The 8 Best Late-Night Jokes About RFK Jr.
Many of Donald Trump’s nominees for cabinet positions have raised eyebrows (or even alarm bells), but the decision to name Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services had America’s late-night comedy hosts in a tizzy. All of them except for Jimmy Fallon — he did plenty of jokes at Trump’s expense but appears to have taped before the Kennedy announcement.
RFK Jr.’s famous disdain for traditional medicine made him an out-of-left-field choice — and obvious fodder for these eight jokes…
Stephen Colbert
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“Donald Trump continued his exhaustive search for the most qualified people within his line of sight, and he has chosen anti-vaxx nepo maniac Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. I know that sounds insane, but we should all keep an open mind because that’s how the worm gets in.”
Jimmy Kimmel
“Who better to be in charge of health and humans than a guy whose brain was partially devoured by a worm?”
Seth Meyers
“In a new interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized President-elect Trump’s diet and added, ‘The stuff he eats is really, like, bad.’ Man, you know, your diet’s not good when you’re being criticized by a guy who eats literal roadkill. What’s your beef with Trump’s diet? He eats beef? He’s not getting his daily recommended allowance of raccoon?”
Stephen Colbert
“RFK Jr. is now in charge of our health. Exactly what everyone voted for. Surely this will lower the price of eggs.”
Jimmy Kimmel
“Trump originally wanted a doctor in that role. Turns out the late, great Hannibal Lector isn’t a real person.”
Stephen Colbert
“RFK Jr. spread a racist conspiracy that COVID-19 was ethnically targeted to spare Jewish and Chinese people. So good news to everyone of Chinese or Jewish descent who got COVID-19. No, you didn’t!”
Jimmy Kimmel
“This tells you all you need to know about our country right now. RFK got caught having phone sex with a reporter, and she was fired. What happened to him? They made him Secretary of Health and Human Services.”
Stephen Colbert
“Bobby Jr. has also said chemicals in the water could be turning children gay. That is insane, that is nonsense. Water does not turn a person gay. Although I got to say, Jason Momoa in Aquaman came pretty darn close.”