YOU’VE GOT MAIL
Just one month after nine former C.D.C. directors slammed R.F.K. Jr. in a New York Times op-ed, six former U.S. surgeon generals have issued a strongly worded letter of their own in The Washington Post. The authors—including Jerome Adams, the surgeon general during Trump’s first term, and Richard Carmona, who served under George W. Bush—claimed they could no longer ignore the “profound, immediate and unprecedented threat” of the health secretary’s policies, which they claim are “endangering the health of the nation.” Carmona, in a separate statement, advised Americans to “disregard” what R.F.K. Jr. says and consult their doctors instead. R.F.K. Jr. himself might agree with that advice. After all, he did try to warn Congress back in May: “People shouldn’t take medical advice from me.”
A CUT ABOVE THE REST
As Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff secured the long-awaited Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Egypt, one member of the Orange Operation left at home made sure to share his own historic and equally important update. “There are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism,” R.F.K. Jr. announced at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. The reason? Oh, here we go again. “It’s highly likely because they were given Tylenol.” He then went on to accuse a pregnant woman “with a baby in her placenta” (yep, you read that right) of “gobbling Tylenol” just to spite Trump.
