CNN Morning Crew Cracks Up At RFK on Trump Plane ‘Being Forced To Eat Poison’ In ‘Hostage Video’
CNN’s morning crew cracked up over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plight as he posed on the Trump plane with a spread of McDonald’s food in what they described as a “hostage video” of Kennedy “being forced to eat poison.”
RFK Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee — went viral over the weekend in a photo posted to social media by Trump deputy communications director Margo Martin that featured Trump, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump Jr. joining Kennedy in some burgers and fries — and many users read Kennedy’s facial expression as less than enthusiastic.
POV: walking by the cool kids table 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/RWkw6CufKB
— Margo Martin (@margomartin) November 17, 2024
Kennedy appeared in that photo despite — or perhaps because of — remarks he made just days earlier deriding Trump’s campaign plane food as “poison.”
On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt and her panel of regulars got a kick out of the spectacle, with Hunt literally pointing and laughing at the viral photo:
KASIE HUNT: One thing that, of course, came out over the weekend that certainly rippled through my social media feeds was the photo of RFK on the Trump plane doing something that he previously seemed to suggest he would never do, which is eating a Big Mac. Or maybe that’s a Big Mac, I don’t know, some McDonald’s burger. (LAUGHS) The look on his face. I mean, it’s worth noting. Let’s play what RFK had previously had to say about the food that goes on to Donald Trump’s plane. Let’s watch.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: The stuff that he eats is is really like, bad. It is. It’s not. Campaign food is always the food at the end of that airplane as like as poison.
KASIE HUNT: Can confirm the campaign food is always bad but let’s put that put his face back out there like with that posing with that Big Mac, Alex Thompson, because this does not look like a man who’s like thrilled to be there.
ALEX THOMPSON: It’s a hostage video! (LAUGHTER) And you know, I also think beyond it being hilarious and just like the grimace on his face as he’s being forced to eat poison to please Donald Trump.
I also think it gets to what our conversation was before. You know, there are some things that he could do at HHS that actually have a little bit of bipartisanship, bipartisan support, you know, sort of shaking up pharma, shaking up the FDA and like what, you know, stuff we eat the thing that’s going.
But there is not a bipartisan consensus on his views on vaccines, on a lot of his more like, you know, conspiratorial thoughts and that’s going to be you know the really interesting thing if he does get confirmed, as Isaac was saying, you know, what he actually does when he has this sort of power could have, like profound consequences.
KASIE HUNT: Yeah, I think it’s a good point because there are some things that he’s proposing. I mean, fluoride in water, for example, is one of the conversations that’s been had in Western European countries, some of whom have removed it. Right.
And there is oftentimes and we’ve talked about this on the show, a kind of health related consensus where the right and the left come together sometimes in conspiracy theory, but sometimes sometimes not.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
