WHAT'S IN A NAME

Trump Makes Dig at Democrats for Not Cheering for a Kennedy

“With the name ‘Kennedy’ you would’ve thought everybody over here would have been cheering,” Trump said, gesturing to Democrats.

Donald Trump attempted to knock Democrats for their opposition to vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., commenting during his speech to Congress Tuesday that his name alone should make him more popular. Trump was introducing Kennedy when, after a round of applause, he gestured towards Democrats and said, “with the name ‘Kennedy’ you would’ve thought everybody over here would have been cheering. How quickly they forget.” In the last few months, many of Kennedy’s relatives openly opposed not only to his initial presidential candidacy, but his nomination to lead the the Department of Health and Human Services, saying his political ambitions were doing a disservice to his name. “I think if my dad were alive today, the real Robert Kennedy would have detested almost everything Donald Trump represents,” his sister, Kerry Kerry, said last August after he dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump. “I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump.”