Trump's health head is Bob's your uncle

So, Don-bhai has hired Bobby Kennedy Jr as the incoming secretary of health. Even Trumpites are secretly scratching their J D Vance-style beards trying to make sense of bringing in an anti-Covid vaccine advocate as America’s health honcho, while Trump himself had praised the vaccine during his first presidency as ‘one of the greatest achievements of mankind’.

So, is this counterintuitive hire the secret sauce to Trump’s corpo-political genius? Kennedy’s resume certainly screams, ‘Ambulances are for cowards!’ And yet….

So, is there any method in this madcapness? Hiring the ‘worst’ candidate, Trump may reckon, will bring expectations down so low that even ho-hum policy action will come across as fab. Unburdened by ‘traditional wisdom’, Trump’s outliers – including incoming director of national intelligence Tulsi ‘Putin is swell’ Gabbard – may innovate in ways that may seem ludicrous but could lead to, well, if not revolutionary breakthroughs, then at least keeping the polarisation pot boiling.

A more reasonable explanation could be arch conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense founder RFK possessing some information or value that has forced Trump’s hand.

In lieu of Bobby the environmental lawyer ‘staying away from the oil’, this chair may well be a ‘you don’t scratch my eyes out, and I’ll scratch your back’ deal.