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NYT, archived at https://archive.is/x7vik#selection-503.0-503.65
President Trumps executive order aimed at spurring production of a pesticide has infuriated leaders of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s MAHA movement.
Some of the women, who call themselves the MAHA Moms after Mr. Kennedys Make America Healthy Again movement, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for Mr. Trump.
But the executive order Mr. Trump issued Wednesday to increase domestic production of glyphosate a widely used weedkiller and possible carcinogen that has been the target of thousands of lawsuits, including one brought by Mr. Kennedy stunned and infuriated the activists. It now threatens to turn the brief MAHA-Trump marriage into a divorce.
Women feel like they were lied to, that MAHA movement is a sham, said Alex Clark, a health and wellness podcaster for the conservative group Turning Point U.S.A., which is closely allied with the president. How am I supposed to rally these women to vote red in the midterms? How can we win their trust back? I am unsure if we can.
WAIT! Fox News is on the case.

dgauss
(1,502 posts)Is the MAHA movement suggesting there might have been some dishonesty at some point in the Trump administration?
Who could have seen that coming?
RockRaven
(19,020 posts)or perhaps unwilling to tell that you were being lied to -- when so many other people like Democrats correctly identified it at the time.
Why don't you sit down and ponder that and get back to us when you have an answer? Because unless you do that work, you are going to be suckered again by the next liar -- and we are all out of patience with, and sympathy for, your idiocy.
dgauss
(1,502 posts)Initech
(108,243 posts)We told you this shit was bad and RFK Jr was a lying, rotten scumbag years ago. But you didn't listen to us and listened to the social media shit posts instead.
LetMyPeopleVote
(177,634 posts)The Make America Healthy Again agenda is riddled with a series of overlapping contradictions, which are becoming even more common.
When RFK Jr. was on the campaign trail in 2024, he vowed that if he joined Trumpâs team, he would âban the worst agricultural chemicals.â
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-19T18:25:23.000Z
I have some bad news for the voters who actually believed he'd follow through on this.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-executive-order-on-a-weed-killer-chemical-didnt-do-rfk-jr-any-favors
This year, the underlying dynamic has reached a new level. The New York Times reported:
President Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at spurring the domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has figured in health lawsuits.
The move immediately set off alarms among supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s Make America Healthy Again movement, and appeared to put Mr. Kennedy in an awkward position.
As the report explains, glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, which has been the target of tens of thousands of lawsuits that claim it causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma......
This has been an ongoing issue for months. In June, MS NOWs Catherine Rampell wrote a memorable Washington Post column along these lines, noting that Kennedys MAHA agenda is rooted in part in the idea that Americans health would greatly improve through better nutrition and exposure to fewer environmental toxins.
Kennedy, Rampell added, is nevertheless playing a leading role in an administration thats expanding use of environmental toxins.
If Kennedy and Team Trump wanted to admit that the MAHA agenda was largely focused on undermining vaccines, it would be impolitic, but it would also be far closer to the truth.