I’d love nothing more than to have complete faith in our health institutions again. I think most Americans feel the same. But the sad truth is, the COVID pandemic shattered whatever trust we had left.
We watched our so-called experts contradict themselves, suppress dissent, issue recommendations that had no basis in science, and so on. What we learned was sobering: our health institutions aren’t immune to the same corruption, power games, and political agendas that infect every other corner of government.
If we were fed lies about COVID, face masks, social distancing, therapeutics, and the COVID vaccines, if dissenting voices were smeared and silenced, then what else are we being lied to about? That chilling question has permanently damaged public confidence, and something obviously has to change.
That’s why President Trump made Robert F. Kennedy Jr. our Health and Human Services Secretary. Kennedy has been fearless in saying out loud what millions of Americans already believe: we can’t allow the pharmaceutical industry and government bureaucrats to dictate our health policy without accountability.
He’s taking a sledgehammer to the status quo, which explains why the establishment is circling the wagons, demanding his resignation. Senate Democrats went after him aggressively last week during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. More are calling him to resign, as are members of the Kennedy family. They’re all terrified of what his crusade means for the cozy corruption they’ve grown comfortable with.
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But Kennedy is not backing down, and Donald Trump is standing firmly behind him. Over the weekend, Trump responded directly to critics while en route to the U.S. Open Final. “Well, he’s a different kind of a guy. He’s got a lot of good ideas, but he’s also got a lot of ideas,” Trump said. And then came a remark that you’d never hear from a typical politician: Trump tied Kennedy’s unconventional approach to tackling issues like autism and chronic disease. “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.”
.@POTUS on @SecKennedy: "He's got a lot of ideas. Normally, they don't have any ideas and that's why we have problems... 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." pic.twitter.com/l1eeqyjY78
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 7, 2025
This is why the attacks from the left and the media fall so flat. They call Kennedy “foolish” and “unqualified,” but what they really mean is that he threatens the system they’ve built—a system designed to enrich pharmaceutical companies, keep regulators on a leash, and punish independent thought. Kennedy is a skeptic of the medical establishment, and frankly, that’s exactly what we need.
Critics tried to paint Kennedy’s decision to revoke the emergency use authorizations for the COVID vaccines as reckless. But he hasn’t banned access. He’s simply said that, from now on, we’re going to have real standards, real placebo-controlled trials, and an end to the rubber-stamping of pharmaceutical companies’ products. Vaccines remain available to anyone who wants them—with physician consultation—but they will no longer be pushed under emergency rules that bypass critical safeguards. That’s called restoring credibility. That’s the kind of reform that rebuilds trust.
