sourceTrump’s Latest Administration Pick Is a Quack TV Doctor
Donald Trump has decided to nominate TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.
Trump issued a statement Tuesday announcing the move, saying, “There may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again.”
Oz ran for the Senate in 2022 in Pennsylvania, earning Trump’s endorsement against Democrat John Fetterman, but lost even after Fetterman suffered a stroke resulting in unfavorable media attention. Oz’s bumbling Senate campaign was full of gaffes, including the inconvenient fact that he was a resident of New Jersey and not the Keystone State.
Prior to all of that, Oz was best known for peddling “miracle” medical cures and quack diet solutions on daytime television, which ultimately led to him being dressed down at a congressional hearing. Oz has tried to explain all of this away by claiming that he is an entertainer, not a doctor, which certainly undercuts whatever credibility Trump thinks he will bring to this new government position.
Trump and Oz know each other at least going back to the president-elect’s first campaign, when he appeared on Oz’s TV show for a softball interview in 2016 and deflected questions about his own health while taking subtle jabs at his opponent Hillary Clinton’s health.
After listing Oz’s résumé, which obviously made no mention of his medical transgressions, Trump’s statement Tuesday closed with, “I have known Dr. Oz for many years, and I am confident he will fight to ensure everyone in America receives the best possible Healthcare, so our Country can be Great and Healthy Again!”
With Oz and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted anti-vaxxer and medical conspiracist, both taking on health care leadership positions in Trump’s administration, the next four years may lead to extensive damage to American public health.
If It Walks like a Duck,
If It Walks like a Duck,
It's likely to become part of the Trump administration....
Re: If It Walks like a Duck,
I guess I'm just cynical, but it is what I expected.
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Re: If It Walks like a Duck,
Quack, Quack. As a neighbor of Pennsylvania, afflicted with Philly tv, I enjoyed the senator campaign of Dr. Oz. What is it with new Jersey people and PA politics? For this election, it seems a New Jersey guy was preferred for senator over the incumbent.
But yeah, this is consistent with all the rhetoric from Trump in the last four years. My big complaint it that it seems all those papers that belong in the National Archives are gonna stay in the bathroom. This leaves conscientious workers in our national security groups in a real problem--do they, for the long term good of the country, restrict information that is going to the commander in chief?
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But yeah, this is consistent with all the rhetoric from Trump in the last four years. My big complaint it that it seems all those papers that belong in the National Archives are gonna stay in the bathroom. This leaves conscientious workers in our national security groups in a real problem--do they, for the long term good of the country, restrict information that is going to the commander in chief?
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