Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted he “drank the Kool-Aid” about President Donald Trump and has learned he is the “exact opposite” of what he first thought.
In an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services spoke about perceptions versus reality when it comes to Trump.
“President Trump is exactly the opposite of everything that I believed him to be,” Kennedy told moderator Mercedes Schlapp.
RFK JR: President Trump is exactly the opposite of everything I believed him to be. I basically drank the Kool-Aid—that he was this bombastic narcissist who didn’t read books and was ill-informed.
But now I know the exact opposite. He’s the opposite of a narcissist—he’s an… pic.twitter.com/vbnQHu6TxO
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 28, 2026
“I admit I basically drank the Kool-Aid that he was this bombastic narcissist that didn’t read books [and] was ill-informed. And now I know the exact opposite,” Kennedy said. “He’s the opposite of a narcissist; he’s an empath.”
The HHS secretary, who received a rousing welcome at the conservative event in Texas, pointed to the Russia-Ukraine War as an example.
“You’ll see that every time he talks about the Ukraine war, he talks about the casualties on both sides,” he said. “You will not hear any Democrat ever talk about that. And he talks about the Russian kids who are dying. He gets the reports every week, and they make a huge impression on him about the death rate.”
Kennedy continued his assessment of Trump as he spoke of the president’s handling of the current war with Iran.
“One time, he grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East,” he recounted. “Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.”
🚨 BREAKING: Sec. RFK Jr. reveals just how intelligent President Trump really is behind the scenes pic.twitter.com/co0KasZyPe
“One time, he grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a PERFECT map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 28, 2026
Schlapp asked Kennedy what his father, former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, who were both assassinated, would think of his support of a Republican president.
“I think that if they were around today, that they would be making the same kind of choices that President Trump is, about Iran, about Ukraine, about trying to raise up the middle class,” Kennedy said.
🚨 RFK Jr. draws comparisons between Trump’s policies and what he believes past Democrats stood for.
“I think if my father and uncle were around today, they would be making the same kinds of choices that President Trump is making.”pic.twitter.com/YH9qRleNKd
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) March 29, 2026
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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