RFK Jr. Trolls Donald Trump with a “Thanksgiving Dinner” That Wasn’t Quite What It Seemed

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave his fol­low­ers a good laugh this Thanks­giv­ing — and per­haps left Don­ald Trump doing a dou­ble-take.

The 71-year-old Health Sec­re­tary took to X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter) to wish his one mil­lion fol­low­ers a hap­py hol­i­day. Along with his mes­sage, he shared what appeared to be a whole­some snap­shot of him­self enjoy­ing Thanks­giv­ing din­ner aboard Air Force One along­side Don­ald Trump, Don­ald Trump Jr., Elon Musk, and House Speak­er Mike John­son.

The table was filled with turkey, Brus­sels sprouts, mashed pota­toes, and oth­er Thanks­giv­ing clas­sics — a per­fect sym­bol of polit­i­cal uni­ty over com­fort food. But there was just one prob­lem: the pic­ture wasn’t real.

The “Thanksgiving Feast” That Was Actually McDonald’s

With­in min­utes, fol­low­ers noticed that Kennedy’s pho­to was, in fact, an edit­ed ver­sion of a 2024 image orig­i­nal­ly post­ed by Don Jr. In that ver­sion, the pow­er­ful group was eat­ing McDonald’s — not turkey.

The men were in the same seats, wear­ing the same clothes, with the same expres­sions. The only things that had changed were the food on the table and Don Jr.’s large McDonald’s fries, which were replaced with a neat slice of pie.

RFK Jr. him­self was orig­i­nal­ly pic­tured eat­ing McDonald’s with a Coke, look­ing notice­ably out of place for a man known for his strict health and diet habits. His “new” post replaced the fast food with a much more Kennedy-appro­pri­ate bowl of stuff­ing and a prop­er Thanks­giv­ing spread.

The post imme­di­ate­ly went viral. Some called it “the health­i­est trolling ever served,” while oth­ers said Kennedy “pho­to­shopped him­self into the Thanks­giv­ing he deserved.”

A Throwback to Barefoot Deep-Frying

This isn’t the first time RFK Jr. has stolen atten­tion over a Thanks­giv­ing meal.

Last year, the health-con­scious Repub­li­can post­ed a video show­ing him­self deep-fry­ing a turkey bare­foot, using beef tal­low instead of tra­di­tion­al oil.

“This is the dan­ger­ous part,” he warned in the clip as the bub­bling fat siz­zled, with his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, appear­ing in the back­ground to polite­ly decline a taste.

Moments lat­er, Kennedy tri­umphant­ly lift­ed the gold­en-brown turkey out of the pot, smil­ing and declar­ing, “That’s going to be deli­cious.”

The video quick­ly went viral for its unusu­al com­bi­na­tion of rus­tic charm and appar­ent dis­re­gard for safe­ty footwear. Health offi­cials, of course, do not rec­om­mend deep-fry­ing turkeys — let alone doing so bare­foot.

“Poison on Air Force One”

The Thanks­giv­ing pho­to prank also fits neat­ly into Kennedy’s ongo­ing crit­i­cism of Don­ald Trump’s diet.

Dur­ing a past inter­view on The Joe Pol­ish Show, RFK Jr. revealed that he once had to eat McDonald’s while trav­el­ing with the for­mer pres­i­dent.

“The stuff he eats is real­ly, like, bad,” Kennedy said, describ­ing cam­paign meals as “just poi­son.”
“On that air­plane, it’s Big Macs or KFC — that’s all you get.”

As part of his Make Amer­i­ca Healthy Again (MAHA) ini­tia­tive, Kennedy has repeat­ed­ly vowed to take on foods con­tain­ing addi­tives, pes­ti­cides, and syn­thet­ic chem­i­cals — many of which he claims can lead to chron­ic ill­ness and obe­si­ty.

He’s specif­i­cal­ly called out fast-food ingre­di­ents such as dex­trose (a sug­ar derived from corn or wheat that can dis­rupt glu­cose lev­els and pro­mote insulin resis­tance) and xan­than gum, a thick­en­ing agent known to cause bloat­ing and diges­tive dis­com­fort.

“Cam­paign food is always bad,” Kennedy said, “but the food that goes onto that air­plane is just poi­son.”

From Fast Food to Fast Trolling

Whether you view his post as polit­i­cal shade or a bit of light­heart­ed Thanks­giv­ing fun, there’s no deny­ing RFK Jr. knows how to make head­lines — and a meme.

The pho­to­shopped din­ner was equal parts satire and sym­bol­ism: a jab at fast food cul­ture, a nod to his healthy-liv­ing cru­sade, and per­haps a sub­tle reminder that not all polit­i­cal feasts are what they appear to be.

As one user clev­er­ly com­ment­ed under his post:

“When you can’t change the menu, change the image.”

And this Thanks­giv­ing, that’s exact­ly what RFK Jr. did.