NCS’s Abby Phillip has criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for copying Michelle Obama’s well being initiative, regardless of right-wingers ridiculing it on the time.
The NewsNight time host performed a clip of the well being secretary’s embarrassing workout video that includes Kennedy and MAGA singer Kid Rock exercising shirtless, plunging into ice baths, and consuming complete milk in scorching tubs, with Kennedy sporting denims all through.
“I’ve teamed up with Kid Rock to deliver two simple messages to the American people: GET ACTIVE + EAT REAL FOOD,” Kennedy posted on X whereas sharing the “Rock Out Workout.”
“But if that sounds very familiar to you, that’s because it is,” Phillip stated after taking part in the video on Wednesday night time. Phillip then referenced the previous first woman’s “Let’s Move!” web site from 2010, which additionally inspired kids to “get active and eat healthy.”
Michelle Obama’s marketing campaign aimed to assist fight childhood weight problems within the U.S. / SAUL LOEB / Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images
“Something Republicans, at least back then, took issue with,” Phillip added, earlier than taking part in clips of high-profile conservative figures round 2010 mocking Obama for basically the identical initiative Kennedy is now pushing as a part of his MAHA agenda.
“Why would you want to raise your own kids when Michelle Obama will do it for you?” Tucker Carlson stated on Fox News. “In fact, she’ll do it at gunpoint.”
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck added: “When I heard this, I thought, get your damn hands off my fries, lady. If I want to be a fat, fat, fatty and shovel french fries all day long, that is my choice.”
Another clip confirmed former Iowa Rep. Steve King saying he needed the “nanny state out of my life, and I don’t want my body commandeered” by solutions that folks ought to regulate their well being.
“Look, they’re both right, but will conservatives and Republicans ever admit that they were wrong to lampoon Michelle Obama for basically common sense?” Phillip requested NewsNight time panelist Xochitl Hinojosa.
“Absolutely not,” replied Hinojosa, who beforehand served as communications director for the Democratic National Committee.
Screenshots of the horrific exercise video that includes shirtless RFK Jr. and Kid Rock working out and rinking milk. / Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Department of Health and Human Services
“I think that Michelle Obama’s initiative was geared toward families and children, making sure people are active and eating healthy. This RFK video, or whatever this is, was an arrogance undertaking,” Hinojosa added.
“It wasn’t about anyone eating healthy. It was not even geared toward our kids. Honestly, I think it was geared toward Olivia Nuzzi at this point.”
RFK Jr. denied the allegations surrounding his relationship with Olivia Nuzzi. / STEFANI REYNOLDS / Stefani Reynolds / AFP through Getty Images
Nuzzi, a former Daily Beast reporter, was fired from New York journal after it was revealed she had a relationship with RFK Jr. throughout his 2024 presidential marketing campaign, though it was “never physical.”
Nuzzi was additionally let go from her role as West Coast editor at Vanity Fair in December 2025 after additional salacious particulars emerged in regards to the professionally unethical relationship.