Critics let rip on President Donald Trump after he admitted to a reporter on Thursday that he doesn’t even know the person he has nominated to become America’s top doctor.
Trump was asked why he wanted physician-turned-anti-vaccine wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General, given that she’s not practicing medicine and didn’t finish her residency.
“Because Bobby thought she was fantastic,” the president replied, referring to Means’ fellow anti-vaxxer with whom she has close ties, the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“She’s highly … she’s a brilliant woman who went through Stanford and as I understand it, she basically wanted to be an academic as opposed to a surgeon,” Trump continued of Means.
Trump reiterated that Kennedy “really thought she was great.”
But he confessed: “I don’t know her. I listened to the recommendation of Bobby. I met her yesterday and once before. She’s a very outstanding person, a great academic actually, so I think she will be great.”
Social media users slammed Trump over the admission: