President Donald Trump received his largest snigger on the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner by making enjoyable of his personal Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for consuming roadkill.
Wild tales about Kennedy dumping a lifeless bear in Central Park and eradicating a lifeless raccoon’s penis have been swirling ever since he was competing with Trump as an unbiased presidential candidate within the 2024 election.
After shifting his loyalty to Trump and changing into the chief of the Health and Human Services Department, Kennedy was a goal in entrance of the the Washington, D.C. press corps on Friday evening.
“I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire very delicious beef tenderloin. It’s very special beef, and I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy is right here,” the president mentioned throughout a rambling speech that lasted about an hour.
“Personally ran over the cow in his car,” Trump mentioned. “And he cut it up, and he brought it here for you to eat tonight. So, it’s very fresh.”
Kennedy appeared amused as the gang roared with laughter.
In August 2024, Kennedy posted a clip on social media of him telling former sitcom actress Roseanne Barr in regards to the time he took a bear that had simply been hit by a automobile and introduced it with him on a falconing journey in Goshen, New York.
“I was going to skin the bear — and it was in very good condition — and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” Kennedy mentioned.
He then went to New York City to attend a steakhouse dinner, the place he mentioned he realized he needed to go straight to the airport afterward. With the bear carcass nonetheless in his automobile, Kennedy mentioned he determined to dump the carcass in Manhattan’s Central Park.
Shortly after telling the world this surprising story, Kennedy admitted to a reporter, “I’ve been picking up roadkill my whole life,” including that he has a “freezer full of it.”
Another weird story involving Kennedy and lifeless animals made headlines in April, which Trump alluded to in his speech.
The president mentioned Kennedy “also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill.”
“But we drew the line at that, Cheryl,” referring to Kennedy’s actress spouse Cheryl Hines, who was sitting subsequent to him on the dinner.
“It is fun, but he’s a very different kind of a person,” Trump mentioned. “But he has what it takes, and he’s smart. And he loves the country.”
The joke stems from an allegation that Kennedy as soon as severed the penis of a lifeless raccoon whereas driving on the freeway along with his household.
That story was revealed in RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise a biography from The New York Post’s Isabel Vincent that depends on a sequence of alleged Kennedy diaries.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy wrote in a 2001 entry, based on the ebook. “My kids waited patiently in the car.”
Trump’s joke was amongst solely a handful that landed in an hour-long, poorly obtained diatribe focusing on his critics and the press, together with Wall Street Journal reporters who gained awards for his or her protection of Trump’s relationship to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“All these awards,” Trump mentioned. “Do I have a say?”