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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during a fireside chat with CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos) Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr , who once flexed his disdain for Donald Trump and his base of “belligerent idiots,” stressed on Saturday that he “drank the Kool-Aid,” and the president wasn’t as “ill-informed” as he once believed. In remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference , Kennedy claimed Trump has “encyclopedic, molecular knowledge” across a “wide range of very, very eclectic interests” before recalling a time the two dined on McDonald’s aboard his plane during the 2024 campaign. “We started talking about Syria and he got a placemat and he turned it on its back and then he took a Sharpie and drew a perfect map of the Mid East,” said Kennedy of Trump, who claimed that he “ never wrote a picture ” in his life last year while denying that he gave a racy 2003 birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein. Kennedy continued, “Then he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about him.” He added that Trump has an “extraordinary depth of knowledge” about what’s happening in each agency alongside an “instinct for making good choices” before concluding that the president is better than his uncle, John F. Kennedy, at understanding the use of power in the White House. Trump has a record of mixing up names of people and places over the years, adding to behavior that has left health experts and former Trump officials concerned over his cognitive fitness. RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him. — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T23:43:26.526Z Social media users swiftly clowned Kennedy over his Trump story, with one user on X calling out the health secretary over his “ asinine BS ” and another writing that it’s “ genuinely crazy to watch the North Korean level hero worship manifest in real time.” Lolol. I can’t stop laughing at this asinine BS. The fact that RFK Jr feels the need to make up this garbage in a desperate attempt to make Trump seem competent just proves how bad things are. https://t.co/aGAybtVmyj — Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) March 29, 2026 it's genuinely crazy to watch the North Korean level hero worship manifest in real time https://t.co/MJGdo6JbhT — Cameron ? (@CameronCorduroy) March 29, 2026 I dare a reporter to ask him to do this live https://t.co/mWlFHSLtS8 — Elika Sadeghi (@elikasadeghi) March 29, 2026 Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most! https://t.co/JlCFQVovZv — Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) March 29, 2026 knowledge of the middle east's geography is literally the least thing a president should know. it's like geopolitics 101. this is not impressive. https://t.co/JTgEkmzxa9 — mpls molly (@mollywidstrom) March 29, 2026 https://t.co/jCWIxIN0rd pic.twitter.com/iKY7DyCsSk — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) March 29, 2026 A reminder that just two years ago RFK was a Democrat who was comparing Trump to Hitler and now he sits at CPAC as a loyal sycophant making up absurd stories to praise Dear Leader Trump and keep his job. https://t.co/q0wcYGEPny — Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 29, 2026 Authoritarian leader cult alert https://t.co/zWEsNUcROM — Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) March 29, 2026 Then he played a round of golf and had a hole-in-one on every hole. https://t.co/e7TZzWo8ZT — Tom Colicchio (@tomcolicchio) March 29, 2026 https://t.co/hc5HG8PEyD pic.twitter.com/cLYcAHvpFf — Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 29, 2026 Related... Marco Rubio Struggles To Explain Trump's Ukraine Policy Clearly In 1 Messy Minute Senior MP Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Trump As He Slates Nato US Taxpayers’ Tab For Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 Million
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