Trump cabinet member's admission makes him unfit for role in admin: Bush cardiologist

A claim made by RFK Jr makes him unfit for the role of Secretary of Healthcare, a former Bush admin cardiologist has claimed.

RFK Jr, who has served Donald Trump's administration as the Secretary of Healthcare and Human Services throughout the president's second term in the White House, made an appearance on Theo Von's podcast earlier this week. During his appearance, he made a claim about his past drug use, which made him unafraid of germs.

RFK Jr said, "It's just bad for my life. I said this when we came in, I don't care whatever happens, I don't need it every day. I said I'm not scared of a germ; I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats. I know this disease will kill me if I don't treat it, which means, for me, going to meetings every day."

This admission on the Theo Von podcast is, according to ex-White House cardiologist Jonathan Reiner, a sign RFK Jr. needs to go.

He wrote on X, "Not an ideal resume item for an official who directs US health policy." Reiner has been an outspoken critic of Trump's health in recent months, and most recently suggested the president's frequent aspirin use is an oddity.

In an interview with NBC, Trump confirmed he is still taking aspirin and "I don't want to change". He added, "I want that blood to be nice and thin running through my heart."

Reiner, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at The George Washington University Hospital, has since shared that Trump's logic here makes little sense.

In a post to X, he wrote, "This still makes no sense." Earlier this year, Reiner suggested he is concerned about the president's health, and not just because of the aspirin intake. Speaking to The Lead host Phil Mattingly, Reiner says the public has received almost no "meaningful" information on Trump's health.