Trump, RFK Jr. tout public health overhaul in wake of MAHA report

President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Thursday held an event vowing a major public health overhaul following the release of the "MAHA report", which pointed to over-prescription of pharmaceuticals, processed foods, and a lack of physical activity for the state of American health.

"Four months ago, I created the Presidential Commission to make America healthy again, and today, the Commission officially delivers its first report on childhood health," Trump said. "Here are just some of the alarming findings, and they really are alarming, unbelievable, terrible. More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition."

"Since the 1970 rates of childhood cancer have soared in many cases by nearly 50% five oh, 50% Well, in the 1960s less than 5% of the children were obese," he went on. "Now, over 20% are obese. A few decades ago, one in one think of this one. This is, to me, the one that gets me every time, and it seems to be getting worse. Just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism today, it's one in 31."

Kennedy, for his part, touted Trump's willingness to confront major industry leaders and oppose them in policy.

"I've never seen a president, Democrat or Republican that is willing to stand up to industry when it's the right thing to do, and the willing, willing to talk about really difficult issues and to hold his stand on those issues. I've never seen anything like it, and I'm very, very grateful too," Kennedy said. "I've sat in with industry again and again, in a room with him, and heard him say, we can't do that."

"We're going to do something different, deliver news that they didn't want to hear. Oh, I'm grateful to this. This is a milestone there's never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this," he went on.

The report itself made a litany of recommendations for monitoring the state of public health, the implementation of vaccines and various drugs, expansion of safety testing, and a multitude of others.