Comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon used a recent episode of The Tim Dillon Show to take direct aim at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement, arguing that its bold promises of food safety reform have produced almost nothing.
The focal point of Dillon’s critique was a social media video Kennedy posted from what appeared to be a summer hiking trip.
“He’s seems like he’s on his Instagram,” Dillon said, before imitating Kennedy describing the excursion: “We did a 10 mile hike up the mountain and I saw a yak and then I pushed the yak with my phone and it ran away.”
For Dillon, the image of the nation’s top health official posting yak content on Instagram while the food supply remains largely untouched said everything about the MAHA project’s actual priorities.
“This was the guy who’s going to try to help the food,” he said. “The food’s as bad as it’s ever been. That was all fake, by the way. He was gonna look into all of the vaccines and the food. He didn’t do any of that.”
Dillon placed the blame not only on Kennedy but on the administration’s deference to the food industry as a whole.
“Trump’s a junk food ad*ict,” he said. “It’s the junk food presidency. And all the people that own the big food conglomerates, they’re like, ‘Well, no, you’re not banning s**t.'”
He acknowledged that one small change had been made, but framed it as proof of how little had actually shifted.
“They banned one dye, this one red dye,” Dillon said. “None of it’s getting fixed.”
The movement had once promised to bring American food in line with European safety standards, a goal Dillon noted had quietly been abandoned.
“All they could do is just move us to European standards on the food,” he said. “They’ve done none of that because the corporations.”
By the time Dillon got to the yak video, he had already written off the Secretary of Health and Human Services as more interested in content creation than policy.
“The Secretary of Health and Human Services is now doing content on social media with wild animals,” he said. “He’s now become some weird version of the crocodile hunter. He’s the Steve Irwin that we deserve.”
For Dillon, the MAHA movement represents another promise that looked bold before power was actually held. The processed food is still on the shelves, water quality is declining, and the man who pledged to clean it all up is out on a mountain posting videos of himself startling a yak.
