Bill Maher says 'my head's not exploding' over Trump picking RFK Jr. for HHS: 'We do need shaking up'

"Real Time" big Bill Maher appeared open-minded astir President-elect Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services. 

Maher kicked disconnected his interrogation with doc and writer Dr. Casey Means astir however radical person been "freaking" astir Trump tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to pb national wellness policies. 

"Well, the strategy arsenic it is, the mode we bash health, is already precise f---ed," Maher said Friday night. "So possibly he'll marque it worse. But, like, my caput is not exploding astir it."

Means told Maher that she believed Election Day showed that the American radical privation to code the "chronic illness epidemic" and that RFK Jr. was idiosyncratic consenting to instrumentality it on. 

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"Real Time" big Bill Maher said his caput isn't "exploding" implicit Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being tapped by President-elect Trump to pb HHS. (Screenshot/HBO)

The HBO prima pointed to Kennedy's caller comments insisting helium wouldn't prohibition vaccines.

"If you privation them, you person them. It's not gonna beryllium mandated. I deliberation that's what a batch of radical objected to before," Maher said. "I mean, I've said it galore times. There are immoderate pathogens that, if they were going around, I would combat you for the vaccine. And determination are others that, you know, I conscionable didn't want, similar the 1 we conscionable had."

Means sounded the alarm connected however the U.S. is "the sickest of the apical 11 high-income countries successful the world" and however beingness expectancy for an American antheral is astatine 73, which she noted was 10 years little than Japan and Switzerland. 

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"This is thing we should each beryllium outraged about," Means told Maher. "And lone 1 enactment successful our predetermination rhythm this twelvemonth was talking astir chronic illness. The words ‘chronic illness,’ arsenic acold arsenic I know, ne'er came retired of the Harris campaign's mouth. And I deliberation that was a existent misstep due to the fact that Americans are, I think, bushed of being gaslit astir the information that there's not a occupation close now."

"And Trump has asked RFK to bash 3 elemental things. He's asked to get the corruption retired of the US wellness agencies, nutrient uncompromised, evidence-based probe for our wellness guidelines, and reverse the trends of the chronic illness epidemic successful 2 years for children and adults truthful that we tin amusement up for our 250th day of America stronger than ever. That sounds beauteous bully to me," she added. 

Former statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile President Donald Trump, shingle hands during a run rally successful Glendale, Ariz., connected Aug. 23. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images))

Maher, however, seemed much skeptical astir Trump sticking to his run promises. 

"Trust me, the archetypal clip Trump gets a telephone from immoderate large mucky muck astatine the pharmaceutical manufacture and says, 'Hey, you're f---ing with my profits, Trump could easy reverse each of this," Maher said. 

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Maher acknowledged Robert F. Kennedy has "said brainsick s---" but that "we bash request shaking up." (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Means remained optimistic, suggesting the president-elect "has been shown immoderate airy from RFK astir the monumental quality of the American healthcare epidemic, and it has struck a chord with him."

"If you privation to accidental he's a brainsick person- helium surely said immoderate brainsick s---. He surely said immoderate brainsick s---, but we bash request shaking up," Maher aboriginal said. 

Kennedy endorsed Trump aft suspending his ain statesmanlike campaign, becoming 1 of Trump's astir salient surrogates and incorporating the "MAHA" (Make America Healthy Again) question into his closing statement to voters.