Trump Taps MAHA-Favorite Doctor Casey Means To Replace Surgeon General Nominee

Peloni:  It is interesting that Trump pulled Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination one day before her confirmation hearings were to begin.  So now that we have seen the confirmation of the former advocate of mRNA shots halted, might we soon see the Covid shots themselves halted, as they currently remain on the mandatory child vaccination schedule?

Also, something shared in other reports regarding Dr. Means is that she was significantly involved in the negotiated alliance between Trump and RFK during the last election season.

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President Donald Trump is nominating Dr. Casey Means for the position of surgeon general after pulling Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination, Trump announced on his Truth Social account Wednesday.

Means, a Stanford-educated doctor, co-authored a book on metabolic health with her brother Calley, who has become a fierce ally and public facing spokesman for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.

“Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” Trump wrote in his announcement.

 

Means focuses on using nutrition to restore metabolic function as a means of preventing chronic disease. She has made appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience, Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson’s podcast, and other alternative media programs.

She has been highly critical of the medical establishment, aiming criticisms at even her own Stanford education.

“I learned virtually nothing at Stanford Medical School about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that elucidate the root causes of why American health is plummeting,” Means said in 2024.

 

Means, who graduated Stanford Medical School with her Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 2014. She left her residency at Oregon Health and Science University in her fifth year “to focus on the real root causes of why Americans are so sick,” she wrote in her LinkedIn.

Trump’s former pick, Nesheiwat, a family doctor and former Fox News contributor, was scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for her confirmation hearing Thursday.

Nesheiwat was blasted by Trump supporters shortly after her nomination for past comments about the Covid-19 pandemic, including praising Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg for censoring individuals who questioned vaccine effectiveness and supporting mask mandates.

Her record came under fire again in April after writer Anthony Clark accused her of lying about where she went to medical school.

Nesheiwat, Clark claimed, received her medical degree not from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as she claimed, but from American University of the Caribbean.

Clark provided an alleged screenshot of Nesheiwat’s LinkedIn profile which said that she got her Doctorate of Medicine from UAMS. Nesheiwat also claims to be a medical alum of UAMS in her X profile and Trump touted her alleged credentials in his statement announcing her nomination in November 2024.

Since Clark posted his accusations on April 20, Nesheiwat updated her LinkedIn profile to show that her MD came from the American University of the Caribbean.

Nesheiwat may still be offered a different role in the Trump administration, as Trump wrote that he looked forward to seeing her work with Secretary Kennedy somewhere else in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).


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  1. Email recieved:

    Ted, that’s amazing news. Dr. Casey Means as the Surgeon General in the USA is excellent news. A successful Neuro-Surgeon, who left Medicine, because her conscience didn’t allow her to continue to abide by the dictates of the American Medical Association. We could expect radical changes in the practice of medicine worldwide. No more treatment of symptoms, but the root cause of illnesses.

    President Trump never admits of making mistakes, but I am thrilled he replaced his previous nominee, who was a proponent of vaccines with Dr. Casey Means. This will have positive implications regarding the practice of medicine, worldwide. Also the current Surgeon General of Florida could have been a good choice.

  2. Any relation?

    My two all-time favorite medical shows, alas neither of which is available. Both satires, the original unintentionally. Every patient who came in seemed to suffer from a cerebral hematoma, as a doctor would solemnly intone, with a note of surprise. But moving as well as funny in different places the both of them. Dr.X deals with the Covid lockdown in one of its last episodes. Ran for 7 seasons. A movie came out end of last year. Likewise unavailable. I hope Trump’s decision to impose 150 percent tariffs on foreign tv and movies doesn’t make my only contemporary source of entertainment completely unavailable. Her signature line: I never fail.”

    “Ben Casey is an American medical drama television series that aired on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols “?, ?, ?, †, ?” on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe said “Man, woman, birth, death, infinity.”[1] Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff served as a medical consultant for the show….

    ‘…In the popular Japanese medical drama, “Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon” the office cat is named Ben Casey…”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Casey

  3. Nesheiwat’ was a kind of “Fauci” left over! A big screw up at the top!
    How was that possible at that level!!!
    GREED induced CDE!
    Nobody checks credentials anymore!

  4. Janette Nesheiwat sounds a lot like her sister Julia Nesheiwat who is married to former National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. Julia is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Council for National Policy and the globalist Atlantic Council.