“Make America Health Again” is coming to an airport near you according to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Passengers at Ronald Reagan National Airport were given an unexpected surprise yesterday when RFK, Jr. got into a health-inspired pull-up contest with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
The two Trump cabinet secretaries were on site touting a $1 billion investment to make airports across the country more family-friendly, conducive to good health and better for breastfeeding.
“I don’t want you to have a full-body sweat going on till you stink,” Duffy told The Post prior to the impromptu move.
“But if you do a few good pull-ups, get your blood flowing, I think that’s positive. This is not like go to the gym, sweat and get on an airplane.”
Ultimately, fitness guru Dr. Paul Saladino (who was also on hand) came out on top with 21 pull-ups, followed by Kennedy at 20 in the impromptu contest. Duffy did 10, but was bested by his daughter, who cranked out 13.
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The viral footage from both Duffy and Kennedy was part of their “Make Travel Family Friendly Again” initiative, which seizes on $1 billion in funding previously passed by Congress.
“I’m announcing at DOT that we have $1 billion in funding for grant programs to make the experience better in airports,” Duffy explained.
“I want to expand the play areas for kids. I want additional nursing pods for nursing mothers. Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing, doing some pull-ups or some step-ups.
During the announcement, both Kennedy and Duffy stood in front of a Farmer’s Fridge dispensary, which sells salads and other healthy foods, and pointed to it as a model of what they want the public to eat in airports.
“I can tell you that this is where healthy diets go to die,” Kennedy lamented to reporters about airports.
Kennedy, who claims to fly an average of about 250 days a year, railed against airports for being a hotbed of ultra-processed foods, sugar bombs and other junk food that will ” leave you sicker than before you ate it.”
Duffy and Kennedy were flanked by Saladino, Farmer’s Fridge CEO Luke Saunders, and influencer Isabel Brown in rolling out the “Make Travel Family Friendly Again” initiative.
Despite the conference being led by Duffy and Kennedy, Brown was brought in to discuss conditions for breastfeeding in airports.
Brown recounted being stranded at airports with a baby and struggling to figure out a way to breastfeed, an experience she stressed was common for mothers across the country.
Despite the ambitious initiative, Duffy also admitted he doesn’t currently have a plan to tackle the high costs of food at airports.
“It’s interesting. It’s market demand and supply. They have airports pretty tightly contained — there’s not a lot of options,” he said in response to a question from reporters.
“I don’t have a plan to reduce costs. What I am trying to do is provide healthier options for people.”