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President-elect Donald Trump nominated two additional former Fox News personalities to his administration on Friday night.
Trump announced he is nominating former Fox contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as Surgeon General. Nesheiwat is a medical director at CityMD, a group of urgent care facilities in New York and New Jersey.
“Dr. Nesheiwat is a fierce advocate and strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health,” Trump said in a statement. “She is committed to ensuring that Americans have access to affordable, quality healthcare, and believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives.”
Politico noted that Nesheiwat has supported vaccines that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cast doubt on. Trump nominated Kennedy as Secretary of Health and Human Services. She has also been critical of the government’s guidance on Covid-19 and has cautioned against young patients getting the vaccine against it.
The president-elect also said he is nominating former Fox contributor Dr. Marty Makary to serve as head of the Food and Drug Administration, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services.
“FDA has lost the trust of Americans, and has lost sight of its primary goal as a regulator,” Trump said in a statement. “The Agency needs Dr. Marty Makary, a Highly Respected Johns Hopkins Surgical Oncologist and Health Policy Expert, to course•correct and refocus the Agency. He will work under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr to, among other things, properly evaluate harmful chemicals poisoning our Nation’s food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our Nation’s youth, so that we can finally address the Childhood Chronic Disease Epidemic.”
Makary is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and was one of Fox News’s go-to resources on Covid-19, even though he specializes in oncology and laparoscopy, not virology or epidemiology. Makary has been a booster of Kennedy. On Fox Business last week, Makary wildly claimed that Kennedy is “not a controversial figure.”
The FDA is responsible for ensuring the safety of the country’s food supply, medicines, vaccines, medical devices, and other products.
Trump has nominated former Fox talent for other posts, most notably former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. The president-elect picked former Fox Business host Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation. Former Fox News weekend host Mike Huckabee was tapped to be ambassador to Israel, and Former Fox News contributor Tulsi Gabbard was nominated as Director of National Intelligence.
Also on Friday night, Trump announced he selected former Fox News contributor Sebastian Gorka for a key White House counterterrorism post.
