By Archer D’Angelo

The Terrapin Times has decided to embark upon the task of explaining the members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet in a digestible way by and for the students of Brooklyn Independent. This is the product of this project, our dissection of  Trump’s cabinet, or as I call it, due to its large percentage of television personalities, the “TV Cabinet.” We will be explaining the members of This Cabinet by showcasing their own words and quotes, to truly understand their thought processes.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Terrapin Times has given its opinion on this man many times before, and the opinion is not  positive. He is the son of the beloved Attorney General, and brother of President John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy Sr., but he is arguably an insult to his father’s memory, for he is against almost all that his father stood for. He is a so-called “Environmentalist” who in reality has done very little for the environment. He is a proponent of the theory that vaccines cause Autism and a long-term enemy of Dr. Anthony Fauci. While he is all of these things, there is one thing he isn’t and that is truthful.

However, there is one more thing that he is, one thing that shines above all, the facts of what he has done to animals. This started when he said  that “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Need I say  more? Well, turns out, I must, because this is what he said in a video attached to a tweet reading “Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker…”, which is somehow worse:

“I was taking some people falconing up in Goshen, New York, up in the Hudson Valley. And I was supposed to meet them there at maybe 8 or 9, I was driving up maybe really early like 7. And then a woman, in a van in front of me, hit a bear, and killed it. A young bear. So I pulled over and I picked up the bear, and I put it in the back of my van. Because I was going to skin the bear. And it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator. And you can do this in New York State. You can get a Bear Tag, for a roadkill bear. So then we went hawking, and I had the bear in my car. And then we had a really good day and we went late, we were catching a lot of game and the people really loved it so we stayed late so instead of going back to my home in Westchester I had to go right to the city cause there was a dinner at Peter Luger Steak House. And at the end of the dinner, it went late and I realized I couldn’t go home, I had to go to the airport. And the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car. Because that would have been bad. So then I thought, you know, in that time [2014], this was the little bit of the redneck in me, there had been a series of bicycle accidents in New York. They just had put in the bike lanes. And some people, a couple of people had gotten killed, and every day people had been badly injured. Every day it was in the press. And so I thought, I wasn’t drinking of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea. And I said I had an old bike in my car that somebody had asked me to get rid of, I said “let’s go put the bear in Central Park and we’ll go make it look like it got hit by a bike.” So everybody thought “That’s a great idea!” So we went and did that. And we thought it would be amusing for anyone who found it or something. The next day, it was on every television station or something, it was the front page of every paper. And I turned on the TV and there was like miles of yellow tape and there were twenty cop cars, there were helicopters flying over it. And I was like “Oh my god. What did I do?” And then they were, there was some people on TV, In Tyvek Suits, with gloves on, lifting up the bike, and they were saying they were going to take this up to Albany to get it fingerprinted. I was worried, because my prints were all over this bike. Luckily, the story died down after a while, and it stayed dead for a decade. The New Yorker somehow found out about it and they just, their gonna do a whole big article on me and that’s one of the the articles. So they asked me, the fact checkers, you know it’s gonna be a bad story.”

That may already seem like an unrepeatable act of a delusional Kennedy, but more animal-based events have been reported involving him. It was recently discovered that in a Town And Country Magazine article from 2011 interviewing, RFK Jr.’s daughter, Kick, a story is told that:

“When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby [RFK Jr.] — who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons — ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. “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,” Kick recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

This is without a doubt, both a crime and animal abuse. This is not simply my opinion, as the first event had the many law enforcement officers described, and the second event is currently being National Marine Fisheries Service, a subgroup of N.O.A.A. that is responsible for the United States’ marine resources. However, there is even more, as RFK Jr. MAY be guilty of human abuse, specifically misconduct, a idea that when asked about he responded, to a crowd of journalists that:

“I am not a church boy. I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.”

And so, this man has a pretty decent chance of being the Secretary of Health and Human Services, a position that our President-Elect, Donald Trump, has stated “Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!” Also Trump has said that he would let Kennedy “go wild on health,” “go wild on the food” and “go wild on medicines” if reelected, which he certainly was. I however do hold hope that congress can block this hire and attempt to get someone at least slightly more qualified to manage our health.