Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at CNN anchor Erin Burnett, claiming she is afflicted with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” that has left her without “common sense” or “basic arithmetic.” RFK Jr., Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, was complaining about a report on “Erin Burnett OutFront” that found one of his “affordable” meal plans was far pricier than he asserted.
CNN’s Aug. 19 report about RFK Jr.’s recipe claims, by correspondent Tom Foreman, did not explicitly refer to Donald Trump.
In his report, Foreman checked out what it would cost to buy the ingredients for a meal described on RFK Jr.’s “The Real Food Show” cooking show on YouTube. While the health secretary claimed the dinner for a family of four — wild Alaskan salmon cakes with a white-bean salad — came in at just $19.64, Foreman tallied the price of the necessary groceries at a local chain store at more than three times that: $70.54.
In a post Thursday evening on X, RFK Jr. railed against CNN and Burnett over the piece.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome has so debilitated @ErinBurnett that she has abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic,” the health secretary wrote, referring to a term Trump routinely uses to describe people who criticize the president.
