The momfluencers embracing ‘Make America Healthy Again’
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Robert F Kennedy Jr. - President Trump's pick as health secretary - begins his confirmation hearings today. He's the man who coined the phrase 'Make America Healthy Again', but with a track record of conspiracy-led and anti-vaxx views, Washington has looked at his nomination with alarm. Still, his fight against Big Pharma and Big Food has been welcomed by an interesting cohort: a band of women calling themselves ‘crunchy moms.’
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| 0:00.0 | You want work to be less hard work. |
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| 0:17.5 | You say a big thank you. We say you're welcome. |
| 0:24.8 | MHR, the science behind HR, payroll and finance. |
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| 0:38.3 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:50.3 | We're going to make America great again. Make America great again. Make America great again. Make America great again. You know the words to that tune, but how about this one? Don't you want a president |
| 0:59.0 | who's going to make America healthy again? After long being a thorn in Donald Trump's side |
| 1:08.4 | as a very popular independent candidate in the presidential |
| 1:12.0 | election last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now fully embraced the MAGA movement, somewhat |
| 1:18.3 | refashioning it as the MAHA movement. |
| 1:24.0 | President Trump's most controversial cabinet nominees are expected to face tense confirmation hearings. |
| 1:29.5 | A jam-packed week here on Capitol Hill of what are expected to be tense confirmation hearings |
| 1:34.3 | for three of Donald Trump's most controversial handpicked nominees, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| 1:41.2 | When he tapped up RFK Jr., political scion turned conspiracy theorist as health secretary, |
| 1:47.0 | there were audible gasps in some circles. This, after all, was the man who accused the |
| 1:52.0 | Food and Drug Administration of waging a war on public health, and called the Centers for Disease |
| 1:57.4 | Control and Prevention a fascist enterprise. |
| 2:06.8 | But there was one corner of the internet, where the announcement inspired quite a different reaction. |
| 2:11.7 | Make America great and healthy again. |
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