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- Daily Mail
RFK Jr. shares what brings Trump to tears in Tucker Carlson interview
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that the music of Luciano Pavarotti can bring President Donald Trump to tears in a wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson. The Health and Human Services Secretary was talking about his transition from being a registered Democrat to working in the Republican administration and what surprised him about working with Trump. While he qualified that Trump 'sometimes validates' the views of his enemies of being a 'bombastic narcissist,' that people are missing out on what a three-dimensional character he is. 'He cries when he hears Pavarotti,' Kennedy revealed, furthering the look into Trump's love of music by saying the opera singer moves the president. He's encyclopedic in certain areas you wouldn't expect like music and you know, he gets very emotional about music,' he added. Kennedy noted that he has also seen Trump as completely different from who he is painted as by his former party. 'Narcissists are incapable of empathy and he's one of the most empathetic people that I've met... I think he's really the uniquely right person for the country,' Kennedy said. There were still members of the Trump Cabinet that Kennedy had many profound disagreements with, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio has impressed him in particular. He even described the former Florida Senator as, 'the funniest guy in the Cabinet.' 'He says things that make people belly laugh every Cabinet meeting and he's, you know, I always, I never was very, let's say approving of Marco because he was kind of a neocon warhawk,' Kennedy said. 'But now he's had this incredible transformation, and you know, I think he's very aligned with me on most issues. On Ukraine, you know, and just the fact that we should not be the policeman of the world anymore,' he added. When asked about other members of the Cabinet, he notes that his Hollywood actress wife Cheryl Hines 'loves' Attorney General Pam Bondi and that he also gets along with her. Kennedy also pitched Carlson on 'Truth Commissions' that could allow people negatively impacted by the COVID-19 vaccine to have a platform that could see Anthony Fauci prosecuted. The secretary most recently made waves during a House hearing where he said he wants to fit all Americans with a tracking device within the next four years. He said the technology could help people lose weight and exercise more regularly, as well as, 'take control of their health' and encourage 'good judgements about their diets, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives'. In an effort to get a smartwatch, ring or monitor on every American, RFK Jr said he is planning to launch 'one of the biggest' advertising campaigns in history to encourage more people to wear the devices — which range from $99 to nearly $800. The health secretary said officials were 'exploring' how the government could pay for the devices for some Americans. It is the latest proposal in his Make America Healthy Again mission and comes amid his vow to find the cause of - and solve - the rising rates of cancer, chronic disease and autism in young people. But some commentators called the move unusual for the health secretary, who has previously railed against a 'surveillance state'. RFK Jr revealed his plans to the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday, saying: 'We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda, Making America Healthy Again. It's a way people can take control over their own health... they can see what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates and a number of other metrics as they eat. And they can begin to make good judgements about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives.'
BBC News
22 minutes ago
- BBC News
Trump imposes tougher US policy towards Cuba
US President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum which will impose a tougher policy on Cuba. The move is aimed at reversing some of the measures introduced by the Biden administration which eased US pressure on the Communist-run White House said it would enforce an existing ban on US tourism on Cuba more stringently and oppose calls by international organisations such as the UN to end the US economic embargo on Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said the memorandum "strengthens the aggression & economic blockade that punishes the whole Cuban people and is the main obstacle to our development". In a fact sheet published on its website, the White House said it would end "economic practices that disproportionately benefit the Cuban government, military, intelligence, or security agencies at the expense of the Cuban people".US citizens are already banned from travelling to Cuba solely for tourism activities but there are 12 categories of travel which are permitted, including family and educational educational visits, humanitarian projects and sports competitions. The new memorandum says compliance with the existing policy will be enforced through regular audits and "mandatory record-keeping of all travel-related transactions for at least five years".It also prohibits US citizens from doing business with GAESA, a conglomerate run by the Cuban military which owns many of Cuba's is one of the main sources of hard currency for the Cuban government, but numbers of visitors have dwindled as shortages on the Caribbean island have become more severe and several nationwide power cuts plunged it into the dark. The memorandum stresses that President Trump "is committed to fostering a free and democratic Cuba, addressing the Cuban people's long-standing suffering under a Communist regime".The policies listed in the document build on measures Trump has implemented in his first term in office and also in recent after being sworn in to a second term, Trump reinstated Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, which had been lifted just days before by the then-president, Joe Biden. Trump and his iron-fist policy towards Cuba had strong backing from the Cuban-American community in the the Trump administrations decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cubans - as well as Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans - was met with widespread disappointed by many Cuban-Americans.
The Independent
27 minutes ago
- The Independent
Musk vows to help unseat Republicans who vote for ‘big beautiful bill'
Elon Musk has pledged to financially support primary challengers against Republican lawmakers who vote for a significant bill backed by Donald Trump. Musk opposes the legislation, dubbed the "big, beautiful bill," citing concerns over insufficient spending cuts and projections of adding $3.3 trillion to the national debt. The controversial bill aims to extend 2017 tax cuts, fund a surge in mass deportation measures including 10,000 new ICE agents, and impose work requirements on Medicaid and food stamp programs. Musk's opposition reignites a past feud with Donald Trump, which previously included personal attacks and allegations related to the "Epstein Files." Despite Musk's efforts and some Republican dissent, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership are pushing the bill forward, expected to pass via budget reconciliation.
