R.F.K. JR.’S DISOWNMENT
R.F.K. Jr.’s family has a few endearing pet names for him. Growing up, most of the Kennedy clan simply called him “Bobby.” Lately, though, they’ve gotten more creative. His nephew Jack Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy, called him a “Russian spy.” Which we think is so Bolshe-chic! His other nephew Joe Kennedy III (son of R.F.K.’s brother Joseph Kennedy II) branded him a “threat to the health of the well-being of every American.” But, comrades, it doesn’t stop there. His younger sister Kerry recently christened him “incompetent and misguided” and then followed up with a demand for his immediate resignation—a shot fired in the family’s ongoing cold war. Not that anyone’s asking, but we at AIR MAIL call him “Connor Roy.”
R.F.K. JR.’s firing
Adding to the long list of people who want R.F.K. Jr. canned is Trump’s former surgeon general Jerome Adams. In a recent CNN interview, Adams urged the president to fire Kennedy for limiting access to vaccines, especially for the coronavirus. “He’s putting us at risk,” Adams warned, adding that Trump should act “for the sake of the nation.” A White House insider says Trump watched the entire segment on TV. Hardly shocking, since the president himself has admitted to clocking four to eight hours of television a day. The first hour, our source notes, is devoted to reruns of The Apprentice. The rest he splits between news and soap operas—CNN serving as the former; Fox News, the latter.
MAHA’S PLAN FOR KIDS
A new report from the MAHA Commission this week listed 128 recommendations for improving children’s health in America, which R.F.K. Jr. is calling “historic” and “unprecedented” and medical experts are calling “very uneven” and “poorly conceived.” While the list includes his usual threats of crippling childhood vaccines (universally proven to save lives) and removing fluoride from the drinking water (reduces tooth decay in children by 25 percent), there is little mention of combating agricultural pesticides in food, a topic near and dear to the core MAHA granola groupies and a cornerstone of R.F.K. Jr.’s campaign. Reneging on promises to your base—what could go wrong? (Actually, he should ask his boss how releasing the Epstein files is going.)
BIRTH-CONTROL DESTRUCTION
The Trump administration is planning to destroy $10 million worth of U.S.A.I.D. birth-control pills and contraceptives this week, which had been stored in a warehouse in Belgium ever since Trump took a hatchet to the organization earlier this year, despite offers from the Gates Foundation and several other international charities to purchase the supplies. A spokesperson for U.S.A.I.D. claimed on Thursday that they had already been incinerated, but Belgian authorities who visited the warehouse on Friday found the stockpile untouched. Belgian law prohibits the incineration of usable medical products, which throws a welcome wrench in the federal government’s hopelessly ill-conceived plan. If authorized, the destruction itself will reportedly cost $167,000, making the total loss to the American taxpayer a whopping $10,167,000. So much for the art of the deal.
Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz are Junior Editors at Air Mail
