‘Let them eat liver’: RFK Jr. mocked as Marie Antoinette after suggesting Americans eat liver over beef to avoid wasting on groceries | EUROtoday

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been mocked on-line, with some evaluating him to the final Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, after suggesting Americans eat liver over beef to avoid wasting on groceries.

Speaking at an occasion for MAHA Action, an advocacy group aimed toward advancing the Make America Health Again motion, Kennedy mentioned, “Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive.”

“If you buy a Porterhouse steak or a strip steak, it is gonna set you back,” the well being secretary mentioned. “You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable.”

A clip of Kennedy’s feedback was shared on X Friday and was met with a collection of mocking posts, suggesting the secretary was out of contact.

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Democratic Representatives Ted Lieu of California and Nikki Budzinski of Illinois shared photographs of Kennedy’s face edited onto the physique of Marie Antoinette, who grew to become an emblem of egocentric luxurious as her individuals went hungry.

As the story goes, the French queen was informed the general public had no bread, so she mentioned, “Let them eat cake.” While there isn’t any proof Marie Antoinette really mentioned these phrases, the quote caught and is now getting used to name out the Trump administration’s response to Americans’ cost-of-living issues.

“Let them eat liver,” Lieu and Budzinski jokingly quoted Kennedy as saying.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requested President Donald Trump in an X publish, “Is liver on the menu tonight at the Mar-a-Lago dining room? Or is that just for the rest of America?”

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Representative Jimmy Gomez shared an advert from the president’s former “Trump Steaks” enterprise enterprise with a photograph of a platter of steaks and the tagline “The World’s Greatest Steaks.” Next to that photograph was an edited picture of the identical advert however with the phrases “Trump Liver,” a platter of the iron-rich organ meat and the tagline “The World’s Cheapest Liver.”

“What Trump promised vs what we got,” the California Democrat mentioned.

Comedian Jay Black wrote: “For the masses: liver and cheap cuts. For the rich: steak and zero consequences. For RFK Jr.: bear carcass and toilet seat cocaine. It’s not a fair world.”

Black was referring to Kennedy’s admissions that he as soon as dumped a lifeless bear in New York City’s Central Park and used to snort cocaine off rest room seats.

X consumer Jamie Bonkiewicz wrote, “We could afford beef when [former President Joe] Biden was president. Now RFK Jr. says, ‘Just eat liver, peasants’ Are we great yet?”

The Independent has reached out to the Health and Human Services Department for remark.

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Uncooked floor beef was up 17.2 p.c and raw beef steaks had been up 12.9 p.c final month in comparison with the identical time the 12 months earlier than, in keeping with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index.

These beef costs make it more durable for Americans to comply with the Department of Agriculture’s new dietary pointers, which counsel Americans eat extra protein and fewer complete grains.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was additionally mocked on-line final month for suggesting an reasonably priced, however uninteresting meal of “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing” throughout a NewsNation interview.

Rollins’ suggestion was known as a “depression meal” and in comparison with jail meals.

“Private jets and tax breaks for them and their rich friends, and one piece of broccoli *AND* a tortilla for you!” Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, the husband of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, wrote on X.