I cannot tell you how absolutely thrilled I am to have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As a person who has battled and ignored the medical industrial complex for most of my life — and has achieved better health because I did — it is heartening and hopeful to have someone over these national health apparatuses who sees me and so many other Americans who have struggled, battled, and fought against the death care system for themselves and their loved ones. 

My colleague streiff said it well:

There is no money for anyone in keeping you healthy. As someone much wittier than me has said, we don't have a healthcare system; we have a sick-care system. No one in the research, pharmaceutical, or healthcare industries cares if you are healthy because they only get paid if you are sick. They do care about putting you on as many drugs as possible for the rest of your life. If you can reverse Type II diabetes with diet and exercise (and the data show that you can), that doesn't buy your doctor a bass boat. If Alzheimer's is Type III diabetes driven by insulin resistance, and it may be avoided by intervening before disease onset to modify diet and exercise programs, then no one gets paid billions to find a drug to cure a disease.

Streiff also acknowledged,

While some of Kennedy's ideas about health could be classified as "exotic," he asked questions that no one else seemed interested in talking about. Like why, with our enormous national investment in biomedical research and health care, is our nation a crap hole of health outcomes, particularly from chronic diseases?

Only a smattering of Americans were bothering to pay attention and ask these questions—now the entire nation hopefully will, and it's a glorious thing.

Thank you, President Trump. As a boy, I sat in the Oval Office where my uncle led on the issues of health and fitness. And now, six decades later, I stand with a transformational leader who fully grasps the public health crisis our great nation faces. I couldn’t be more thrilled… pic.twitter.com/jnuRksNmJ6

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) February 14, 2025

Thank you, President Trump. As a boy, I sat in the Oval Office where my uncle led on the issues of health and fitness. And now, six decades later, I stand with a transformational leader who fully grasps the public health crisis our great nation faces. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be confirmed as the 26th Secretary of @HHSGov. Let’s Make America Healthy Again.

I am All In. If you did not have the opportunity to hear the acceptance speech Kennedy gave at his swearing-in, you should, because it will encourage you to be "all in," too. I transcribed and present the speech in its entirety, with my own commentary in between.

Kennedy opened with these remarks.

I want to begin by thanking President Trump for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. And I want to introduce my family and thank them for being here: my wife Cheryl, my cousin Anthony Shriver, my daughter Kick, my other daughter Kyra, Katarina Shriver, Joey Shriver, Jackson Hines, and Amaryllis Kennedy. And I want to thank all of you for your support and...throughout this whole two-and-a-half-year journey. 

My first time in this Oval Office was in 1961...or 1962. I came here, and I had a meeting with my uncle, who was president then, where we talked about the environment. He was involved deeply — as we all know — in restoring physical fitness to this country. He challenged — at one point during his administration, he challenged Americans to do a 50-mile walk, which I ultimately did. But I remember the day that my father completed his walk, we were staying...up at Camp David. And my (father) came in after 18 hours walking on this, you know, towpath, with his feet bleeding and blisters on them. 

My father — one of his best friends was Al Lowenstein, and Al Lowenstein ultimately was a Congressman from New York who was assassinated himself in 1980. But Al Lowenstein had started the "Dump Johnson" movement to get rid of President Johnson and end the Vietnam War. And at the time that he started it, people just thought it was a fool's errand. And ultimately, he asked my father to run against Johnson. My father wouldn't do it at that time. And he asked Gene McCarthy; McCarthy did it, and he joined that campaign. And my father ultimately ran, and  Johnson had dropped out. So, Al Lowenstein had succeeded. And although Al Lowenstein was on the other side — running against my father with Gene McCarthy — my father wrote him a note, a quote from Emerson where he said, "If a single man plants himself firmly on his own ideal, and there abides, the whole wide world will come around to him." 

This reflects two things: legitimate bipartisan partnership to achieve a goal, and sound ideals will last and are worth the commitment. President Trump embodied this in bringing Kennedy, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and other "outsiders" on board to the Make America Great Again agenda. It's paid dividends in getting Trump elected, and I believe will continue to pay dividends in restoring America to its foundation and footings. 

For 20 years, I've gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country. On August 23 of last year, God sent me President Trump. He gave me... [Applause]  He's kept every promise he's made to me. He's kept his word in every account and gone way beyond it. I'm so grateful to you Mr. President. A lot of people told me that I couldn't trust President Trump, that I better get it in writing. And we did a handshake and everything that he told me he was going to do he has done. 

And I'm so grateful to him, and I've told you this before, I genuinely believe that you are a pivotal, historical figure. That you are going to transform this country. At a time when we see all the indicia of democracy now in tatters in our country: We see the rise of the military industrial complex, the rise of totalitarianism, these attacks on our constitution and this breathtaking epidemic that is disabling our people. 

I know several "MAHA Moms," and they are practically in tears over the victory of this confirmation. Unlike my own battle for my health, these women fought and suffered for and with their children, who were being failed by the medical industrial complex and being told they were bad mothers, crazy, and unhinged. 

Sorry for the ugly crying but this is the raw emotion behind the vaccine movement and all the moms & dads who fought so hard.
Vaccine injury exists and it will now be addressed pic.twitter.com/spBMi2zn27

— Denise Aguilar (@InformedMama209) February 13, 2025

The potential that children will be helped, rather than harmed, because the parents' concerns, coupled with data and research, will now be taken seriously is a paradigm shift and a huge win.

Kennedy delved into President Trump's promises to Make America Great Again then dovetailed into Make America Healthy Again and how one undergirds the other.

President Trump has promised to restore the American Dream in this country. A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person only has one. Sixty percent of our population has only one dream: that they get better. President Trump has promised he is going to restore America's strength. But we can't be a strong nation if we have a weak citizenry. If people are sick. Sixty percent of our people are sick. Seventy-seven percent, as President Trump mentioned, of our children cannot qualify for military service. We need a man on a white horse now. We need somebody who is willing to come in, and has the spine, and the guts and the strength to challenge orthodoxies, to stand in the way of vested interests, and to break institutions that have turned against our democracy. President Trump has shown again and again that he is that hero. Most recently, I greatly appreciate... and I called you the day that you announced the termination of USAID. My uncle started USAID in 1961 for humanitarian purposes, to put our country on the side of the poor. It has been captured by the military industrial complex. It has become a sinister propagator of totalitarianism across—and war—across the globe, and very few people understand how sinister this agency really is. And President Trump saw that and he stood up to it with a masterstroke. And we want to do the same thing with the institutions that are stealing the health of our children. We need a revolutionary figure, and you are that figure, and I am very grateful to you for giving me this opportunity. [Applause]

Kennedy acknowledged the congressional members, all Republicans, who bothered to not only listen to Kennedy, but give him a platform to bring MAHA to the rest of the nation. I remember when Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin dared to do a hearing on those injured from the COVID vaccine and was roundly mocked and censored because of it. Kennedy gave him and others flowers for their courage in standing with him and championing the cause. 

I want to recognize some of the allies that I've had in this battle for a long time: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), have all been champions of the MAHA agenda before I even came along. I am very grateful to you for standing strong. Thank you, President Trump.

A video of the entire speech is here.

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🚨BREAKING: Full RFK Jr. Victory Speech after being sworn in as America's newest Health Secretary. Very powerful speech! Must watch🔥 pic.twitter.com/QzLP7fqjD5

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