RFK Jr. Reveals Whether He Will Run For President In 2028

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put all rumors to rest.

In recent days, rumors have surfaced that RFK Jr. is planning to run for President in 2028.

However, in his latest post on X, Kennedy explained that he would not be running for president anytime soon.

ABC News had the entire scoop on Kennedy’s announcement:

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday ruled out running for president in 2028, apparently defending himself against accusations by conservative influencer Laura Loomer that he and top aides are quietly preparing for another White House bid as Kennedy runs America’s health apparatus.

“The swamp is in full panic mode,” Kennedy wrote in a lengthy post on X. “DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me, hoping to thwart our team from dismantling the status quo and advancing [Trump’s] Make America Healthy Again agenda.”

“They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m running for president in 2028. Let me be clear: I am not running for president in 2028.”

In the post, Kennedy also defended his longtime aide and deputy chief of staff at HHS, Stefanie Spear, whom Loomer accused in a Politico interview this week of trying “to lay the groundwork for a 2028 RFK presidential run.”

In his X post, Kennedy defended Spear, calling her “a fierce, loyal warrior for MAHA who proudly serves in the Trump Administration and works every day to advance President Trump’s vision for a healthier, stronger America.”

Spear served as press secretary for Kennedy’s failed presidential campaign, which ended last August with an endorsement of Trump.

Here’s RFK’s full response:

The swamp is in full panic mode. DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me, hoping to thwart our team from dismantling the status quo and advancing @POTUS’ Make America Healthy Again agenda. They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m…

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 15, 2025

Full text:

The swamp is in full panic mode. DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me, hoping to thwart our team from dismantling the status quo and advancing @POTUS’ Make America Healthy Again agenda. They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m running for president in 2028. Let me be clear: I am not running for president in 2028.

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My loyalty is to President Trump and the mission we’ve started. Their attacks on my staff, especially Stefanie Spear — a fierce, loyal warrior for MAHA who proudly serves in the Trump Administration and works every day to advance President Trump’s vision for a healthier, stronger America — are proof we’re over the target. We’ll keep moving forward, we’ll keep delivering wins, and no smear campaign will stop us.

President Trump is delivering on every promise beyond my wildest dreams — ending war, protecting free speech, rebuilding American industry and the American middle class, delivering transparency and gold standard science, and breaking the grip of entrenched interests.

The president has made himself the answer to my 20-year prayer that God would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic — and that’s exactly what my team and I will do until the day he leaves office.

Here was the report from Forbes Kennedy was possibly responding to:

Trump loyalist Laura Loomer is openly campaigning to blunt Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influence in Trump’s orbit, claiming a 2028 presidential run by Kennedy would be a threat to MAGA as he is a former Democrat whose previous environmental advocacy work doesn’t align with Trumpism.

Loomer is targeting Kennedy and several of his top staffers, including deputy chief of staff and senior counselor Stefanie Spear, President Donald Trump’s surgeon general nominee Casey Means and top FDA vaccine regulator Vinay Prasad, accusing them of disloyalty to Trump, she told Politico Playbook this week.
Loomer previously accused Kennedy of being “a very problematic person” who is “running a shadow presidential campaign” from within the Trump administration, she told The New York Times in July.

Last month, Loomer also advocated for Prasad’s ouster by leading a series of attacks against him, including highlighting his previous support for Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential bid, and a video in which Prasad appeared to joke about using a voodoo doll against Trump to “curse” him over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.