Former president Donald Trump appeared to share Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long-held vaccine skepticism and urged the independent presidential candidate to do something “big” with him during a [July 14] phone call, video of which was posted online by Bobby Kennedy III, the independent candidate’s son.
It was not immediately clear what Trump meant by doing something big. His campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the video — which Bobby Kennedy III shared on X before removing it — Trump said that “something’s wrong with that whole system” while speaking of vaccines.
“When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a, you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby,” Trump said at one point. He suggested that babies can later “change radically.”
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In the now-deleted post in which he shared the footage, Bobby Kennedy III — who has said he supports his father’s presidential campaign — wrote that he is a “firm believer that these sorts of conversations should be had in public.”
“Here’s Trump giving his real opinion to my dad about vaccinating kids — this was the day after the assassination attempt,” Bobby Kennedy III wrote. “… This is not a cheapfake or somebody doing a Trump voice. This is the real deal.”
