Trump's third surgeon general pick is deleting old posts critical of president's agenda and fitness
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 06 May 2026 12:25 EDT
Dr Nicole Saphier, the third person nominated to be surgeon general by President Donald Trump, has been hurriedly deleting old social media posts critical of his administration, according to a report.
Saphier – a Fox News medical contributor, working radiologist, and author of books including Make America Healthy Again – was given the nod by Trump after the nominations of Dr Janette Nesheiwat and Dr Casey Means had to be withdrawn over a lack of congressional support. However, CNN reports that, despite her MAGA leanings, the doctor posted a number of messages questioning the Trump administration’s policies on issues like autism and vaccines in 2025 and earlier this year.
The 44 year-old nominee also publicly questioned the president’s reassurances regarding his own wellbeing and fitness. Saphier has made her X account private but, the network points out, the deleted posts are still viewable via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
In one example from last June, she derided Trump and Elon Musk over their very public falling out as the world’s richest man’s tenure in the White House came to an end. She called their competing insults on rival social media platforms “petty, loud and obnoxious” and compared the feud to “watching two billionaires throw sand in a sandbox.”
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-surgeon-general-nicole-saphier-posts-b2971634.html
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