Rudy Gobert supports Donald Trump's controversial new Secretary of State for Health, Robert Kennedy Jr

The French kingpin published a tweet welcoming the appointment of Robert Kennedy Jr., known for having held anti-vaccine and conspiracy positions.

“Let’s go Robert Kennedy Jr”. Through a tweet posted on Friday, November 15, on the .

This choice of Donald Trump arouses controversy across the Atlantic, Robert Kennedy Jr being known for his anti-vaccine and conspiracy positions. He notably estimated that the COVID-19 vaccine was the “deadliest ever made” by diverting data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

Nephew of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the American president assassinated in Dallas in 1963, and son of Robert Francis Kennedy, brother of the president also assassinated in 1968, he notably assured that the deployment of 5G increased the effects of Covid, and made links, denied by scientists, between vaccines and autism. Robert Kennedy Jr ran in the presidential election this year as an independent candidate, before joining Donald Trump's campaign.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Rudy Gobert, during a press conference, ostensibly and voluntarily touched the microphone and the table to mock the restrictions which were beginning to appear. Behavior which went against barrier gestures, just before he learned that he had been contaminated. He thus became the first NBA player to test positive, which forced the American league to suspend the season.

Much criticized, the French international had made donations reaching $500,000 to various associations and health services helping Covid-19 patients and their families.