HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. paired up with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Monday at Reagan International in another attempt to Make Airports Great Again.
The federal government has issued a $1 billion grant in order to “improve” airports.
During one of the strangest Trump Administration press conferences ever, grifters and influencers peddled nonsense instead of addressing consumer safety and affordability, but also seized the opportunity to throw in a MAHA pull-up contest.
The former Fox News performer Duffy had a lineup of conservative weirdos with proposals for airports to become beacons of healthy family-friendly centers.
Physician Paul Saladino, a supplement-hawker who believes in raw milk and promotes the carnivore diet (because plants are toxic to humans, he says) is excited at the idea of installing mini-gyms in airports — even as Duffy has promoted that frequent fliers should dress up to travel.
- When asked if there wasn’t a concern that sweaty travelers sitting shoulder to shoulder on airplanes would be a problem, Saladino said that even a 3-5 minute workout would be a health benefit, a massive step in a healthy direction, and a huge thing to offer Americans.
Then there was some podcaster named Isabel Brown from the Daily Wire who was advocating for better breastfeeding spaces in airports, insisting this would inspire more women to embrace motherhood and raise birth rates.
- Kennedy apparently got excited at the thought and mentioned the nutritional qualities of “a mother’s breast.”
- Brown also threw out her expertise with a statement about transgenders: “In all my years of science education, I don’t think we have yet figured out a way for men to breastfeed.”
Kennedy also weighed in on unhealthy airport food, while Luke Saunders, the CEO of health food chain Farmer’s Fridge, spoke briefly to call for more healthy food options in airports.
Duffy punted on the cost of healthy airport food, citing the free market gains.