Bill Maher Says ‘My Head Isn’t Exploding’ Over Trump’s Pick of RFK Jr. to HHS: “We need to shake things up”

“Real Time” host Bill Maher seemed open-minded about President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services.

Maher began his interview with physician and author Dr. Casey Means on how people have been “freaking out” over Trump’s loss of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to carry out federal health policies.

“Well, the system as it is, the way we do health care, is already very f—ed,” Maher said Friday night. “So maybe he’ll make it worse. But like, my head isn’t going to explode.”

Means told Maher that she believed Election Day showed that the American people want to address the “chronic disease epidemic” and that RFK Jr. was someone willing to take it on.

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher said his head is not “exploding” that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was tapped by President-elect Trump to lead HHS. (Screenshot/HBO)

The HBO star pointed to Kennedy’s recent comments insisting he would not ban vaccines.

“If you want them, you have them. It’s not going to be mandated. I think that’s what a lot of people objected to before,” Maher said. “I mean, I’ve said it many times. There are some pathogens that, if they went around, I’d fight you for the vaccine. And there are others that, you know, I just wouldn’t want, like . one we just had.”

Means sounded the alarm about how the US is “the sickest of the top 11 high-income countries in the world” and how the life expectancy for an American male is 73, which she noted was ten years lower than Japan and Switzerland.

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“This is something we should all be outraged about,” Means told Maher. “And only one party in our election cycle this year talked about chronic disease. The words ‘chronic disease,’ as far as I know, never came out of the Harris campaign’s mouth. And I think that was a real misstep because Americans are , I guess, tired of being gaslighted that there isn’t a problem right now.”

“And Trump has asked RFK to do three simple things. He has asked us to get the corruption out of the US health agencies, produce uncompromising, evidence-based research for our health guidelines, and reverse the trends of the chronic disease epidemic in two years for children and adults, so we can show up for our 250th anniversary in America stronger than ever, that sounds pretty good to me,” she added.

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images))

However, Maher seemed more skeptical of Trump keeping his campaign promises.

“Believe me, the first time Trump gets a call from some big scumbag in the pharmaceutical industry and says, ‘Hey, you’re screwing with my profits, Trump can easily reverse all of this,'” Maher said.

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Maher acknowledged that Robert F. Kennedy has “said crazy s—” but that “we need to shake it up.” (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Means remained upbeat, suggesting the president-elect “has been shown some light by RFK about the monumental nature of the American health epidemic, and it has rubbed off on him.”

“If you’re going to say he’s a crazy person — he definitely said some crazy s—. He definitely said some crazy s—, but we need to shake it up,” Maher said later.

Kennedy endorsed Trump after suspending his own presidential campaign, becoming one of Trump’s most prominent surrogates and incorporating the “MAHA” (Make America Healthy Again) movement into his closing argument to voters.