Trump Nominates Fox News Contributor For Surgeon General | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump is nominating Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon basic, ending the bid of his prior decide, Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer with an inactive medical license who dropped out of her residency program.

Saphier is a board-certified radiologist and the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Likely extra critically for Trump, she’s additionally been a contributor on Fox News.

Trump’s first decide for surgeon basic, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, was additionally an everyday on Fox News. As with Means, Nesheiwat’s nomination didn’t go wherever.

Trump didn’t acknowledge Means or Nesheiwat in his assertion Thursday.

“I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” he wrote.

“Nicole is a STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women facing breast cancer through their diagnosis and treatment while tirelessly advocating to increase early cancer detection and prevention, while at the same time working with men and women on all other forms of cancer diagnoses and treatments.”

If confirmed, Saphier can be anticipated to tell and set the tone for Americans on all issues of well being, together with vaccination.

Like Means, who expressed skepticism in regards to the efficacy of vaccines throughout her affirmation hearings, Saphier seems to harbor anti-vaccine sentiments.

In 2022, Saphier falsely claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would imminently require all schoolchildren to be vaccinated for COVID-19. The lie was then repeated advert nauseam on Fox News, together with by Tucker Carlson.

In different media appearances, she’s expressed obscure assist for the measles vaccine whereas additionally inflating the dangers posed by the vaccine itself.

Elsewhere on social media, Saphier may be seen condemning the American Academy of Pediatrics for releasing an evidence-based immunization schedule that conflicts with the CDC’s, after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ― a vaccine skeptic ― pushed the CDC to cease recommending sure routine vaccines for youths.

Saphier additionally actually wrote a guide, printed in 2020, known as “Make America Healthy Again,” a slogan Kennedy has was the tagline of his tenure on the Department of Health and Human Services.

And in line with her Fox News roots, Saphier additionally appears to have robust opinions about gender.

In one Fox News clip from 2025, Dr. Saphier slams Disney for what she says is the “demasculinization” of film characters.

“People are not interested in a lot of these woke ideologies, especially men,” she mentioned. “You have to get back some of that testosterone and that adventure and, I’m sorry, but these movies just don’t cut it.”