Kerry Kennedy Tries Bashing RFK Jr. Again, and His Response Is Pure Gold

Back in 2024, we wrote extensively about the Kennedy family's over-the-top reactions not only to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s run for president, but also his decision to drop out of the race and endorse Donald Trump.

One particular moment that stuck out to me was what RFK Jr.'s sister, Kerry, said during a CNN interview in late August of 2024, basically disowning her brother over politics and in a very public way.

"I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump," she stated. "And I completely get out and separate and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. in this flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father’s memory."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the high road at the time, as he has done since, saying, "I understand that they're troubled by my decisions. I love my family. I feel like we were raised in a milieu where we were encouraged to debate each other and debate ferociously and passionately about things and still love each other."

Fast forward to the present times, and Kerry Kennedy is still out there attacking her brother, who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The latest instance was on CNN, where, after being asked to tell stories about RFK Jr.'s love of nature, she told one of her brother allegedly holding a snake in one hand and his infant son in the other, before throwing it into a pool full of children:

Kerry Kennedy tells Erin her brother, RFK Jr. once captured a snake while holding his infant child, showed it to kids at a birthday party “chomping on his hand,” and then released the snake into a swimming pool filled with children. pic.twitter.com/ePDo2qd0wV
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) June 16, 2026

The question was asked in the context of the viral video from late May that showed RFK Jr. wrangling black racer snakes on the patio of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, which RedState covered.

There wasn't any need for Kerry Kennedy to elaborate beyond what she said about appreciating what her brother taught her about nature, except she did, because her point was to bash him as unfit for the office he holds in the Trump administration in part over something he allegedly did decades ago.

Instead of bashing back, RFK Jr. was once again a class act. But he added a zing about Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) for good measure, because that's all any of this boils down to:

With my sister Kerry in 1964 pre TDS pic.twitter.com/LHnKZ1d1zp
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 16, 2026

As I've said before, I get that political disagreements among family members can get heated, and in some cases have even caused estrangement. But even if my family name was well known nationally with political careers that spanned generations, I still cannot envision any scenario where I would go on record and treat that person with the utter contempt and hatred that some members of RFK Jr.'s family have shown him over the last few years - all in the name of virtue signaling about how they are supposedly on the "correct" side of things and against Trump.

The Kennedys love to talk about the family's supposed "values," which is quite fascinating and, to some people, hysterical when one considers the family's very sordid personal and political history, so I suppose we should thank Kerry Kennedy once again for reminding us of another obscene "Kennedy family value": Politics over family.

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