Meet the Trump Nominees Selling Vitamins on the Side - WSJ
President-elect Donald Trump’s top political appointees want you to buy supplements.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, Trump’s pick for surgeon general, sells her own line of vitamins. Kash Patel, Trump’s choice to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, recommended pills on Truth Social in February that he said could “rid your body of the harms” from Covid-19 vaccines.
Mehmet Oz, the TV personality whom Trump named to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, promotes supplements sold by online retailer iHerb. He has advertised multivitamins, supplements for “brain power” and fish-oil pills that he said “probably slowed” the progression of his mother’s Alzheimer’s disease. Doctors and public-health experts said close ties between Trump’s nominees and supplement makers could give more leeway to an industry that is lightly regulated and sells products that are largely unproven.
“The striking number of nominees with interest in the supplement industry speaks to a hostility to conventional scientific thought,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition-and-health advocacy group. That hostility helped Trump win re-election. “Crunchy moms,” wellness enthusiasts and Americans across the political spectrum have lost faith in the medical establishment and want more control of their own health.
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Kennedy is a longtime critic of the pharmaceutical industry and has questioned the safety of vaccines, fluoride in drinking water and processed foods. The 70-year-old, who has shared videos on social media of himself working out bare-chested, said on a podcast in 2023 that he takes “a ton of vitamins and nutrients.”
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