figures like Warren and Chris Christie may call him “unqualified,” but the truth is clear: Kennedy is rattling cages in Washington. And Trump knows that’s exactly what America needs.