DONALD Trump has picked the Kennedy dynasty's achromatic sheep to beryllium his wellness chief.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) has a bizarre backstory that includes a high-profile emotion affair with a newsman and having a worm wrong his brain.
After a failed 2024 statesmanlike run, the 70-year-old endorsed Trump and has present been named arsenic his nominee to tally the Health and Human Services Department.
The biology lawyer has immoderate wacky beliefs, including being sceptical of vaccines and pushing conspiracy theories.
RFK is the lad of Robert Kennedy - the younger member to President JFK who served arsenic his Attorney General and a Senator for New York.
Robert Kennedy was assassinated successful 1968 portion moving for president - with lad RFK Jr conscionable 14 years old.
Some 55 years later, RFK Jr picked up the family's mantle and ran for president himself with an extracurricular accidental arsenic an Independent.
His run ne'er earnestly challenged the 2 established parties, but helium managed to canvass astatine 19 per cent erstwhile helium launched.
The run was a chaotic ride, with RFK Jr confessing to bizarre behaviour that nary 1 would expect from a statesmanlike candidate.
In March, helium revealed that doctors recovered helium had a worm successful his encephalon and helium apt suffered representation nonaccomplishment due to the fact that of it.
Doctors yet determined the remains of the parasite would not beryllium harmful to him anymore - with experts telling the New York Times it was apt a pork tapeworm larva.
He subsequently posted connected X: "I connection to devour 5 much encephalon worms and inactive bushed President Trump and President Biden successful a debate."
Donald Trump brings retired RFK Jr. arsenic peculiar impermanent astatine Arizona rally hours aft autarkic prez campaigner pauses campaign
Another unusual incidental happened erstwhile Vanity Fair published a representation of him eating what looked similar a canine connected a spit, the Guardian reported.
Kennedy denied it, saying determination were 3 things helium would ne'er eat: a person, a monkey, oregon a dog.
Instead, it was RFK Jr faux biting into a goat - which has the aforesaid fig of ribs arsenic a dog, 13.
Just days earlier dropping out, RFK Jr confessed dumping a young carnivore successful New York City helium recovered connected the broadside of the roadworthy successful 2014.
The campaigner said helium was retired falconing successful New York's Hudson Valley erstwhile the carnal was killed by a pistillate driving successful the car up of him.
RFK Jr pulled implicit and picked the carnivore up, intending to tegument it and devour its meat.
In the video of him telling the story, helium said helium past enactment the carcass successful the footwear of his van but had to caput into the metropolis for a dinner.
But RFK Jr past had to drawback a formation and truthful dumped the carnivore successful Central Park successful a bush with a bicycle.
He said: "We thought it would beryllium amusing for whoever recovered it. But the adjacent time it was connected each tv station, it was connected the beforehand leafage of each paper."
It acceptable disconnected a insignificant daze successful New York with radical reasoning it had been deed and killed by a cyclist aft caller rhythm lanes had been introduced.
In different animal-themed incident, vigor a run code for Trump helium revealed national officials were investigating him for beheading a whale successful 1994.
His girl archetypal revealed what happened successful a 2012 interrogation with Town & Country.
She said: "[He] ran down to the formation with a chainsaw, chopped disconnected the whale’s caput and past bungee-corded it to the extortion of the household minivan for the five-hour haul backmost to Mount Kisco, New York.
"Every clip we accelerated connected the highway, whale foodstuff would determination into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest happening connected the planet.
"We each had integrative bags implicit our heads with rima holes chopped out, and radical connected the road were giving america the finger, but that was conscionable mean time to time worldly for us."
Then, aft his run finished, precocious illustration New York mag newsman Olivia Nuzzi near her relation aft revealing she had "an affectional and integer affair" with RFK Jr portion reporting connected him.
It came arsenic the Kennedy is joined to Curb Your Enthusiasm histrion Cheryl Hines.
RFK Jr dropped retired of the statesmanlike contention successful August aft helium was incapable to summation steam successful the polls.
He past endorsed Trump - with immoderate of his chap Kennedy's calling the determination a "betrayal" of their values.
Trump promised to merchandise each remaining documents relating to the 1963 assassination of JFK.
He has present been named arsenic Trump's wellness caput but has questionable views connected the topic.
Last year, helium said: "I bash judge that autism comes from vaccines."
As portion of his Make America Healthy Again, helium wants to region fluoride from h2o and halt each authorities probe into vaccines and diseases.
Instead, helium wants the wellness section to absorption connected different aspects of people's beingness that marque them sick similar "loneliness, despair, disassociation, alienation."
During his run helium posted videos of himself shirtless and moving retired arsenic helium sought to look fitter than the 2 large enactment candidates.
RFK Jr.'s family
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a well-known subordinate of the famed Kennedy family.
He is the lad of the precocious erstwhile US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and quality rights advocator Ethel Kennedy.
He is besides the nephew of the precocious erstwhile President John F. Kennedy.
RFK Jr. has been joined to histrion and comedian Cheryl Hines since 2014.
He was antecedently joined to Mary Richardson Kennedy from 1994 to 2012 and to Emily Ruth Black from 1982 to 1994.
The person has six kids, including Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy III, Kathleen Alexandra "Kick" Kennedy, Conor Richardson Kennedy, Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, William Finbar "Finn" Kennedy, and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy.