The Daily Populous Saturday April 18th, 2026 morning edition
Authored by theguardian.com and submitted by ThePensiveE

Robert F Kennedy Jr once cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon in an incident that is just one of several involving dead animals that the controversial US health secretary has been involved in.

A new book called RFK Jr: The Fall and Rise was published this week and reveals a diary entry for Kennedy that describes the prominent vaccine critic and leader of the “Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement stopping his car on a New York highway on 11 November 2001.

“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,” Kennedy wrote in the journal.

He added: “My kids waited patiently in the car.”

Isabel Vincent, the author of the new book, told People that he took the raccoon’s genitals so he could “study them later”.

Kennedy has long had a fascination for animal bodies, especially those he finds dead which he sometimes collects and studies. Elsewhere in the book, the author notes that a journalist traveling with Kennedy in Long Island in 2001 reported that he was fascinated by dead seagull corpses.

“I’d like to pick up some of these dead seagulls for my skull collection,” the book quotes Kennedy as saying, though his schedule on the day did not allow him to pause his journey and harvest the bones.

There have been numerous stories involving Kennedy and his treatment of dead animals.

Environmental groups were outraged over a story which revealed the former presidential candidate once severed the head of a washed-up deceased whale with a chainsaw and strapped it to his car’s roof. He also once confessed to dumping a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park, attempting to make it look like the creature was killed by a bicyclist.

the_elephant_stan on April 17th, 2026 at 17:16 UTC »

Here's a list of all the weird shit he did as reported in the story:

Took the raccoon's penis so he could study it later Collected dead seagulls for their skulls Used a chainsaw to sever the head of a dead whale Dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park to make it look like a cyclist killed it

And this is the stuff we know about! I wish we could post gifs here so I could share the one of Dennis saying he finds animal skins fascinating.

alfadasfire on April 17th, 2026 at 17:03 UTC »

Weird but yeah. Why doesn't that surprise me. At least the raccoon was dead.

high_capacity_anus on April 17th, 2026 at 17:02 UTC »

Yeah. I can believe that.