RFK Jr.’s Junk Food Moment: When MAHA Meets Meh

Our anti-processed food crusader just endorsed chicken bacon ranch pasta. The revolution will not be dietitian-approved.

Nothing quite says “authentic populist health warrior” like touring a processed food factory in Oklahoma and gushing about French toast sticks. But that’s exactly what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — scion of America’s most storied political dynasty and current Secretary of Health and Human Services — did this week, in what can only be described as the most spectacular own-goal in the annals of public health theater.

Picture it: Kennedy, the man who built his “Make America Healthy Again” brand by railing against Big Food’s chemical soup, standing in a sterile facility praising Mom’s Meals for their “additive-free” offerings. The irony was so thick you could serve it with a side of high-fructose corn syrup. Which, incidentally, you probably could find in those very meals he was championing.

This is not your garden-variety political gaffe. This is Marie Antoinette territory — except instead of “let them eat cake,” it’s “let them eat ultraprocessed chicken bacon ranch pasta while I lecture them ab…