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Pro-Trump New York Post Hits RFK Jr. With The Damning ‘Ugly Truth’
Lee Moran
Tue, December 16, 2025

The New York Post editorial board has delivered yet another scathing rebuke of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Read the full editorial on The New York Post.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, which has previously slammed vaccine skeptic Kennedy as a “paranoid kook” whose “tinfoil hat is blocking out all sense,” tore into the Trump Cabinet member for his war on what it called “one of the biggest public health wins of the last century: the widespread use of disease-eradicating vaccines.”

The usually pro-Donald Trump newspaper slammed Kennedy’s “dangerous and plain dumb war on vaccines” in the piece, titled “RFK Jr.’s lunatic war on vaccines puts kids at risk.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, has been slammed by the usually pro-Donald Trump newspaper, The New York Post. Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images

The Post also accused Kennedy, the recent subject of salacious allegations from onetime digital lover Olivia Nuzzi, of “terrifying young parents by suggesting, based on debunked nonsense, that vaxxing their kids could ruin their health forever when the opposite is true,” calling it not only “mind-bogglingly irresponsible” but “downright cruel.”

The board hauntingly concluded, “The ugly truth: The only end result will be more sick and dead kids.”

Last month, the also Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal called out what it described as Kennedy’s “ideological crusade” against vaccines.

“Who decided to leave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. home alone at the Health and Human Services Department?” the newspaper’s conservative editorial board asked, noting: “Without adults to supervise the Secretary, he’s damaging public trust in immunizations, and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been conscripted into his anti-vaccine campaign.”