Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America's Children Healthy Again. It's a Good One | Opinion

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This is actually pretty unbelievable, as the guy making this endorsement is the guy that RFK Jr. totally eviscerated in his book about Fauci. Now he's basically telling Kennedy that "everything you said is spot-on."

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Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America's Children Healthy Again. It's a Good One | Opinion
Published Sep 24, 2024 at 8:00 AM EDT
Updated Sep 24, 2024 at 10:17 PM EDT
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By Robert Redfield
director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021
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In 2019, the Trump Administration set a course to address chronic disease, funding earlier interventions to curb the growing crisis. Five years later, this issue is exactly where it needs to be: at the center of the presidential debate, now in a unique partnership.

To heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act. After more than 40 years in the public health arena, it might surprise some of my colleagues to know I think President Trump chose the right man for the job: Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Talk of healthcare reform often centers on cost to consumers. We know chronic disease is more than 75 percent of the country's $4 trillion annual health care expenditure. Unfortunately, we have become a sick nation. We're paying too much for chronic disease, and this must change. It's time to make America healthy again.

Increasingly, it starts with our children. According to National Survey of Children's Health, more than 40 percent of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition. Parents reported around 41 percent of children under 18 had "current or lifelong health conditions" when asked about 25 health conditions.

For instance, obesity in American children has increased dramatically since John F. Kennedy's presidency, from around 4 percent in the 1960s to almost 20 percent in 2024. The causes of childhood obesity are complex, but a primary origin is clearly the modern American diet of highly processed foods.

But our food problem goes well beyond obesity: Pesticides are proven risk factors for neurodevelopmental outcomes in kids, causing maladies like ADHD. If the next president prioritizes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify which exposures are contributing to the spike in chronic disease in children, we will finally find out and end what is slowly destroying our children.

But when we know the causes, our federal government must be ready to fix the problems. Due to increased special interest and corporate influences on our federal agencies, prospects of national success are quite dim unless public trust is firmly re-established. Without public trust, our nation cannot effectively impact public health.

Across a century-plus of cozy courtship, the federal regulators have nearly married the regulated, especially in health care. Today, private industry uses its political influence to control decision-making at regulatory agencies, law enforcement entities, and legislatures.

Kennedy is right: All three of the principal health agencies suffer from agency capture. A large portion of the FDA's budget is provided by pharmaceutical companies. NIH is cozy with biomedical and pharmaceutical companies and its scientists are allowed to collect royalties on drugs NIH licenses to pharma. And as the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I know the agency can be influenced by special interest groups.

But it doesn't stop in the health agencies: the U.S. Department of Agriculture is a captive of industry, too. Created to help the family farmer and to ensure a wholesome food supply, today the agency often favors large corporations over the interests of small farmers and the public's health. To cure our children, we must reevaluate our food choices and the underlying practices of the agricultural sector. We must prioritize wholesome and nutritious food.

If we do not discover the depth of our corporate capture problem and fix it, we cannot truly address chronic disease in this country. The primary role of these vital agencies is to focus on public good, not corporate interests or personal profit—and most of the public servants working there are eager to do good.


Critics say our public health system has failed chronic disease patients, especially children. I must agree, and I'm even more frustrated that it's gotten steadily worse during my career. As parents and grandparents, doctors and good citizens, we must finally do something to end this chronic disease epidemic.

President Trump has pledged, if elected, to establish a panel of top experts working with Kennedy to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases. He specifically mentioned autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, and infertility. In 2019, when we took steps to take on the chronic disease epidemic, we also focused on creating earlier interventions in diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and more.

In response, Kennedy pledged that "within two years, we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically" if he's given the tools he needs to make a change.

I believe him. And I think President Trump will empower him. I support their noble effort to heal our children.

The exorbitant cost of the failing health of our kids, the needless suffering and death, can be ended by a Kennedy Commission on Childhood Chronic Disease—and the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts our nation can disappear. The key is to see the possible, and lead our nation to act.

Dr. Robert Redfield, an American virologist at the forefront of AIDS research, served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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‘You Got Everything Right’: Inside The Three-Hour Robert Redfield-RFK Lunch

The pair discussed vaccines, chronic disease, and how to help American children.
By Mary Margaret Olohan
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Sep 27, 2024 DailyWire.com

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote extensively about Robert Redfield in his scorching 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and The Global War on Democracy and Public Health.” Kennedy denounced Redfield, the former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as both a “charlatan” and a “pretender,” and tore into him for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

So he was very surprised when Redfield emphatically endorsed his efforts to fight chronic disease in a Tuesday op-ed for Newsweek.

“I believe him,” wrote Redfield. “And I think President Trump will empower him. I support their noble effort to heal our children.”

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign organized a lunch between the two men that same day at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., where they ended up chatting for over three hours, a person who was in the room told The Daily Wire.

Kennedy reportedly brought up the book first thing, jokingly apologetic that he was so tough on Redfield. When Redfield waved it off, saying he didn’t care, Kennedy asked him if he had actually read the book. Every page of it, Redfield responded — and he wished he brought it so Kennedy could autograph it.

They then proceeded to launch into a three-hour discussion on COVID, vaccines, chronic disease, and the future of America’s children.

A picture of the two men shared with The Daily Wire shows Redfield leaning on his hand, listening intently as Kennedy speaks over a steak lunch.

The first common ground the pair found together: Anthony Fauci.

Redfield and Kennedy had similar opinions about the NIH official, the person in the room said, spending about their first hour discussing the COVID pandemic and what had transpired. They came to the conclusion that the Trump team had been lied to, both by government bureaucrats and health companies, throughout the entire COVID response.

They also found common ground as they discussed mistakes that had been made in the deployment and development of the coronavirus vaccines. And the men reportedly agreed that the government never should have imposed a vaccine mandate.

The pair then turned to childhood chronic disease, and spent the two hours engaged in a serious discussion about what could be done to help American children. Redfield reportedly offered his help to Kennedy in whatever way the latter might need, and they plan to continue talking in the future.

“The first thing he said to me is ‘You got everything right,'” Kennedy said of the meeting.

Redfield’s embrace of Kennedy follows the former presidential candidate’s August 26 endorsement of Trump, when Trump praised Kennedy’s “decades of work as an advocate for the health of our families and our children.”

“Nobody’s done more,” Trump said of Kennedy. “Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our foods.”

“That is why today, I’m repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility, and many more,” Trump added. “We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life.”

The Daily Wire previously reported that the Kennedy endorsement is drawing a new crowd of voters to Trump: the health and wellness crowd, many of whom formerly voted independent or Democrat.

“I have been waiting my entire adult voting life for a presidential candidate to acknowledge how sick our country is,” influencer Courtney Swan told The Daily Wire earlier this month.

Swan was one of a cohort of high-profile health influencers and medical experts who descended on Capitol Hill this week to raise awareness about the spiraling state of American health during a roundtable discussion on “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion,” led by Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

For four hours on Monday, senators listened to the health experts and influencers express deep concerns about the state of American food, chronic diseases, and the difficulties that the average American mother faces as she tries to buy food for her kids that isn’t saturated with seed oils, food dyes, chemicals, and toxins. They argued that Americans are being poisoned by their food — and if lawmakers don’t take action, the United States could face a genocidal health collapse.

“If the current trends continue, if the graphs continue in the way that they are going, at best we are going to face profound societal instability, and decreased American competitiveness, and at worst, we’re going to be looking at a genocidal-level health collapse in our country, and the world,” argued Dr. Casey Means.

Means and others pointed to troubling health statistics. Chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are the leading causes of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and the “leading drivers of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual health care costs.” Close to 30% of American teens are prediabetic, more than 18% of young adults have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and cancer rates among young people are rising.

Experts have predicted that by 2030, almost half of United States adults will be severely obese, and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey found that 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy.

In one memorable moment during the roundtable, health activist Jason Karp ripped open two different boxes of Kellogg’s Fruit Loops on camera to demonstrate how many more food dyes are in U.S. cereal than Canadian cereal, telling the assembled lawmakers: “This is the brightness of artificial food dyes. Of course, Kellogg and other food companies will argue, children prefer this over this, just as they would prefer cocaine over sugar! That doesn’t make it ok.”

Fitness expert Jillian Michaels went on a now-viral tear as she described the chronic disease epidemic as an “extinction level event,” arguing that people have been “sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed” and that corporations are purposefully poisoning Americans for profit.

“The buck must stop with you, while the American people tend to the business of raising children and participating in the workforce to ensure that the wheels of our country go round,” she told lawmakers. “They tapped you to stand watch. They tapped you to stand guard.”

“We must hold these bad actors accountable,” she added. “If this current trend is allowed to persist, the stakes will be untenable. We are in the middle of an extinction level event. The American people need help, they need heroes, and people of Washington, your constituents chose you to be their champion. Please, be the change.”

On Thursday, Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller published an op-ed in Fox News expressing support for Kennedy.

“Food production is not only a matter of national security and well-being – and a sizable chunk of all economic activity – it is our birthright,” he wrote. “Today, with the leadership of President Trump and RFK Jr., America stands at the edge of a new dawn in sustainable, profitable and healthy farming that preserves our environment and supports this essential American industry.”

“Making America healthy again isn’t just about how we look on the beach, it’s about healing our culture and our nation from the ground up, and we must start with our children,” he added. “President Trump will lead us into this brighter, healthier future – and he chose the right man for the job in Robert Kennedy.”