Megyn Expresses Concern Over Doanld Trump’s Surgeon General Pick and Her Views on COVID

With a flurry of nominations late Friday, Donald Trump’s cabinet is complete. It is not an overstatement to call it one of the most ideologically diverse cabinets ever assembled, and then there are the non-cabinet appointments that have been equally buzzworthy. 

I was thrilled to see Trump pick John Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary, MD, to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Of course, I love Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who will be overseeing all of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) if he gets confirmed. And then you have the nominee for surgeon general, Janette Nesheiwat, MD, for whom I have more questions.

Her Background

Dr. Nesheiwat is the medical director of CityMD, a network of urgent care centers in New York and New Jersey, a Fox News contributor, and the sister-in-law of Rep. Michael Waltz (i.e. Trump’s pick for national security advisor). I will bet you dollars to donuts that this guy said, ‘Take her. Take her,’ because running CityMD is and going to medical school in the Caribbean does not necessarily make you the most obvious person for the job.

I know, I know. You can say I am elitist. But let’s face it, those programs are generally not where our best doctors come from. Medical schools outside of the U.S. are a lot easier to get into and tend to have different standards. To be fair, it is not like she is going to be operating on people. She is the chief spokesperson, so her time on Fox News may have convinced Trump she can do it.

Her Stance on COVID

She is very pro-Trump, but I don’t really care about that stuff so much as I care about the fact that she loves masking. She also loved the COVID vaccine. She loved to mask the children long into the pandemic – past the point where the rest of us were saying, ‘Stop that.’ She also advocated for getting children under the age of 12 vaxed.

Back in June 2021, she was downplaying the risk of myocarditis in kids who get the vaccine. In October 2021, she said the risks for kids getting the COVID jab are extremely low. In January 2022, she was still promoting all the boosters, and the vaccines, and masks and how beneficial they are. 

The point is, she didn’t see through any of it. Even Marty Makary was pro some of this stuff in the beginning, but he came around. At the same time Nesheiwat was calling for more masking during an interview with Pete Hegseth on Fox News in August 2021, Makary was writing an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal making the case against masks for children.

They are very different. Either you see the evidence and you can be a leader on it, or you don’t and you can’t. People who got COVID that wrong should not be in charge of the next generation of our health officials or spokespeople. Based on what I have seen, I am not in favor of this person at all. I’m against it. Sorry, but I am.

You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 953 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.