RFK Jr. Takes the Family Swimming on Mother’s Day—in a Toxic Creek

The New York Daily News reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unusual Mother’s Day outing.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrated Mother’s Day with his family by swimming in a contaminated Washington, D.C. creekused for sewer runoff.

“Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek,” Kennedy captioned an online photo putting him at the scene of the grime.

The National Park Service explicitly warns that Rock Creek is not safe for humans or animals.

“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health,” the park’s department states on its website.

Swimming in D.C.’s rivers and streams has been banned since 1971 due to “high amounts of fecal bacteria from combined sewer overflows.” Signs at Rock Creek Park specifically tell visitors to stay out of the water to prevent illness.

Kennedy’s decision-making skills have been called into question, even by members of his own family.

“When RFK Jr decided to run [for president in 2024], he didn’t call me to ask for help because he knew I would oppose his candidacy due to his misguided stands on issues, his poor judgement and tenuous relationship with the truth,” said his nephew Stephen Kennedy Smith, according to NBC News.

RFK Jr. quickly dropped out of the race and teamed up with Trump, who then tapped him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in November.

Dozens of Nobel Prize winners and thousands of medical professionals warned that the political scion, who has no medical training, wasn’t fit to run the nation’s health programs. His conspiracy theory-based skepticism on vaccines has repeatedly raised red flags.

Kennedy’s own health has also raised concerns.

In April 2024, the New York Times reported that he once testified a parasitic worm ate part of his brainand died inside his head. He also said he’s been diagnosed with mercury poisoning, likely caused by eating fish carrying the dangerous metal.

Doctors with experience treating such ailments reportedly said patients can suffer permanent damage from those afflictions. Kennedy told the Times that wasn’t his experience.

He has not addressed his decision to swim in Rock Creek.

This guy is in charge of public health?

moeone2015 says:

May 14, 2025 at 12:10 pm

I am not at all surprised that RFK Jr would take his grandchildren swimming in polluted water. No surprised at all. His worm invested brain has definitely impacted his ability to think rationally about anything.

What I am totally surprised about is that the parents of his grandchildren would allow RFK Jr to take those kids swimming in water that is clearly known to be polluted. He must have a death wish for his Grandchildren and himself.

I think this is a very strong case for child abuse on the part of RFK Jr the parents of those kids. I think a child protective agency should be taken these adults to jail. If this is an example of how these children are taken care of, what else is going on in that family that is not in the best interest of the children.

God help those kids because their parents and RFK Jr do not care what happens to them.

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Joel says:

May 14, 2025 at 12:16 pm

Let him do us a favor and die the terrible death he is condemning some unvaccinated

children to.

May 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm

I strongly believe what RFK Jr did by taking his Grandchildren swimming in the polluted water is child abuse. I strongly believe that RFK Jr and the children’s parents should be investigated by a Child Protective Service, hauled into jail, and taken to court. What other abusive activities have been taken against those children by RFK Jr and their parents.

Can’t believe the children’s parents allowed RFK Jr take those children swimming in the polluted waters. Their brains must also be infected with worms.