Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised President Donald Trump’s drawing hand as “beautiful” in a podcast rave about his “encyclopedic mind.”
Kennedy made the remarks in a July 17 interview on the FlyZoneUSA podcast, telling host Trick Trick that actor Mark Ruffalo had told him a blunt verdict on the president.
“You’re working for the stupidest man in America,” Ruffalo explained, Kennedy recalled.
“I actually at one point believed that. I believe he’s very superficial. He’s probably never read a book,” Kennedy insisted.
“But now that I know him, he has like an encyclopedic mind. He knows everything,” Kennedy said, describing Trump’s command of music, musicians, theater, sports, Wall Street deal-making, foreign policy, and architecture.
“One time when I was on his plane with him, we started talking about troop strength in Syria and Iran and Israel and Jordan,” Kennedy said. “And he drew — he’s got a very beautiful hand — and he drew a perfect picture of the Mideast with all the countries, and he put the troop strength on every border of all those countries.”
The praise landed differently given what is publicly known about Trump’s hands.