{"id":1534733,"date":"2025-05-07T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1534733"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:15:00","slug":"trump-nominates-maha-aligned-dr-casey-means-as-surgeon-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trump-nominates-maha-aligned-dr-casey-means-as-surgeon-general\/1534733\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Nominates MAHA-Aligned Dr. Casey Means As Surgeon General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Trump Nominates MAHA-Aligned Dr. Casey Means As Surgeon General<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-nominates-maha-aligned-dr-casey-means-as-surgeon-general-5854080?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\"><em>Authored by Jeff Louderbeack via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump announced on May 7 that Dr. Casey Means<\/strong> &#8211; a functional medicine physician aligned with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. &#8211; <strong>to be his new nominee for surgeon general after withdrawing his initial pick for the role.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20-%202025-05-07T155713.905.jpg?itok=dsq3Qdae\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a Truth Social post, Trump said that <strong>Means has \u201cimpeccable \u2018MAHA\u2019 credentials,\u201d<\/strong> referencing the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d platform introduced by Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Means will work to eradicate chronic disease and improve the health and well-being of Americans, Trump added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cHer academic achievements, together with her life\u2019s work, are absolutely outstanding,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Initially, Trump nominated Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for the surgeon general post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nesheiwat, a medical doctor for an urgent care company, was originally scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>Means graduated from Stanford University Medical School.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Her brother, Calley Means, is also a Kennedy ally who serves as a special government employee at HHS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 05\/07\/2025 &#8211; 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/trump-nominates-maha-aligned-dr-casey-means-surgeon-general\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/trump-nominates-maha-aligned-dr-casey-means-surgeon-general<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Nominates MAHA-Aligned Dr. Casey Means As Surgeon General Authored by Jeff Louderbeack via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced on May 7 that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1534734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}