RFK Jr. posts video of himself wrangling live snakes at Dr. Oz home

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on May 26, 2026

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tuesday posted a video of himself wrangling live snakes on the patio at Dr. Oz’s Florida beach house.

The health secretary grabbed the two or three hissing North American racer snakes in the corner of the deck as his TV star wife Cheryl Hines tried in vain to get him to stop.

“You are nuts!” Hines tells RFK Jr. as the A-list members of President Trump’s cabinet enjoyed the sunny Memorial Day weekend in Palm Beach. “Honey, honey, let it go,”

As RFK Jr. held the snakes by their tails, one of them bit him on the finger, prompting another shriek of dismay from the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star.

“Oh my God!” Hines exclaimed. “Bobby, Bobby, please!”

“Are they biting?” asked a man who sounded like Oz. “Yeah,” Kennedy replied, looking at his finger that apparently took a hit.

Black racer snakes are not poisonous but can cause a pinprick sensation if they bite. They are common in the southern U.S.

Kennedy, 72, whose father was slain presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, has made headlines with what critics say is an assault on the American public health establishment. A longtime skeptic of vaccines, he has questioned the safety and effectiveness of some childhood jabs and has presided over the worst outbreaks of measles in decades.

Oz, the onetime star of TV’s “Dr. Oz,” serves as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He ran a losing 2022 Senate campaign in Pennsylvania.

It’s not RFK Jr.’s first odd newsworthy event involving animals.

Long before Trump tapped him, Kennedy admitted to dumping a road-kill bear in Central Park in 2014 as part of a purported staged accident with a bicycle.

As a young father, RFK Jr. once used a chain saw to hack the head off a dead whale that he found on a Massachusetts beach and tied it to the top of his car for a drive to New York, according to his daughter, Kick.