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BREAKING: Trump Ditches MAHA Surgeon General, Bashes GOP Senator, Nominates Fox Contributor

Bulwark Takes

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Jonathan Cohn are going live to cover Trump's newest Surgeon General nominee, Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor. After pulling Casey Means' nomination, Trump bashed GOP Senator Bill Cassidy for opposing Means.

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0:00.0

All right, hey, everyone. We got an emergency podcast here with my man, Jonathan Cohn,

0:04.6

because just about 30 minutes ago, Donald Trump, through a series of bleats, announced,

0:10.6

I think he announced, it's sort of insinuated, if not outwardly announced that his

0:14.4

Surgeon General nominee, Casey Means, is no longer the Surgeon General nominee.

0:19.1

Where she's going, we don't know. He said something akin to,

0:22.5

she'll continue to serve the Mahal movement, but made no indication of in what capacity you could

0:28.0

see it right there. And instead, he is nominating Dr. Nicole B. Safar, who is a actual doctor, unlike

0:37.3

Casey Means.

0:38.5

I believe she works at Sloan Kettering, but I may be wrong about that.

0:41.4

I'll get that in a second.

0:43.2

But she's also a Fox News contributor, has been since 2018.

0:48.1

Yeah, she is a radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

0:51.4

So she's an actual doctor, which is an upgrade.

0:55.1

But for now, let's focus on Casey Means because Jonathan, you've been doing extensive writing,

1:00.6

reporting analysis of that nomination.

1:04.1

And it was doomed pretty much from the start.

1:07.0

Why did he pick her in the first place, Casey, that is?

1:09.9

Well, I mean, you know, he picked her because she was very much in the spirit of the RFK Jr.

1:16.5

Maha imperative, right?

1:18.8

I mean, she had gone to medical school.

1:21.3

Let's be clear.

1:21.8

She had a, you know, a medical degree from Stanford, you know, smart, very knowledgeable,

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