Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has a message for the Senate ahead of the confirmation of his pal, Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“You better come ready senators, come ready and try and see if you can pull one over on my boy, Bobby, because Bobby’s f—ing smart, dude,” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show.
RFK Jr. was reportedly considering Rodgers as his running mate for his failed presidential campaign. The pair share the same anti-vaccination views, which have landed Kennedy in hot water ahead of his nomination to the top health job.
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Rodgers said he was excited to watch RFK Jr.’s hearings “just see who tried to f— with him.”
RFK Jr. has unveiled his plans to “Make America Healthy Again,” which include investigating the disproved link between vaccines and autism, banning food additives and removing fluoride from water.
Rodgers, who just finished out a season with the New York Jets, railed against “disgusting” chemical additives that Kennedy has promised to ban.
“So it’s going to [be] as he’s doing a service to everybody if you just let him and get the hell out of the way and stop trying to label him as whatever the f— they want to label him these days,” he continued.
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“He just wants to make sure that everything that’s being given to our kids is safe, everything that we’re ingesting on a day-to-day basis is safe, and he’s going to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ or is going to freaking die trying.”
RFK Jr. was presented with McDonald’s when he flew with his putative boss, Trump, on his plane in December. / Donald Trump Jr./X
The intervention by Rodgers in defense of his fellow anti-vaxxer may not calm nerves within the Trump transition that his confirmation is not, so far, a home run. Among Republican senators, there have been rumblings of skepticism from some, including Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana senator who chairs the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee which will vote on Kennedy’s confirmation. He has also faced pushback from a group led by former vice-president Mike Pence, with a group he leads urging Republicans to reject Kennedy for his pro-choice views.
Republicans have still to schedule a date for Kennedy’s first confirmation hearing and so far no Democrats have indicated publicly that they would even consider supporting him.
A further complication was the revelation this week by the Daily Beast that Kennedy had not declared vast amounts of money he was paid by his Children’s health Defense non-profit. He had to quietly correct official declarations to make clear that he had received $1.2 million from it over two years in 2022 and 2023, not the $731, 470.53 he had previously claimed.
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