RFK Jr. Just Admitted He's Not Very Good At His Job
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“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy said during a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to do something extraordinary for a politician on Wednesday: He admitted he’s not the best person for his job.
The controversial Health and Human Services secretary made his seeming confession of incompetence while testifying before a House subcommittee.
Wisconsin Democrat Rep. Mark Pocan asked RFK Jr., a notorious anti-vaxxer, about whether he’d consider vaccinating his kids if they were still young against a number of preventable diseases, such as measles, chicken pox and polio.
Kennedy said he’d consider the measles vaccine but otherwise avoided directly answering the question, saying he “didn’t want to give advice,” apparently unaware that one of the responsibilities of cabinet secretaries is to offer information, recommendations and opinions based on their department’s expertise.
Instead, he offered a baffling quote, the kind that inspires memes and becomes infamous.
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The vice president claimed to know nothing about the musical he was going to see.
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The companies said Midjourney’s "bootlegging business model" is an attack on "the hard-working creative community that brings the magic of movies to life."
"Love it. One of my favorites," the president said of the musical centered around a political uprising.
The president alleged that he was deemed to be "brilliant at music" after his parents took him for an aptitude test in his early days.
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The president said states need to bear the costs of their own recovery and if a state's governor can't do so, "then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”
Some ducked into elevators. Some stared into space. “I answered the question I wanted to answer!” Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped.
The board members say Trump denied Fulbright awards to several people they had selected for the 2025-2026 academic year.
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