Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who once flexed his disdain for Donald Trump and his base of “belligerent idiots,” stressed on Saturday that he “drank the Kool-Aid,” and the president wasn’t as “ill-informed” as he once believed.In remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Kennedy claimed Trump has “encyclopedic, molecular knowledge” across a “wide range of very, very eclectic interests” before recalling a time the two dined on McDonald’s aboard his plane during the 2024 campaign.“We started talking about Syria and he got a placemat and he turned it on its back and then he took a Sharpie and drew a perfect map of the Mid East,” said Kennedy of Trump, who claimed that he “never wrote a picture” in his life last year while denying that he gave a racy 2003 birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.Kennedy continued, “Then he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about him.”He added that Trump has an “extraordinary depth of knowledge” about what’s happening in each agency alongside an “instinct for making good choices” before concluding that the president is better than his uncle, John F. Kennedy, at understanding the use of power in the White House.Trump has a record of mixing up names of people and places over the years, adding to behavior that has left health experts and former Trump officials concerned over his cognitive fitness.RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T23:43:26.526ZSocial media users swiftly clowned Kennedy over his Trump story, with one user on X calling out the health secretary over his “asinine BS” and another writing that it’s “genuinely crazy to watch the North Korean level hero worship manifest in real time.”Lolol. I can’t stop laughing at this asinine BS. The fact that RFK Jr feels the need to make up this garbage in a desperate attempt to make Trump seem competent just proves how bad things are. https://t.co/aGAybtVmyj— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) March 29, 2026knowledge of the middle east's geography is literally the least thing a president should know. it's like geopolitics 101. this is not impressive. https://t.co/JTgEkmzxa9— mpls molly (@mollywidstrom) March 29, 2026A reminder that just two years ago RFK was a Democrat who was comparing Trump to Hitler and now he sits at CPAC as a loyal sycophant making up absurd stories to praise Dear Leader Trump and keep his job. https://t.co/q0wcYGEPny— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 29, 2026Close