New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended President-elect Donald Trump's right to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services on "The View" Friday, drawing consternation from the show's hosts.
"The executives will nominate and bring in those they believe will move their vision forward," Adams said when asked what he thinks about RFK Jr.'s appointment.
The embattled mayor, who has been charged in an alleged foreign bribery scheme, went on to say he disagrees with Kennedy's push to remove fluoride from drinking water. However, he voiced support for making America's food products healthier, another cause Kennedy has championed.
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"Let's be clear, we have a real problem with the food in our country. We need to watch what we're feeding our children," Adams said.
"The View" host Sunny Hostin shot back that RFK Jr. contracted a brain worm after eating pork, and pointedly asked if he should be "in charge of ... our food?"
Co-host Ana Navaro grimly predicted that there would be a "mass exodus" of federal employees after controversial Trump nominees like Kennedy took office.
"Who wants to work for a kook?" she asked.
"If we love our country, then no one individual should take us away from our mission," the mayor responded. "I dedicated my life to law enforcement, so if a new commissioner came in that I disagreed with, I was not going to say I was going to resign."
Adams concluded the exchange by saying the experts at the HHS would look at Kennedy's proposals and perform real analyses before implementing them, claiming, "It happens every day."
