WASHINGTON — This is hiss-terical.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a wild video Tuesday of himself wrangling two black racer snakes while his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, begged him to be careful.
Both snakes, which are not poisonous, repeatedly lurched at Kennedy in an attempt to bite while a grinning cabinet member proudly showed them off to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife.
“Those are dangerous,” Hines pleaded with Kennedy, who seemed unfazed by her warnings. “Honey, honey, let them go.”
“Bobby, please. Bobby, please. Bobby, Bobby, please.”
Kennedy did not appear to heed the distressed pleadings of his wife, continuing to toy with the snakes while grinning from ear to ear.
It’s unclear what happened to the snakes after the HHS boss captured them at one of Oz’s beachfront properties.
The video marked the Kennedy scion’s latest chaotic encounter with wild animals, with which he has avery long and storied history.
Just last month, it emerged that RFK Jr. once pulled his family’s car to the side of the highway to chop the penis off a road-killed raccoon for future studies. It’s not entirely clear what about the trash panda’s genitalia he wanted to study.
When asked about the X-rated animal encounter, Kennedy simply laughed.
RFK Jr.’s daughter, Kick, has also recalled how, during her childhood, a dead whale washed up on shore at Squaw Island in the Finger Lakes. A wild-eyed Kennedy then raced to the beach with his chainsaw to cut off its head, which he strapped to the roof of the family vehicle — once again, for his personal studies.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recounted to Town & Country magazine.
During Kennedy’s 2024 presidential bid, accusations emerged that an image from the early 2000s showed him devouring a roasted dog carcass, which he insisted was actually a dead goat.
The HHS boss has been adamant that, despite his famous carnivore diet and affection for juicy meat of all types, he would never eat human or dog flesh.
Last year, Kennedy’s cousin, former first daughter Caroline Kennedy, informed lawmakers that he would grind up baby chicks and mice in a blender to make food for his hawks, decrying his dorm room as “a perverse scene of despair and violence.”
Perhaps the most eccentric of all the HHS secretary’s animal dealings emerged in 2024, when he publicly copped to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park and attempting to make it look as though the fury beast had been slain in a bicycle accident.
His actions had terrorized local New Yorkers, who were puzzled and alarmed that a dead bear wound up in the park. Kennedy remained quiet about his role in the panic until New York magazine uncovered it, after which he explained that he stumbled upon the dead cub during a falconing trip in Goshen, NY
Initially, RFK Jr. assured the woman who had hit the bear cub with her car that he had the situation under control. He intended to put the carcass in his freezer and skin it, but ultimately opted to get rid of it instead.
Kennedy later posted photos of himself posing with the bloody, dead bear cub and pretending that it was biting his hand off.
