{"id":13014,"date":"2026-04-30T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/casey-means-exit-as-surgeon-general-nominee-a-reflection-of-trump-and-rfk-jr-s-poor-judgment-dangerous-views-protect-our-care\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:23:42","slug":"casey-means-exit-as-surgeon-general-nominee-a-reflection-of-trump-and-rfk-jr-s-poor-judgment-dangerous-views-protect-our-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/casey-means-exit-as-surgeon-general-nominee-a-reflection-of-trump-and-rfk-jr-s-poor-judgment-dangerous-views-protect-our-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Means\u2019 Exit As Surgeon General Nominee a Reflection of Trump and RFK Jr.\u2019s Poor Judgment, Dangerous Views &#8211; Protect Our Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington D.C. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 With Donald Trump\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/trump-pulls-casey-means-nomination-general-replacement-nicole-saphier-rcna261423\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unceremonious announcement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Casey Means has been replaced as his nominee for Surgeon General, Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care\u2019s Public Health Project, issued the following statement:\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDonald Trump and RFK Jr. desperately wanted an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectourcare.org\/hearing-watch-trump-surgeon-general-nom-casey-means-is-dangerously-unqualified-conflicted-and-hostile-toward-ivf\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unqualified, science-denying grifter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be the nation\u2019s leading public health educator, perhaps after looking in the mirror. No one pushed harder for Means\u2019 nomination than fellow anti-vax charlatan RFK Jr., which is more of a reflection of his own incompetence and lack of qualifications that have put public health at risk every day.\u00a0 If the third Surgeon General nominee this term is indeed the charm, it\u2019s critical she follows her medical training \u2013 not RFK Jr.\u2019s fact-free anti-vax whims &#8212; and strongly advocates for proven safe and effective vaccines and sound science.\u00a0 With the megaphone of Surgeon General, Dr. Saphier could do much to help reverse the downward trend in vaccination rates that RFK Jr. has encouraged with misinformation, that is, if Donald Trump would even allow it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><br \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\u00a9 2026 Protect Our Care. All Rights Reserved. | <a href=\"\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxNN1lKTVpSTG8tbVYwbkRTekU1aUQwSmM5XzdEbmItUUdHMXViQnhMRWJ3TFpKNG01Q0pLZm8yU1M1V3dYWDZtbUZiRDhQdHZKcVNoeEVjVjh5WU4yZktCVHFjZ0VsNkFuaHI5VnlaQllSRE1Hd25QV2RQZGEteTR6T2pCbW9iQWdSQVAxM3otckZoYlFIeVpyUFJyQUxIUVF4UHVsUmthY1hmTTJ3S2ZEVzdjTkxNSndIOG9MQTZnTzNya3hCSGE2T1pPbUtlaGd0Q3lhbHZHSQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. \u2013 With Donald Trump\u2019s unceremonious announcement that Casey Means has been replaced as his nominee for Surgeon General, Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care\u2019s Public Health Project, issued the following statement:\u00a0\u201cDonald Trump and RFK Jr. desperately wanted an unqualified, science-denying grifter to be the nation\u2019s leading public health educator, perhaps after looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}