New York Post comes out against RFK Jr. HHS nomination

The editorial board of the New York Post is admonishing President-elect Trump over his nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the department of Health and Human Services.

The Post called Kennedy's views on health "a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines."

"He told us with full conviction that all America's chronic health problems began in one year in the 1980s when a dozen bad things happened," the Post wrote of an interview it conducted with Kennedy as he was mounting an independent presidential bid.

"Convincing to the gullible conspiracy-hungry crowd on Twitter, but not to the rest of us," the newspaper said. "In fact, we came out thinking he's nuts on a lot of fronts."

Kennedy, who dropped out of the race this summer and endorsed Trump, has drawn widespread backlash for his comments on vaccines, the coronavirus pandemic and other matters of public health.

Trump has touted Kennedy's ideas, and vowed the former Democrat will help the president "Make America Healthy Again."

The president-elect "won on promises to fix the economy, the border and soaring global disorder; his team needs to focus on delivering change on those fronts — not spend energy either having to defend crackpot theories or trying to control RFK Jr.'s mouth," the Post wrote.

"We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there's been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago," it said.