Kennedy With a Bone to Pick with Our Health Dept Enjoys Destroying it

  Lawrence O’Donnell dubs RFK Jr. ‘the most dangerous nepo baby in American history’

“Trump got the health and human services secretary that he deserves, but the country did not,” O’Donnell said after Kennedy’s disastrous testimony Thursday.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is finally getting his wish of sucker-punching the federal health agencies. This week, Kennedy began the process of firing some 10,000 employees working under the Health and Human Services umbrella. Even before he took office, Kennedy warned health officials that they should pack their bags, and on Tuesday, he defended the cuts: “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” Kennedy posted on X. He is focused on “realigning HHS with its core mission: to stop the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.” But instead of improving how the federal health bureaucracy works, RFK Jr. is throwing his agencies into chaos. 

Sept. 6, 2025 

By Allison Detzel

Lawrence O'Donnell

Almost seven months into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure, Lawrence O’Donnell has coined a new nickname for Donald Trump’s health secretary, dubbing him “the most dangerous nepo baby in American history.” 

During his Thursday monologue, O’Donnell tore into Kennedy over his disastrous testimony on Capitol Hill. Earlier in the day, Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, where he was grilled by Democrats and Republicans alike over his anti-vaccine policies. 

The “Last Word” host highlighted a particular phrase used by the secretary during that testimony: “When my uncle was president.” O’Donnell argued that “no Kennedy has ever trafficked more blatantly and offensively in the dead Kennedys’ memories than Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has never been a serious student of or practitioner of anything.”  

O’Donnell said Kennedy’s career is one built on family connections, not genuine ability. That includes his place in the Trump administration, which O’Donnell said he only secured “because of one word: Kennedy.”

“Donald Trump, a lifelong attention addict, grew up obviously dazzled by the Kennedy fame machine,” O’Donnell continued. “Fame is currency with Donald Trump.” The MSNBC host said the “nepo baby” title is another quality that Kennedy shares with the president. “The most unqualified and incompetent health and human services secretary in history took his place in the Trump Cabinet, working for a man whose fortune and business career was handed to him by his father — Donald Trump, the most famous nepo baby in the New York real estate business,” O’Donnell said.

In the end, O’Donnell said it was the American people who would have to suffer for the president’s decision to appoint Kennedy: “Trump got the health and human services secretary that he deserves, but the country did not.

Trump Appointed this man with plenty of issues but Trump is full of issues and he love followers with money no matter who they are, even gay. There are at least 3 out gays workin g for Trump in the White House, so Kennedy had a 2 things goin g for him: Money and the Name.

Kennedy is destroying our health system that had taken so many decades to built one brick on top of the other but solidly forming a tower helping Americans and others around the world. 

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