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Not just poor governance – intentionally sinister.
The man RFK Jr. hired to be the public voice of “Make America Healthy Again” just quit.
Rich Danker resigned as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at HHS on Wednesday citing irreconcilable differences with an effort to advance e-cigarette flavors that could cause children to become addicted. He wrote directly to President Trump: “Senior HHS officials in the immediate office of the secretary have in recent months sought FDA marketing approval of cigarette flavors that would appeal to children and expose them to nicotine addiction, lung damage and higher risk of cancer.”
He is the second HHS spokesperson to resign in protest in fourteen months. The first quit over RFK’s handling of the measles outbreak. This one quit because the Department of Health and Human Services — the agency whose entire mandate is protecting American public health — is internally lobbying the FDA to approve candy-flavored nicotine products targeted at children.
Last week the FDA approved blueberry and mango flavored nicotine vaping pods — the first fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes ever authorized on the American market.
Blueberry. Mango. For your kids.
Let’s be precise about what happened here. The FDA Commissioner — Marty Makary — resigned the day before Danker over the same issue. The chief spokesperson resigned the day after. Two senior officials in the health apparatus of the United States government chose to give up their jobs rather than be associated with approving candy-flavored nicotine delivery systems for the youth market.
And the administration approved them anyway.
This is the same administration that appointed RFK Jr. — who built his entire public identity on protecting children from toxins, chemicals, and corporate capture of public health — to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The same administration that launched MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — as its signature children’s health brand. The same administration that has spent sixteen months cutting PEPFAR, gutting Medicaid, defunding school nutrition programs, and eliminating the CDC’s environmental health division.
The pattern is not complicated. Every time this administration is forced to choose between children’s health and a corporate revenue stream, it chooses the revenue stream. Every time.
Mango vapes are not a health policy. They are a product approval for an industry that spent thirty years watching tobacco kill millions, rebranded as “vaping,” and has been waiting for this administration to open the youth market it needs to replace the customers its predecessor products killed.
The company that makes the approved products — Glas Inc. — says it will prevent children from purchasing them through age verification including checking government IDs and Bluetooth smartphone connection.
They are named after glass. They taste like mango. They require a smartphone to verify age. And the Secretary of Health’s own spokesperson just told the President of the United States in writing that they will cause children to become addicted.
The administration approved them anyway.
The President really does hate our kids. It seems he always has. The flavor this week is mango.
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