Kennedy posted a video to his social media displaying what occurred when he got here throughout a pair of black racer snakes whereas visiting Dr. Mehmet Oz in Palm Seaside, Florida.
The 72-year-old seemed completely giddy as he cornered the non-venomous snakes towards a wall earlier than bending over and snatching them up.
The captured critters slithered wildly, attempting to interrupt free, however to no avail. The snakes could have been further peeved if Dr. Oz’s evaluation that they have been “having s–” was true.
Kennedy smiled as he held up his newest animal trophies, whereas Hines tried to curb her enthusiasm at his conquest.
“Okay, okay, honey, allow them to go,” a panicked Hines yelled. “Bobby, please! Bobby, Bobby, please!” she continued in horror because the secretary confirmed off his new prizes.
As Kennedy tried to regulate his grip on the snakes, considered one of them bit him, which he merely laughed off. Nevertheless, critics on-line have been greater than a bit rattled.
“I such as you, Bobby, however absolutely you will have extra sense than this,” one particular person remarked on X. “Posting one other odd animal encounter whilst you’re hanging out on former Oprah operative [Mehmet] Oz’s oceanfront villa, whereas gasoline is over $5 and grocery payments are up 30 p.c.”
One other particular person snarked, “He needs to be cool like [Steve] Irwin was however he’s not.”
One particular person identified, “Throw them over the wall, within the ocean, something. However cease holding them whereas they hold biting.”
One other consumer bashed, “A snake oil salesman eradicating snakes. Oh, the irony.”
As Radar beforehand reported, the HHS Secretary additionally has an odd historical past of snatching up roadkill and shoving the creatures in a freezer to “research” or “feed to his birds of prey.”
Kennedy’s obsession with lifeless road animals is documented within the unauthorized biography on the 72-year-old, titled RFK JR.: The Fall and Rise.
The politician would reportedly write about his roadkill assortment in his diaries. In a single entry from November 2001, Kennedy reportedly spoke about discovering a lifeless raccoon on a freeway between Connecticut and New York.
“I used to be standing in entrance of my parked automotive on I-684 slicing the p—s out of a street killed raccoon, considering how bizarre a few of my relations have turned out to be,” he wrote.
He later added that his children “waited patiently within the automotive” as he did so.
Kennedy famously went viral when he admitted that he as soon as put a lifeless bear cub in his automotive whereas on a mountain climbing journey, drove round with it for a day, then dumped it in Central Park as a “prank”.
Throughout his transient run for president in 2024, Kennedy sat down with comic Roseanne Barr and shared that years earlier, he was driving in upstate New York early one morning when a driver in entrance of him hit and killed a child bear.
“So, I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him at the back of my van, as a result of I used to be gonna pores and skin the bear,” he defined flatly. “It was in superb situation and I used to be gonna put the meat in my fridge.”
He headed again to town with the lifeless bear in tow. However as a result of he was working late, he and a few mates determined to dump the 44-pound cub in Central Park and stage it to look as if it had been hit by a motorbike.
“We went and did that,” he confessed to Barr. “And we thought it might be amusing for whoever discovered it, or one thing.”