RFK Jr. accused of faking MAHA workout

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on a mission to get America healthy — by working out in jeans alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth while delivering awkward commentary, Knewz.com can report. The duo joined forces inside a gym for the “Pete & Bobby Challenge” and called on another Cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, to do the workout, too, in what they hope is the next viral trend. However, viewers seemingly weren’t encouraged or inspired, with some instead focused on accusing RFK Jr. of faking working up a sweat.

Hegseth, who claimed to have done 100 pushups and 50 pullups in under six minutes, worked out in gym shorts and sneakers while RFK Jr. struggled to do the challenge in jeans and boots. “It’s all about Make America Healthy Again, we’re gonna be fit, not fat, we want recruits that are ready to go,” Hegseth said in the promotional clip, with the secretary of Health and Human Services adding, “Pete and I are going to do our part to encourage American youth to do this challenge.” However, the pair were accused of “editing” the video to make it seem like they were going above and beyond as they exercised. One commenter on X criticized the pair, writing, “Neither one of you did a real pushup. Pete would fail this,” while another added, “This is cringe and does nothing to make people healthy in reality. It’s just a nice show for the morons to be like ‘wow, look at them go, they are so fit.’” Another social media poster reacted, “I love how they had to cut around [RFK Jr.] wheezing and dying,” while yet another commenter wrote, “This is cringe! Get President Trump in there!”

This marked the second time in as many weeks that RFK Jr. was buried by social media. The 71-year-old previously met up with Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to take a hike at the Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs, Colo., for another uncomfortable video that featured the pair listing the health benefits of physical activity. “God talks to us through many vectors … but nowhere with such texture, grace, joy and detail as through creation,” RFK Jr., again wearing jeans on his outing, said during their outing, which some critics felt was overly staged. “We come here because this is the way that God talks to us, to link us to our creator, to link us to the 20,000 generations of human beings that were here before laptops.”

The clip showed former TV personality Dr. Oz, 65, claiming the country would save “$100 billion in health expenses” if people “walked 15 minutes a day.” RFK Jr. urged the cardiothoracic surgeon, “Mehmet, we got to go. This mountain is not going to climb itself.” Both men then attempted to scale a rock, with both struggling to do so. “So how do we get down?” Oz asked before they figured out how to descend in a visibly awkward manner.

Hike also mocked