US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gone viral after posting a video of himself grabbing two live snakes with his bare hands during a visit to Mehmet Oz’s Florida home.
The clip, shared on X, showed Kennedy attempting to remove two black racer snakes tangled together on the patio of Oz’s beachfront Palm Beach property while his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, reacted in disbelief nearby.
Kennedy captioned the video: “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio.”
The snakes were identified as black racers, a nonvenomous snake species commonly found across the southeastern United States.
Kennedy’s snake incident adds to a long list of unusual wildlife-related stories involving him, including a claim that he cut off the head of a whale carcass that had washed ashore in Massachusetts years ago.
