Another day in Florida: RFK Jr posts video of him wrestling two snakes
US health secretary gets nip from one of two serpents he grabbed at home of fellow Trump official Dr Oz
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health secretary, on Tuesday added to his lengthening catalog of bizarre wild animal encounters by posting to social media a video of himself in Florida wrestling with two snakes.
Kennedy, who has previously admitted dumping the carcass of a bear cub in New York’s Central Park, and is also alleged to have cut the penis of a road-kill raccoon, is seen grabbing the pair of serpents with his bare hands.
His wife, Cheryl Hines, is heard urging her husband to be careful as Kennedy shows them off to the camera, then recoils as one rears up and appears to bite his hand.
“Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio,” the post states. It refers to both the species of snake, and where the video was captured, believed to be the Palm Beach waterfront mansion belonging to Mehmet Oz, the controversial celebrity medic now serving as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Non-venomous southern black racers are the most common species of snake in Florida, and are known for their speed and agility. They are harmless to humans.
It is not clear when the 49-second recording was made, or what happened to the snakes.
A voice that sounds like Oz surmises the snakes were having sex, then queries if they were fighting. Kennedy, in a blue shirt and tie, laughs as he handles the pair together, well back from their heads, in his right hand, then veers back in apparent pain as one of the snakes rises up and strikes his left.
“You’re nuts,” a female voice says.
Kennedy’s prior dealings with the animal kingdom have become a rich source of curiosity and controversy. An article last month in the Week lists six separate encounters, including a 2014 episode in which he admitted to finding a dead bear cub on a road trip and putting it in his van with a plan to skin it and eat it later.
He said he dumped the animal in Manhattan’s Central Park when he ran out of time before a flight, and placed a bicycle on top of it in the hope of framing a cyclist.
Last month, in an equally outlandish story, it emerged from the newly published biography RFK Jr: The Fall and Rise that he had mutilated the carcass of a raccoon he found dead on a New York highway in 2001.
“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,” he wrote in his journal at the time, according to the book’s author, Isabel Vincent.
The book also alludes to Kennedy’s alleged fascination with seagulls and desire to add to his collection of skulls of deceased birds.
Perhaps the most extreme example, however, was the 2024 recounting of an undated incident in which Kennedy allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw, then drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof.
Other alarming claims include one that part of Kennedy’s brain was eaten by a worm, and another that he enjoyed eating barbecued dog.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A source close to Kennedy, however, said he was “doing just fine”.
What stands out is “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio,” the post states. That is the part worth paying attention to.
The detail about “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio,” the post states is something people should sit with.
US health secretary gets nip from one of two serpents he grabbed at home of fellow Trump official Dr. Meanwhile his wife, Cheryl Hines, is heard urging her husband to be careful as Kennedy shows them off to the camera, then recoils as one rears up and appears to bite his hand.
What stands out is his wife, Cheryl Hines, is heard urging her husband to be careful as Kennedy shows them off to the camera, then recoils as one rears up and appears to bite his hand. That is the part worth paying attention to.
The fact that his wife, Cheryl Hines, is heard urging her husband to be careful as Kennedy shows them off to the camera, then recoils as one rears up and appears to bite his hand really puts things into perspective.
Basically it is not clear when the 49-second recording was made, or what happened to the snakes. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
On one hand uS health secretary gets nip from one of two serpents he grabbed at home of fellow Trump official Dr. But at the same time his wife, Cheryl Hines, is heard urging her husband to be careful as Kennedy shows them off to the camera, then recoils as one rears up and appears to bite his hand.
Central Park has been vocal about this, good to see them staying on it.
On one hand “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio,” the post states. But at the same time non-venomous southern black racers are the most common species of snake in Florida, and are known for their speed and agility.
Think about it: it is not clear when the 49-second recording was made, or what happened to the snakes. That speaks volumes.
Reading that his wife, Cheryl Hines, is heard urging her husband to be careful as Kennedy shows them off to the camera, then recoils as one rears up and appears to bite his hand — hard to argue with the logic there.
On one hand it is not clear when the 49-second recording was made, or what happened to the snakes. But at the same time uS health secretary gets nip from one of two serpents he grabbed at home of fellow Trump official Dr.
If “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio,” the post states, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
Non-venomous southern black racers are the most common species of snake in Florida, and are known for their speed and agility. Meanwhile it is not clear when the 49-second recording was made, or what happened to the snakes.
In other words it is not clear when the 49-second recording was made, or what happened to the snakes. Curious to see how this develops.