Anyone who has ever managed a large institution can see plainly that Kennedy is out of his depth. His erratic and disjointed views on health and healthcare were bad enough, but yesterday’s Senate hearing exposed a far deeper problem: a lack of even the most basic skills or comprehension required to lead a complex organization. Kennedy’s approach mirrors trump’s—marked by poor management, impulsiveness, and a childish, personalized style of leadership.
The Wall Street Journal editorial gets it exactly right. It not only raises serious questions about Kennedy’s integrity but also strips away the illusion of leadership. True leadership requires capable advisors who base decisions on rigorous science and tested expertise—not on rumors passed around the political playground.
As I have often said about trump’s cabinet: first-rate managers hire first-rate people; second-rate managers hire third-rate people. Unfortunately for the country, trump himself is a third-rate manager—and you can draw your own conclusions about the caliber of those who surround him, Kennedy included.
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RFK Jr.’s Operation Warped Memory
The health secretary can’t keep his vaccine story straight.
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Sept. 4, 2025 at 6:39 pm ET
Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suffering from long Covid? His memory was foggy during a Senate hearing on Thursday, in which the Health and Human Services Secretary hailed as “genius” President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which produced Covid vaccines in record time. Mr. Trump must have liked hearing that.
But these are the same vaccines that RFK has also called “a crime against humanity.” So which is it, Mr. Kennedy: Was Mr. Trump’s vaccine operation a triumph or a government catastrophe?
Mr. Kennedy has lambasted the mRNA technology that underlies the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines as unsafe and ineffective, never mind that they have saved millions of lives around the world. He has called the Covid jabs the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” Last month he moved to end $500 million in contracts for other mRNA vaccine development.
Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy on Thursday asked the slippery Mr. Kennedy if he agreed with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s statement this week that Mr. Trump deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed.
Mr. Kennedy concurred, saying that the project rapidly “got the vaccine to market that was perfectly matched to the virus at that time, when it was badly needed because there was low natural immunity and/or people getting very badly injured by COVID.” Yes, and the reason for the vaccines’ rapid development was mRNA technology, which Mr. Kennedy wants to abandon.
The secretary has stacked an official vaccine advisory panel with people who share his skepticism of vaccines. One concern is that they could change vaccine recommendations to limit access, which Susan Monarez, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that she tried to stop before she was pushed out last week.
Mr. Kennedy came under fire at Thursday’s hearing from both Democrats and Republicans over his moves to undermine vaccines. “In your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines,” Wyoming GOP Sen. John Barrasso said. “Since then, I’ve grown deeply concerned.” Mr. Kennedy struggled to defend his inconsistencies.
Vice President JD Vance tried to ride to Mr. Kennedy’s defense. “When I see all these senators trying to lecture and ‘gotcha’ Bobby Kennedy today,” Mr. Vance wrote on social media, “all I can think is: You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal ‘therapies’ for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You’re full of sh— and everyone knows it.” Classy, as ever, Mr. Vice President.
None of this is true of Dr. Cassidy, Dr. Barrasso, and other Senators, and the Vice President knows it. Mr. Vance is trying to rally Republicans to RFK’s side by framing this dispute in a polarized partisan framework, either/or, us/them. That may serve his political purposes as he courts RFK’s supporters with 2028 in mind, but it won’t win over anyone paying attention to the health secretary’s contradictions as he attacks life-saving vaccines.
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