A message of encouragement following the announcement of his appointment. French basketball player Rudy Gobert, pivot of the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise, on Thursday gave his support to Donald Trump’s future Minister of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Let’s go, @RobertKennedyJr”, published on the social network X the Olympic vice-champion, referring to the profile of the nephew of the former President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
This former environmental law lawyer with no scientific training forged an improbable alliance with the 78-year-old tribune by giving up being an independent presidential candidate. He has propagated conspiracy theories, both about Covid-19 vaccines and alleged links between vaccination and autism.
He denounced an “ethnically targeted” virus
During the health crisis, Robert F. Kennedy Jr became one of the figures of American anti-vaxxers, notably with this controversial outing, where he estimated that Covid was an “ethnically targeted virus”, which had been “designed to attack Caucasians and blacks” while “the most immune people are Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese”.
Trying to reassure, the eccentric member of the Kennedy dynasty recently maintained in interviews that he “would not take away anyone’s vaccines.” While adding that he would ensure that “Americans are well informed” on the issue.
He calls for an end to the addition of fluoride to running water, although it is considered a great health success in the fight against dental caries. “RFK” Jr wants to fight against junk food and is for a right to abortion stopping at the viability of the fetus (around 24 weeks). This elusive personality, addicted to heroin in his youth, recounted having abandoned the corpse of a bear cub in Central Park in New York and one day having to have a worm removed from his brain.
Gobert criticized for a tasteless joke at the start of the pandemic
Rudy Gobert has, for the moment, not gone further than his message of support. He did not respond to the many Internet users who questioned him about the reasons for this publication on the social network.
The 32-year-old Frenchman was caught at the start of the health crisis in 2020. At a press conference, the French international had fun touching the microphones placed in front of him after answering a question about Covid-19. Problem: he tested positive for Covid-19 two days later, becoming patient zero in the NBA. He then apologized for his actions.
The massive interior (2.16 m) had so far not commented on the 2024 presidential election. In 2018, he attacked Donald Trump, who was then serving his first term in the White House, when the latter described Haiti or certain African states as “shithole countries” during a meeting with parliamentarians. “The fact that I left France to come and realize my dream here makes France shit? Or does this only apply to African countries? Being paid to divide people really seems like a shitty job,” he said on what was still called Twitter at the time.
