Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast, set to feature conversations with healthcare leaders investigating the root causes of U.S. public health crises.
“This isn’t going to be about politics,” Kennedy said in a teaser video. “It’s about our families, about our children. It’s about confronting the spiritual malaise and embracing the truth. If we want a healthy nation, we have to confront the lies that have made us spiritually, morally, and physically sick.”
In The Secretary Kennedy Podcast, Kennedy will speak to doctors, scientists, medical innovators, and researchers about chronic disease and how to build a healthier nation. The move is part of a push from the Department of Health and Human Services for a “new era of radical transparency in government,” Kennedy said in the teaser video.
Kennedy, who has been interviewed on The Joe Rogan Experience and The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show, is the first sitting Cabinet member to launch his own podcast. Wellness podcasts have had a profound impact on spreading the word of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement over the past few years.
“I’m going to ask the questions that lift the taboos and expose the hypocrisy and the conflicts and the corruption,” Kennedy said in his announcement. “We’re going to follow the evidence wherever it leads, and we’re going to name the names of the forces that obstruct the paths to public health.”
The first episode is set to launch next week, according to the Associated Press.
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The podcast marks the latest communications move for a Trump administration focused on new media outreach in a political landscape where voters are increasingly reliant on social media and podcasts for their information.
Some 2028 presidential candidates, including Democratic Govs. Gavin Newsom (CA) and Andy Beshear (KY) have launched podcasts of their own as they seek to reach voters in new ways.
