This is wild.
New Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a picture of himself Sunday grinning while holding up a lizard next to scandal-scarred actor Russell Brand and a shirtless 64-year-old Dr. Mehmet Oz.
“Northern Curly Tailed Lizard with Russel Brand & Dr Oz,” Kennedy, 71, wrote next to the image.
The Northern Curly Tailed Lizard is native to Cuba, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas but was later brought to Palm Beach Florida in the 1940s.
Kennedy had just been sworn in as HHS secretary on Thursday.
President Trump also has tapped Oz, who he previously backed in the TV doctor’s unsuccessful 2022 Senate bid, to serve as the administrator for the national Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Brand, 49, a comedian and actor who starred in the flick remake of “Arthur,” has been accused of multiple sex crimes although he has not been charged in any of them and has denied the allegations.
At one point, he had been an activist for many progressive causes and praised Kennedy during his 2024 independent bid for the presidency. Brand later pushed his followers to back Trump.
Kennedy has long cultivated a reputation for his escapades with wildlife.
Over the summer, he publicly disclosed that he dumped the carcass of a bear cub in Central Park more than a decade ago as part of an elaborate public prank.
The Kennedy scion claimed to have found the dead bear cub during his drive through Goshen, NY, for a falconing trip.
His daughter, Kathleen Kennedy, also revealed that when she was 6, her dad cut off the head of a dead whale on the beach and strapped it to the roof of their minivan for a five-hour drive home.
“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,” she said in a 2012 interview with Town and Country magazine.
Vanity Fair also reported on a photo of Kennedy chowing away at a barbecued carcass of an animal, which a veterinarian claimed was a dog. Kennedy insisted the animal was a goat.
Kennedy faced a bruising confirmation process through the Senate, with even some Republicans apprehensive about him, given his track record on opposing vaccines.
Ultimately, he got confirmed with just one GOP defection — Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
