Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. Has a heavy lift in his crusade to 'make America healthy again'.
The HHS secretary visited West Virginia to increase a law that prohibits certain food paint that prohibits the state on Friday.
But Kennedy played heads when he was fatigue the Republican governor of the State and presented monthly weightings.
President Donald Trump's best health officer selected Governor Patrick Morrisey after the leader of West Virginia introduced him during the event.
Kennedy explained how he got to know Morrisey early in the Trump transition when both in Palm Beach, Florida in the house of Dr. Mehmet Oz remained.
“I said to … Governor Morrisey The first time I saw him, I said,” You look like your governor ate Morrisey, “Kennedy recalled laughing.
“There was a lot of talk about getting healthy again, and I am very happy that he invited me to be his personal trainer,” the HHS secretary joked.
The crowd was told laughing and applauding.
Health and Human Service Secretary Robert Kennedy with Governor Patrick Morrisey in West Virginia during their event in Martinsburg, West Virginia on Friday 28 March
“I'm going to put him on a really rigorous regiment,” Kennedy continued. “And we're going to put him on a carnivore diet.”
Then the American top official asked the crowd if they wanted Morrisey to do a 'public weighting' once a month.
Kennedy said that when the governor lost thirty pounds, he would come back to the state to celebrate and do a public weighting with him.
“You're welcome, Denise,” Kennedy said that refer to the First Lady of West Virginia when the laughter continued.
While the HHS secretary supplied its standup routine, the governor was just a few foot distance all the time.
Morrisey was a good sport about the whole thing and said, “That could be a little more than I had negotiated.”
Kennedy's comments came after the governor made his own jokes during his speech.
Morrisey acknowledged just before Kennedy spoke that he too could use more exercise.
“I think we all know the benefits of more exercise,” he said.
“I asked secretary Kennedy to be my personal trainer,” he said about the 70-year-old Trump Cabinet Official and Fitness Fanatic, known for placing shirtless videos from him.
Morrisey even suggested that Kennedy won him as a 'large renovation project'.
While Kennedy joked about the Governor of West Virginia who made monthly public weightings during their event on Friday, Gov. Morrisey just a few feet away
Before Kennedy spoke, the governor himself joked about asking the HHS secretary to be his personal trainer
While both men were willing to have the event fun, the focus of Kennedy's visit was focused on a much more serious subject.
West Virginia has the highest obesity rate of every state in the US that Kennedy noticed in his speech.
The best health officer also said that the state of Mississippi appeared as the one with the highest chronic disease rate in the country.
On Friday, Morrisey announced a series of state health initiatives to promote healthy food and exercise in the state.
As part of the attempt to make West Virginia healthier, the state will forbid certain dyes for food from school lunches in the state.
The governor also signed a letter at the event to distance themselves to allow his state to remove soft drinks from Snap Benefit fitness, the program for Americans with a low income.
Kennedy said the state would receive the exemption.
A group of protesters gathered outside of Kennedy's event in Martinsburg, WV on March 28
Protesters held various signs outside of Kennedy's event during his first visit to West Virginia as HHS Secretary
Kennedy said that the president gave him freedom in his attempt to “make American healthy again.”
But his visit to the Bergstaat did not go without pushback, because the HHS secretary continues to be criticized for his long history as a vaccine skeptic.
While the best health official, who was the first member of the Trump cabinet that the State visited in his second term, was inside, a group of protesters who were collected outside to protest.
