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Trump Suggests He’s Getting Ready to Throw in the Towel on His Surgeon General Nominee Amid Heavy Criticism of Her Qualifications
Mediaite ^ | March 30, 2026 | Joe De Paolo

Posted on 03/30/2026 6:40:38 AM PDT by Miami Rebel

President Donald Trump suggested, late Sunday, that he is getting ready to move on from Casey Means — his Surgeon General nominee — amid heavy criticism of her qualifications.

Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One, the president opened the door to pulling Means’s nomination.

“Are you considering withdrawing Casey Means for Surgeon General and nominating someone else?” A reporter asked.

“Well, we’re looking at a lot of different things,” Trump said. “I don’t know how she’s doing in the nomination process. I’m more focused on Iran. But, you know, something like that would be possible. We certainly have a lot of great candidates for that job.”

Earlier Sunday, Dr. Jerome Adams — who served as Surgeon General during Trump’s first term — came out strongly against Means and her credentials. Speaking with the Washington Post, Adams called out the fact that Means allowed her physician’s license to lapse and opted to become a wellness influencer.

“The irony would be the nation’s doctor wouldn’t even be in the corps as a doctor,” Adams said.

Means’s nomination has been held up in the Senate for 11 months — as Senate Republicans have expressed reservations on several of her positions, including her stance on vaccinations. While she has said vaccines are “an important part of the public health strategy,” she has stopped short of endorsing vaccinations for children on the flu and the measles, among others.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: good; surgeongeneral
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To: TexasGator
it becomes fraudulent when it rejects scientific evidence, promotes “miracle cures,” or leads to delaying necessary conventional medical treatment.

Ivermectin. Just about the safest drug on the market. Period. Kept away from CoVID victims until they were killed with Remdesivir.

21 posted on 03/30/2026 8:05:27 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Skwor

Surgeon General is a joke, the likes of “Rachel” Levine and Joclyn Elders made it a laughing stock. It’s a sinecure that lets some doofus play dressup as a soldier. That’s it.


22 posted on 03/30/2026 8:09:57 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: RideForever
Ivermectin. Just about the safest drug on the market.

You know what the CDC said was the safest drug on the market, safer than aspirin, prior to COVID? HCQ. Shortly after COVID they scrubbed that report from their website and declared it poison.

23 posted on 03/30/2026 8:11:51 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Miami Rebel

Isn’t RFK jr already filling that role in his public discussions on nutrition and selective vaccinations?
It looks that way.


24 posted on 03/30/2026 8:15:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Miami Rebel

Jerome Adams is a clown that has no more credibility in medical matters than Dr. Dre or Dr. Pepper.


25 posted on 03/30/2026 8:16:12 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If I leave here, it’s because I’m tired of arguing with geriatric parrots wearing MAGA hats.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Established in 1871, the U.S. Surgeon General commands the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and serves as a leading voice for public health.The mission of the U.S. Surgeon General is to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of our nation.

...by:

Communicating the best available scientific information for the benefit of all.
Encouraging nation-wide action on public health issues in collaboration with governments, businesses, and communities.
Developing strategies for advancing public health science and leadership

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/index.html


26 posted on 03/30/2026 8:27:10 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"I hate Congress with an undying hatred. They have created problems for me personally, for my family and for generations that will follow by NOT doing what should be done until they can somehow benefit personally, or by doing what is wrong because they benefit personally. They are traitors in the purest sense, almost all of them."

As far as I'm concerned Trump/Bondi and congress have condemned the US to civil war due to a lack of arrests and impeached judges. The left is already shooting.

All it's going to take is a veteran or two getting stopped at an antifa checkpoint. The country CANNOT return from that.

Ecc 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

27 posted on 03/30/2026 8:28:18 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Miami Rebel

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-schedules/child-easyread.html

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html


28 posted on 03/30/2026 8:36:42 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Alberta's Child
"Jerome Adams is a clown that has no more credibility in medical matters than Dr. Dre or Dr. Pepper."

I remember his commercials during Covid. I thought he was an idiot. An actor.

29 posted on 03/30/2026 8:42:39 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: SENTINEL

“impeached judges”

We can’t successfully impeach judges, but a Republican Congress and President can removal their tools of obstruction.

The Congress has Article I, Section 8 power to make rules for the government.

Perhaps a new law:

Federal judges shall not make law, but merely help litigants get the benefit of the text and intended meanings of the provisions of the Constitution when they were placed into it, statutory law and the remnants of common law.

No ruling or decision by a federal district or appellate court judge on a case against a government, a governmental agency or governmental person shall be applicable beyond each entity or private person individually listed within by name or personal particulars by the judge personally.

No federal judge who has or has possessed foreign citizenship may adjudicate an immigration, asylum or removal case.

No district court federal judge shall work on a case who has a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, child, grandchild or known partner of such close relative or a personal partner with any case related interest.

The following district and appellate court judges are hereby barred from hearing cases where the federal government is a party or federal funding is in contention:
....

If judges don’t want to be shaking their fists instead of gavels, they need to behave and know their place.

If judges don’t want to have to wear fools’ caps as Congress may require under Article I, Section 8, they need to behave and know their place.


30 posted on 03/30/2026 8:43:57 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SENTINEL

Exactly RIGHT. Perfect passage.


31 posted on 03/30/2026 9:13:27 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

That is probably a very wise suggestion.


32 posted on 03/30/2026 10:22:22 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Miami Rebel

What exactly does a surgeon general do?


33 posted on 03/30/2026 10:39:19 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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