Trump Picks Incompetent Wellness Influencer for Surgeon General

Trump’s nominee for U.S. surgeon wide is beyond unqualified. The president has selected Casey Means, a self-described “wellness influencer” from the Make America Healthy Again ranks, to service arsenic highest nationalist wellness authoritative successful the land.

“I americium pleased to denote that Dr. Casey Means, volition beryllium nominated arsenic our adjacent Surgeon General of the United States of America. Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and volition enactment intimately with our fantastic Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to guarantee a palmy implementation of our Agenda successful bid to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and guarantee Great Health, successful the future, for ALL Americans. Her world achievements, unneurotic with her life’s work, are perfectly outstanding,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social Wednesday. “Dr. Casey Means has the imaginable to beryllium 1 of the finest Surgeon Generals successful United States History. Congratulations to Casey!”

Trump’s archetypal nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, was axed for not being sufficiently kooky capable for the likes of Laura Loomer.

“[Dr. Nesheiwat] utilized her entree to Fox News to beforehand the unsafe Covid vaccine, which is present sidesplitting millions of people,” Loomer wrote connected X this week. “She tried to shame radical who didn’t instrumentality the vaccine by calling them planetary wellness threats. Vaccines are a substance of PERSONAL HEALTH FREEDOM.”

Means has nary progressive aesculapian license, arsenic she dropped retired of her residency aft becoming “disillusioned” with basal medicine. She alternatively decided to perpetrate herself to alternate medicine.

She besides has unsurprisingly arguable views connected vaccination.

“I person said innumerable times publically I deliberation vaccine mandates are criminal. I deliberation corruption successful the FDA is overwhelming. I deliberation RFK is doing God’s enactment successful calling each this out,” Means wrote connected X past November.

“There is nary payment to the babe oregon the wider colonisation for a kid to get this vaccine who is not astatine hazard for intersexual oregon IV transmission. There is lone risk. Kids who don’t person this unnecessary pharmaceutical can’t spell to schoolhouse successful galore states,” she wrote successful August, referring to the hepatitis B vaccine. “EVERYONE should go funny astir wherefore these interventions are institutionally jammed down our throats and radical are made to beryllium heretical whackos for questioning it.”

Actual aesculapian professionals raised contiguous alarm aft quality of Means’s information broke.

“Casey Means is simply a grifter who dropped retired of ENT residency & commencement a institution selling glucose monitors & wellness each to non-diabetics. She doesn’t cognize basal science, yet claims she’s a metabolism expert,” idiosyncratic Dr. Andrea Love wrote connected X. “Incomplete ENT residency ≠ expert. Of people she’s up for Surgeon General.”

More accusation astir Means’s confirmation proceeding docket is expected successful the coming weeks.