Fast Food

Liz Wolfe | 11.18.2024 9:44 AM

Making America Healthy Again, one Big Mac at a time: First it was the Kamala Harris claim that she worked at McDonald's, a probably true but not totally proven story about a job she took back in college, told to try to make her seem middle-class and relatable. Then it was Donald Trump's shift at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania in the final month of the campaign. Now it's Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the nation's food regulators—being hazed by Trump and co., forced to eat burgers and fries on a private jet flying to a UFC match.

RFK Jr. essentially being hazed here with the McDonalds pic.twitter.com/hH3N8GwkhE

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 17, 2024

Theories abound about what RFK Jr. will do as HHS head. The discourse has turned to possible culprits for mass obesity and chronic disease. Seed oils? Food dyes? Too much added sugar in food? (Certainly that last one.) And of course, this has all spiraled into a discourse about elites unwilling to admit that McDonald's tastes good, further purported proof of the disconnect between the ruling class and the masses.

All of this is to say that the coming health culture wars will be tedious and miserable, made worse by RFK Jr. serving as generalissimo.

"President Trump has asked me to do three things: 1. Clean up the corruption in our government health agencies. 2. Return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science. 3. Make America Healthy Again by ending the chronic disease epidemic," writes Kennedy on X. Note the rhetorical trick........

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