Fox News’ Jesse Watters poked fun at RFK Jr.‘s 2001 incident with a dead raccoon in a recent interview. The political commentator and TV host posed a playful question for the HHS Secretary about the bizarre encounter.
RFK Jr. hit with a raccoon question by Jesse Watters
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently appeared on the Monday segment of “Jesse Watters Primetime.” At the end of the conversation, Watters made a playful allusion to the Health and Human Services Secretary’s alleged encounter with a dead raccoon in the past.
After discussing the return of the Presidential Fitness Test and Donald Trump’s executive order on regenerative farming, Watters concluded the interview by asking Kennedy if he’ll “leave the raccoons alone.” The HHS Secretary made a cheeky response, saying, “Yes. For the moment.”
Watters was referring to an alleged incident detailed in journalist Isabel Vincent’s book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise.” According to the biography, Kennedy had once severed a dead raccoon’s penis after spotting the animal during a family trip in 2001.
Vincent cites a diary entry by Kennedy, where he wrote, “I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road-killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be.” The excerpt continues, “My kids waited patiently in the car.” He later explained to PEOPLE that he collected the body part to “study them later.”
This isn’t the only time Kennedy’s fascination with animal anatomy has surfaced. The HHS Secretary’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, detailed another such incident in a 2012 interview with Town & Country magazine. She recalled that her father had once severed the head of a whale carcass during a family trip to Massachusetts when she was little.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car,” Kick recalled. “It was the rankest thing on the planet,” she added.
