He also delivered what was probably intended as a glowing endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
“He wants to make people healthy. It’s driven him pretty wild over the last number of years,” he said. “And today I nominated him for, I guess — if you like health, and if you like people that live a long time — it’s the most important position.”
It’s not the first time Trump has associated the word “wild” with Kennedy ― a prominent anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who’s vowed to overhaul the department in charge of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump said at a campaign rally last month.
Trump also thanked Linda McMahon, co-chair of the America First Policy Institute, which is a think tank founded to promote Trump’s policy agenda.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
