Dr. Oz agrees to stop promoting health and wellness products if confirmed, Trump transition says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News/AP

December 6, 2024, 4:44 PM


Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor picked by President-elect Donald Trump to oversee the country's Medicare and Medicaid programs, has agreed to stop promoting health and wellness products if confirmed by the Senate, according to a spokesperson for the Trump transition.

Likewise, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who recently raised eyebrows by appearing on his wife's social media account apparently showering naked in the background while she promoted her beauty line – also has agreed to disclose his finances and undergo a federal ethics review if confirmed as health secretary, said spokesperson Katie Miller.

"Both Mr. Kennedy and Dr. Oz plan to divest where appropriate and fully cooperate with the Office of Government of Ethics," Miller told ABC News. Whether Trump's nominees planned to follow traditional ethics rules that have governed Washington policymakers for decades had been an open question.

Trump has picked several billionaires to lead his Cabinet, while Kennedy and Oz promoted wellness companies in new online posts even after being named as part of the incoming administration. Experts say it's still possible for any nominee to try to test the bounds of ethics rules.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dr-oz-agrees-stop-promoting-health-wellness-products/story?id=116525334

[speak easy]

1. and Hegseth says he will stop drinking

[Roy Rolling]

4. You read my mind!

“I promise not to sell snake oil, or swag booze like that other 🤡 nominee.”

[Scrivener7]

12. The trump team is actually a rehab program! They're all going to give up their addictions!

[vapor2]

22. Good one but he still owns stock in Medicare Advantage companies

[FalloutShelter]

27. Sure is a lot of pinkie swearing going on.

[duncang]

2. Why is he stopping?

I mean really why would tfg’s team care. Tfg isn’t going to stop sales of anything. In reality if anything happens they will transfer over stuff to their spouses. Oz may not make ads but I’m sure he will help companies like his to sell even more quack medicine.

[Skittles]

5. exactly what I was thinking

Trump and his entire grifting family never stop their bullshit.

[tanyev]

15. They're saying they will stop to help them get confirmed.

Once confirmed, they’ll reconsider their options.

[KatyaR]

16. Because nobody's supposed to make money off the grift except TFG.

nt

[RockRaven]

3. His word means nothing, totally worthless.

What value is there in a promise from a lying, grifting, corrupt snake oil salesman who has turned to politics? FFS.

[Skittles]

6. can't tell if you are referring to Trump or Oz

[moniss]

7. He may not promote them but he will

steer policy and programs in ways that benefit the corporations financially.

[Karasu]

8. Yet Trump won't stop selling fucking cologne. Musk won't relinquish his control of Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX...

...to participate in his fucking fantasy austerity "department." There are like 14 billionaires in this cabinet who ain't giving up shit when it comes to their outside interests, so why do emoluments/conflicts matter in this ONE case and no other?

Back when Trump was "elected" in 2016, the very first thing the GOP did was dismiss the emoluments clause so he could take office. I knew in that very instant that was just the beginning of all this precedent-breaking, norm-destroying bullshit, and it's only snowballed from there.

[Mike Nelson]

9. Odd...

... why would he stop? Trump still hawks his business... well, I guess "Dr Oz" will find ways to make far bigger bucks. How about sleeping potion spokesperson Mike Hucklabee? Will he continue to sell the sleeping pills, or will he get a bigger contract?

[Raven123]

10. BS. He will use his official office to do what he did on TV.

What a load of cr@p

[Godot51]

11. Unfortunately...

... the damage has already been done. Any product, method or technique this "Oz" has promoted, shilled or sold would be give a greater authenticity if he were to hold an official position.

Too many would be likely to believe his previous positions or lies if he is given a position in charge of such important programs, Medicare and Medicaid, for the poor, the elderly and the middle class.

Oz doesn't deserve such a position, like trump he's a simple medicine show salesman.

[chowder66]

13. But does he pinky-swear?

[C_U_L8R]

14. He'll be too busy ripping off seniors

If not fucking things up through sheer incompetence and inexperience.

[AlexSFCA]

17. Wouldn't surgeon general be more appropriate role for him?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Since CMS manages pay-outs

that equals "business" to the GOP, and thus apparently needing a (schlock) "businessman" to run the thing.

The Surgeon General isn't operating anything really "financial".

45 already nominated a "TV Doctor" - Janette Nesheiwat - for Surgeon General.

(as a sidenote, I remember when CMS was HCFA - Health Care Finance Administration - then was changed to the "Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)" under Shrub)

[tinymontgomery]

18. If anyone believes these people I have a bridge to sell you! n/t

[radical noodle]

20. Grifters gotta grift

It never stops, they just find another way to do it.

[Picaro]

21. The President-elect is still hawking random crap

Guitars Bibles Basketball shoes NFTs

We’re so far past unseemly now.

Why should Oz feel compelled not to hawk shit?

In end stage capitalism everything is for sale.

[Sneederbunk]

23. Quackery will be put on the shelf?

[Mr.Bill]

24. So this is where Trump has brought us.

Expecting credit by promising to do something that is normal and ethical.

[republianmushroom]

25. Yup, a snake oil salesmen.

[choie]

26. And trump will stop grifting.

[Solly Mack]

28. The 12 Steps Cabinet.

[dchill]

29. But will he swear on a stack of crudit from Wegmans?

[Swede]

30. That's mighty white of him.

nt

[malthaussen]

31. Who cares what they say? They're a pack of liars. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

32. We will stop being criminals, scammers, drug addicts, rapists if we get the job.

Sure.

[sakabatou]

33. Riiiiiight...

[Initech]

34. And people actually believe him? Wow.

If you believe him, I've got a nice can of snake oil to sell you!

[MissouriDem47]

35. Why Would He do That?

Trump's wife is still out there advertising her Christmas ornaments. Trump, even though the election is over is still begging for money. Why should he have to give up his side hustle since haven't and will not stop theirs?

[Grokenstein]

36. "Give me ultimate power and I promise I'll be a good boy."

"Really, really. Cross my heart and hope you di--I mean, hope to die."

[keepthemhonestO]

37. What

Difference will that make when you have trump and everyone else raping the programs they are in charge of, he might as well grift with the rest.

[turbinetree]

38. I got a friggin bridge.............hasn't been built yet................but I got a bridge.............

JFC.............

[SWBTATTReg]

39. Too late. When I discovering that he was hocking stuff right and left, I lost ALL interest in ever listening to

him.

He now reminds me of those 1 hour long, sales presentations that they try to camo as being a medical discussion when instead, it's just an hour-long sales hype.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

40. Dr. Oz needs to agree to stop lying.....

along with thousands of other TFG cohorts.....

[Aussie105]

41. Once again,

there is an assumption that adopting the title will engender the recipient with enhanced morals, a new approach to life, and enhanced intelligence.

It's a false assumption Republicans practise every day.

An alcoholic given an important position will just drink more.

A snake oil salesman given an important position will just try to sell more snake oil.

And a nutcase will just drink more unpasteurised milk.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. Dr. Oz owns over $500,000 in UnitedHealth Group stock, the largest Medicare Advantage insurer.

This is a real conflict and Oz needs to divest

Link to tweet

[Callie1979]

44. I'd bet most of Congress owns a lot of that stock.

[Callie1979]

43. Now aint that nice of him?

[Scarlet Begalas]

45. Oz's "Promises"

I'm sure Oz's "promises" will be just as meaningful as promises made by any other soon-to-be--officials in the upcomingTrump administration. IOW, they're worthless.