It’s at least as strong a through-line in American history as our puritanism, sitting in counterpoise to its ascetic, moralistic self-deprivation. The parties were, he said, no different than the patent medicine salesman selling the same product under beguilingly different names: High Papalorum and Low Popahirum. Yesterday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s traveling medicine show made a stop at the White House, where President Trump was the featured barker at an off-the-rails press conference. — Trump has said this about a dozen times during this press conference — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-22T21:34:53.330ZTrump: "It's too much liquid. — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-22T21:29:42.466ZMedical experts, scientists, and public health advocates were aghast at the White House scene.