CNN’s Jake Tapper gave a blunt assessment of President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of health — deadpanning on air as the news broke, “Well, America, I hope you like measles.”
The longtime Kennedy critic made the jibe during Thursday’s show as Tapper discussed Trump’s other cabinet picks, including scandal-scarred Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general, with guest Kate Bedingfield, a former White House communications chief under President Biden.
Kennedy, who had suspended his presidential campaign as an independent in August and endorsed Trump shortly after, has been vocal about his belief in the lack of effectiveness of vaccines, especially the COVID jab.
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