Trump replaces controversial surgeon general pick with MAHA favorite

President Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for US surgeon general and has instead nominated Dr. Casey Means.

“Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” the president announced in a Truth Social post.

The announcement was celebrated by prominent members of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Dr. Means is a Stanford-educated surgeon and a strong critic of the medical establishment, which she says teaches doctors “how to drug, how to cut, and how to bill.” Along with her brother Calley, who previously worked as a Big Pharma lobbyist, Dr. Means has repeatedly called out the corruption in US public health agencies that has contributed to America’s chronic disease epidemic, such as approving the use of dangerous toxins in food products.

Nesheiwat: An establishment doctor

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, on the other hand, faced opposition from many Republicans and MAHA devotees, though Trump only pulled her nomination this week when it became clear she would not have the votes for confirmation. Nesheiwat has drawn fierce criticism for her calls for censorship and aggressive promotion of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines during the pandemic. Referring to the vaccines as “a gift from God” that is “nothing short of miraculous,” she repeatedly urged Americans to take the injections.

In April 2021, Nesheiwat downplayed adverse events from the vaccines despite the absence of long-term data and parroted the government's talking point that “the benefits outweigh the risks.” She also falsely claimed the vaccine stopped transmission of the virus. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only admitted this was false in late July 2021, Nesheiwat could not have made that claim based on scientific data. Pfizer admitted to having no data on the vaccine’s effect on transmission, and even the World Health Organization (WHO) had already said that vaccination was ineffective at stopping the spread of the virus. At the time, the only reason to think the mRNA vaccines stopped transmission was because media pundits and government doctors said so.

In January 2022, Nesheiwat urged Americans to get the booster shots: “The best way to protect yourself if you haven’t already is to get that vaccine, get that third dose, get the booster. And of course, if you’re in crowded public areas, indoors, wear a mask to protect yourself.”

Child vaccinations and masking

When urging Americans to get vaccinated, Nesheiwat also pushed child vaccination and masking for all children over two years old. When Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo asserted that masks were ineffective at protecting against the virus, Nesheiwat disagreed: “Masks have saved thousands of lives and prevented thousands of infections,” she claimed. Overwhelming scientific evidence shows Ladapo was correct.

Pro-censorship

Although it would later become clear that her claims and recommendations were not based on real scientific data, Nesheiwat urged social media platforms to censor users who challenged them.

“First of all, vaccines save lives,” she told a Fox News panel. “And I am so excited, and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this [vaccine misinformation] affects everyone. This affects our children, it affects adults . . . it’s about time that they are taking action and I hope and pray that other social media platforms will follow suit and do the same thing.”

Eventually, Nesheiwat appeared to reverse her approach, though she did not apologize for her errors. She criticized the Department of Defense for discharging unvaccinated soldiers and slammed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for kids. In 2023, she wrote on X that “natural immunity is the best protection” and admitted that the vaccine “does not prevent disease.”

Nonetheless, many users took to social media to express their opposition to Nesheiwat’s appointment as US Surgeon General.

“Trump's pick for Surgeon General, Janette Nesheiwat, praised Facebook for censoring ‘anti-vaccine’ sentiment & wanted other companies to do the same. Silencing those raising legitimate concerns about an experimental vaccine is wrong. Shame on her!” wrote physician and America’s Frontline Doctors founder Dr. Simone Gold on X.

Julia Nesheiwat: A key globalist insider

Nesheiwat’s sister, Julia Nesheiwat, is married to Mike Waltz (R-FL), who was recently removed as national security advisor after reportedly causing the Signalgate scandal and now awaits confirmation as UN ambassador. 

In 2020, Julia served as homeland security advisor, after being appointed a year before as Florida’s first chief resilience officer. She has also been a member of globalist organizations like the World Economic Forum, where she sat on its Global Advisory Council, and is still a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. The Atlantic Council is a “think tank” whose board includes several former CIA directors and other high-level intelligence officials. According to congressional testimony from investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is “one of the most established and influential full-time censorship institutions in the world.”

The Atlantic Council has been serving as a coordinating hub between tech giants and the State Department to censor undesirable political views in the US and Europe. In 2018, Facebook announced an “election partnership” with the Atlantic Council and authorized it to declare which accounts and posts were “election misinformation.”

Julia also served as an international fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist organization that arguably wields more power than the World Economic Forum or the Atlantic Council. Admiral Chester Ward, a former judge advocate general of the US Navy and CFR member for 16 years, said the council’s goal is the “submergence of U.S. sovereignty into an all-powerful one-world government.”

“In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as ‘America First’,” added the late admiral.

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