Newsmax's Michael Savage: “It was a huge mistake on the part of Donald Trump” to appoint Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Savage: “There are some really great scientists in the NIH. You can't throw them all out just because you don't like the politics of some of the people who ran HHS.”
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From the September 14, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Savage Nation with Michael Savage
MICHAEL SAVAGE (HOST): The Kennedy is doing a fairly good job, but he doesn't have the — to run the Department of Human — what is he running? This — he never should have been given that job. Never. It was a huge mistake on the part of Donald Trump. Kennedy is way over his head. He's not a scientist. He has no training in science. And you're just doing push ups doesn't make you a health expert, by the way. Just because you have great muscles at 47 or 55 doesn't mean that you know everything about science that is required to be known to run HHS, which is a huge and huge. You know, when it came — when Trump came along, to get political for a second — and he appointed Kennedy to HHS, and Kennedy said that we're going to fire everybody in the building, I went on the air and I said to you, that's the biggest mistake he could ever make.
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Not all scientists are political operatives. There are some really great scientists in the NIH. You can't throw them all out just because you don't like the politics of some of the people who ran HHS, like those involved in the National Institute of Health, like Fauci. You can't say all scientists are propagandists and they should all be fired. He made a huge error because he didn't have the scope necessary to run the HHS. It was way beyond his abilities, his knowledge. He had no knowledge. He has no degree in science. How can he run HHS? How can the man run HHS if he's never done basic science, never done one experiment? Did he ever work in a laboratory or even knows what laboratory science is? No. So you say everyone in laboratory science is a Doctor Frankenstein. Fire them all. Stupid. This is the problem with revolutionaries and revolutions. You know, you shoot everybody in a fascist dictatorship who opposes you. And in a non-fascist dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the mind, you fire everybody who you think is your enemy. Huge mistake.