RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm News Horrifies Potential Voters: ‘This Guy Wants to Be President?’

Social media users don’t quite know how to react to learning a parasite ate a portion of the presidential hopeful’s brain

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. attends a SiriusXM Town Hall at The Centre Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Credit: Lisa Lake/Getty Images)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. attends a SiriusXM Town Hall at The Centre Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Credit: Lisa Lake/Getty Images)

It should be a rarity for an absurd joke on social media to be proven true. That’s the position several users on X found themselves in when it was revealed Wednesday that presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once had a literal brain worm.

This deeply disturbing factoid came courtesy of the New York Times on Wednesday. The paper of record reported that, in 2012, doctors found that Kennedy had a dead parasite in his brain. The dark spot that appeared on his medical examination “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy said in a deposition.

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