MAHA Moms Are Mad That RFK Jr. Now Supports Big Poison

Less than 24 hours after Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. out-sycophanted himself by endorsing a poisonous substance he’d previously condemned—all because Trump suddenly deemed it necessary for national security—it appears the chickens are coming home to roost, en masse. 

As Splinter’s Jim Vorel wrote on Thursday, for decades now, Kennedy had been anti-glyphosate, a weed killer that’s been long labeled by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as “probably carcinogenic,” and a prominent subject in multiple lawsuits alleging exposure causes cancer. Ahead of his appointment as HHS secretary, Kennedy tweeted in June 2024 that it was “one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic,” and vowed to ban its use on the country’s wheat crops. But this week, he pivoted from that stance and MAHA women can’t fathom a man in power suddenly turning on their morals, beliefs, and words to maintain their power.

“I can’t envision a bigger middle finger to every MAHA mom than this,” Ken Cook, the president of Environmental Working Group, an organization that focuses on toxic chemicals and pesticides, said in a statement following RFK’s pivot. “If anyone still wondered whether ‘Make America Healthy Again’ was a genuine commitment to protecting public health or a scam, today’s decision answers that question.” 

Speaking to the New York Times, the MAHA moms who once embraced Kennedy’s health-is-wealth movement said they’re angry—and told the outlet that his sudden endorsement of carcinogens could cost the administration big-time in the upcoming midterms—which is already looking more and more precarious for the GOP’s slim 218-214 House and 53-45 Senate trifecta.

And further compromising food safety is particular self-sabotage for Kennedy, whose new dietary guidelines were the most popular part of MAHA, if anything ever was. (The other part being, that is, to roll back vaccines.) Shortly after Kennedy issued a statement saying Trump’s executive order would benefit “our defense readiness and our food supply,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)—who’s repeatedly broken ranks with his party—announced on Twitter that he’s introducing a House Bill to undo the order, called the “No Immunity for Glyphosate Act.” 

“Women feel like they were lied to, that MAHA movement is a sham,” Alex Clark, a health and wellness podcaster for the conservative group Turning Point U.S.A., told the NYT. “How am I supposed to rally these women to vote red in the midterms? How can we win their trust back? I am unsure if we can.” 

Plenty of room over here, ladies. 

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