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Trump withdraws Casey Means, nominates Nicole Saphier for Surgeon General

scienceApr 30, 2026434,568

President Trump withdrew Dr. Casey Means' stalled nomination and nominated Dr. Nicole Saphier to be U.S. surgeon general. Dr. Nicole Saphier is a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor who has published commentary on vaccines, autism, peptides, and diet. Her nomination matters because the surgeon general sets national public health messaging and Saphier's record signals the administration's likely priorities if she is confirmed.

Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"The Fox News contributor is the founder of a supplement business that develops 'clean, thoughtfully crafted tinctures'... "Her Instagram account is peppered with dubious wellness claims such as 'rosemary and sage decrease Alzheimer’s risk'...” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

200145d ago
Tony Colletti162

One of the most consistent things about the Trump administration is that the primary qualification for any position is that you must be totally unqualified for that position.

Judy Weston61

JFC, is she married to Florida’s voodoo surgeon general? “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.” -Trump, Las Vegas Rally, 2024 He meant every fucking word!

Arkancrow33

The are litteraly putting the snake oil people in charge of healthcare in the USA.

@spiritbeing.bsky.social 17

Quacks appear easy to find at the Fox network.

🇨🇦 Part owner of Canada13

Its always a grift, always.

Renae Freedom10

She'll fit right in with the RFK slaughter health bunch.

River Odder8

But what about Parsley and Thyme?

JC 💙🦋🛸7

Acceptable Nominees per the GOP Apparently

PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elon' 🙄7

We all gonna die sooner than expected, aren't we 😳

Jessica Cheeri7

Everything is television and somehow also everything is an old time medicine show

Richard Bellikoff6

He only nominates quacks: medical quacks, economic quacks, legal quacks and military quacks. He's the biggest quack of all, a business quack and a negotiating quack.

drawpipe.bsky.social5

I’m buying stock in snake oil, raccoon penises, candles, salt, long straight pins, and straw dolls before everyone gets any ideas! I’m going to be rich! Why candles, salt, long straight pins, and straw dolls? Because witch craft and voodoo will be all anyone can afford for healthcare.

We're Not Home5

Wow! Fox News is the premier staffing agency for the White House!

rbsnst.bsky.social5

FOX NEWS IS RUNNING OUR COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND LITERALLY BETWEEN THE NEW STATION AND OUR GOVT RUN BY FOX……..ENOUGH

Alba Dawn5

Don’t his followers wonder why the only people he chooses for the most important jobs in the country are ones he sees on tv? On just one channel? Surely even they must have a few questions?

Dan5

I am so tired of the grifters, pedophiles and morally bankrupt scum that now run our country. It is all so stupid it hurts.

Bill Jensen4

Good Lord, a supplements nutter

quilterjude.bsky.social4

She’s got the MAL look! What else could she possibly need?

Donna the Crossing Guard4

Fox news has become the Indeed for the trump administration

Cath RN, PhD4

Her medical degree was gotten out of the US. She attended a sketchy af “medical school.” DeVry Inc now owns it.

Sherry3

Fox seems to be Trump's favorite employment agency

Bluebren3

It's a fucking cast not a damn cabinet. Holy hell.

🇨🇦3

😂. Omg. Not again another unqualified person appointed to the administration 😵‍💫. It’s beyond logic at this point

Odysseus3

Just another grifter and fraud. Right up Trumps alley.

Tom Sellacar3

Soon a government program will start issuing Patchouli oil with your voters registration card and snortable turmeric with your passport. The path toward holistic health is almost too easy.

Mark Pickens3

Unqualified. Call Your Senators. Mears got knocked out, this TV pitch woman is vulnerable. Plus she win’t like the vitriol tossed at her. ☎️📞📱202-224-3121 Add fuel to the phone calls with @resist.bot Text ‘sign PJLCDY’ to 50409 resist.bot/petitions/PJ...

CtlAltDel3

The beclowning of America continues unabated.

They Call Me Gary3

🤔 Yep, Another Wackjob Lunatic Trump Nominee for surgeon general. 🙄 Hell this one might even recommend a daily Racoon Penis or road kill meal.

LZ2

The difference between Trump and George W. Bush is that, while both morons, one of them surrounded himself with smarter people.

B∙R∙AI∙N2

Hmm...wonder what parsley and thyme do..?

afr66.bsky.social2

So, another whacko. Screen shot all you can as you know that stuff is coming down. I will say she’s marginally an improvement since she was willing to say vaccines don’t cause autism. A low bar I realize.

AwntieWithaW2

So she’s even worse. No surprise there.

msm86.bsky.social2

RFK jr is bad enough. We don't need a grifter who has been to medical school as Surgeon General.

Graeme2

They have already evidenced their antipathy towards evidence-based science in favour of ideological or financial gain. Can't say I'm surprised by this new development... Just wondering who's got "burn the witch" on their Trump bingo card?

Leslie2

Are you a highly successful grifter? Are you unqualified to do anything other than grift? Join the Trump administration*, where you can lie, cheat, and steal in ways you never dreamed of, with impunity!! *Blind unquestioning loyalty to the Grifter-in-Chief required. Ppl with spines need not apply.

swestberg2025.bsky.social2

Of course her credentials are fox news

Turn Based Carl2

Our government is a clown show. This regime needs to be ousted asap. We need serious people running our country again, too much damage is being done.

John Novio2

A medical doctor that doubts medical science, not surprising on Fox News but completely makes sense for a trump administration.

djmicoh.bsky.social2

I'm deeply concerned by the proliferation of magical thinking in society today. I'm worried that I'm gonna turn on the news in twenty years and see the weatherman reading the entrails of birds, or have my doctor put ointment the knife I cut myself with.

Steve Gray2

I think anyone who uses the word "Tinctures" in any serious way needs to be examined by a properly qualified psychologist.

Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow2

I never bothered to learn anything about Casey Means because I always assumed she was just Trump's manicurist.

Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

1. Trump has nominated Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor, to be the next Surgeon General. She has an ardent history of anti-trans statements, and pushes detransition myths and hate. She calls trans youth a "national emergency." Subscribe to support our journalism.

54045d ago
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Trump: "Nicole Saphier. She's with Fox. Was with Fox. Isn't with Fox anymore, Peter. But she's great. She'll be the Surgeon General."

37745d ago
Middlerage70

Oh she's from FOX, well then case closed! 🤡

Chrysostom40

He would have actually been better served if he’d chosen all his cabinet and senior appointments from the cast of Sesame Street.

They Call Me Gary31

🙄 Trumps pick for Surgeon General is Nicole Berardoni Saphier is a "radiologist" But mostly a Fox News talking head. She is featured as a regular guest/host on panel TV shows such as Fox & Friends, Outnumbered, Mornings with Maria, Hannity, The Big Weekend Show, Fox News Saturday Night and The Five.

Alex Sprague19

Remind me not to get surgery in the next 3 years.

Olaf Pijl15

A completely unqualified snake oil peddler from TV. Who would have thought?🙄

Sir Chumlee11

'She's great, Peter. She's a titty doctor and you know how I like my titties.'

JBlanchard11

Trump owes his political career to FOX, and he's rewarding those individuals there as much as possible. You can also bet there is a direct pipeline of information sharing from Admin to FOX.

Steve9

Dr. Fox is her new nickname, or so I'm told. 🙄

Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot8

Never one word for his voters that can't buy beef or the vets wounded in his war.

ResistaSista768

Hiring from a propaganda network hasn’t gone well thus far. See: the drunk weekend host currently running the military into the ground.

Monzo (Dirtbag Leftist)6

our country is run by Foxnews boomers

Gerald Glenn Saenz 🇺🇦6

It's time for that 4th cognitive test.

Voted for joy and we ended up with this6

Let me guess. She's blond, loyal, and has boobs.🤡

Videosmith6

After nominating someone with no medical license and wasting a year

Scott Gillispie6

I wish her the hearing in the Senate she deserves.

gacyclist.bsky.social5

A graduate of ross uni easily medical school in Barbados! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_...

A Travis-T5

What are her qualifications? Oh... Right..

Hagen Patrick5

"Don't bug me when I'm making my mark, Peter."

May the Force be with us!5

Another FOX low life? WTF. What a shit show this administration is.

Shola Hoon4

“I don’t know her, but she’ll be great”

progressivepeter.bsky.social4

Young, white, attractive female who's been on Fox. Checks all of Trump's boxes.

Diego Queen4

oh, she was with FOX…what could go wrong?

kenofseattle4

We should treat Fox news the same way we would a person yelling 'FIRE' in a crowded movie theatre.

BlueRockitResistor4

What a disgrace to our country PLEASE, TELL USALL What are her Qualifications for SURGEON GENERAL

@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social4

Trump's infamous Circle-Jerk Session. Blow-jobs all around.

Richard Levine3

So, now we know all we need to know about her—she’s with Fox, was with Fox, is great. Hmm.

Brian2

Nicole Saphier another grifter and quack. She is better suited to play a doctor on "The Bold and the Beautiful" but not qualified to be Surgeon General.

squirrels1963.bsky.social2

Oh come on. It’s all just an evil prank to him.

Carmela 🌍🌹😎🍷🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦2

I predicted she would get a WH job when she started working on Foxnews. That‘s all you have to do.

ProudBlue💙2

She was from Fox … So we don’t need to know her medical credentials…

Tim Murphy2

Notice how Trump lit up talking about Saphier? I wonder why 🤔

Erinn2

And she's just as useless as Means

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

Never heard of Nicole Saphier, Trump’s new Surgeon General nominee, until today. I’m guessing a lot of us are about to become experts in the myriad ways in which she is unqualified. A cursory search alone is revealing. A person with no experience in public health should not be Surgeon General.

21645d ago
Jay D. Aronson17

Let me guess: blonde, maha, Fox News, anti-vax

Helen Bailey11

She’s a dangerous vaccine skeptic. Encouraging parents to delay shots or go for single shots etc so wrong. The wellness grift selling her snake oil “herbal tinctures” - no no and no She praised Trump in 2020 re his COVID pandemic management! Red flags Nauseating 👇🏼 www.youtube.com/shorts/PSxAu...

mlmcg.bsky.social11

She’s blonde and on Fox voila qualified

Silverman on Security7

Could've been worse, could've been Ladapo.

suslibrarian.bsky.social5

I mean, she HAS a medical license, unlike Means. So…improvement? Kinda?

gacyclist.bsky.social3

Her medical degree is from barbados.

Dan Jago3

She seems to follow the ''we should all get healthy and stop getting ill'' belief.

Magpie3

So far i know 2 things about her, she works at FOX and has no experience. Both are immediately disqualifying.

lynn0908.bsky.social3

I’m sure she will be just as bad. But it’s still a win that the other nominee was kicked to the curb. That means public pressure is having an impact.

Dave Fecak2

Her wikipedia says she was named 2019's Top Radiologist of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals. Their notable members page (www.iaotp.com/notable) includes Scott Baio, Scott Baio's wife Renee, and Scott Baio's daughter Bailey (for Junior Golfer). Three Baios.

Bean & Sprout's Mom2

Well, she's part of the infect-all-the-kids-all-the-time Urgency of Normal gang, so.... h/t @benecal.bsky.social www.urgencyofnormal.com/our-statement

becurb.bsky.social2

He’s running out of Fox hosts to hire….

BigR2

Pro tip: Anyone Trump nominee will be highly unqualified.

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