RFK Jr claims his father Robert F Kennedy and uncle JFK would back Trump if they were alive today

GRAPEVINE, TEXAS: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared at CPAC on Saturday that his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his legendary uncle, President John F. Kennedy, would be firmly in President Donald Trump’s corner if they were alive today.

Speaking during a fireside chat with CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp, RFK Jr. was rather candid when asked what his dad would think of the journey he’s taken from lifelong Democrat and environmental crusader to Trump ally and Cabinet secretary.

RFK Jr says his father and uncle would back Trump

Schlapp asked Kennedy, "If your dad were alive today, what would he say about everything that you've done?"

“Everything that I’ve done in my life, the choices I made in my career, are choices that I think my father and my uncle would support,” Kennedy said.

He insisted that JFK and RFK Sr. would back many of the moves Trump is making right now. “I think that if they were around today, they would be making the same kinds of choices that President Trump is making — on Iran, on Ukraine, and on trying to lift up the middle class.”

Kennedy explained how the Democratic Party has changed since his family’s heyday.

“You know what? I’ll tell you something. I grew up in a Democratic Party where Democrats owned 30% of the wealth, and Republicans owned 70%. Today, it’s exactly the inverse. Democrats own 70% of the wealth, and the Republicans own 30%,” he said.

“Well, and the Democrats are no longer on this side of the middle class. They’re contemptuous of it. And President Trump is completely committed to farmers, to firemen, to police, people who are working in this country," he insisted.

RFK Jr calls Trump the 'opposite of a narcissist'

In the same interview, Kennedy admitted he had once bought into the media-driven caricature of Trump as a “bombastic narcissist” who didn’t read books and was ill-informed.

“President Trump is exactly the opposite of everything that I believed him to be. I admit I basically drank the Kool-Aid that he was this bombastic narcissist that didn’t read books [and] was ill-informed. And now I know the exact opposite,” Kennedy confessed. “He’s the opposite of a narcissist; he’s an empath.”

Kennedy said Trump had deep concern for human suffering in foreign conflicts, particularly the Russia-Ukraine war. “You will not hear any Democrat ever talk about that,” he said, referring to Trump’s fixation on casualties.

He also marveled at the President’s breadth of knowledge, describing it as “encyclopedic molecular knowledge on… this wide range of very, very eclectic interests,” from music and Broadway to pro wrestling, football, golf, business, and Wall Street deal-making. “And he tells stories all the time about it, it’s just one after the other,” Kennedy recalled.

Perhaps the most vivid anecdote came when Kennedy described sitting across from Trump on a campaign plane, munching on McDonald’s and sipping Diet Coke while discussing Syria.

“He got a place mat, and he turned it on its back, and then he took a Sharpie, and he drew a perfect map of the Middle East, and then he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map,” Kennedy said. “And it just… challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about him.”

Kennedy even claimed Trump “understands the use of power better than probably any president that we’ve had at least since Roosevelt and maybe in American history.”