“Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper took on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday for unveiling a new, upside-down food pyramid while rolling out new dietary guidelines last week.
Kennedy, during a press briefing at the White House, remarked on the look of the inverted food pyramid and claimed that the model “was actually upside-down before and we just righted it.”
Klepper teased the health secretary over his “simple, logical graphic.”
“You know what? I’m pretty sure this one is upside down, unless I’m misremembering every pyramid photo I’ve ever seen,” quipped Klepper alongside an image of flipped Egyptian pyramids.
The comedian also poked fun at Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former talk show host who now serves as Donald Trump’s administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Oz told reporters that, in the “best-case scenario,” he doesn’t think people should drink alcohol.
“Ah, great news, we’re not in the best-case scenario right now,” Klepper cracked.
Klepper later joked that the Department of Health and Human Services was spreading the word about the new dairy and protein-focused guidelines through “the most dynamic, charismatic spokesperson”: Ben Carson, Trump’s former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Carson, in a clip shared to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s X page, drinks a glass of milk before calmly declaring that it’s “good stuff.” The video concludes with a fake milk mustache edited onto Carson’s face with the caption, “Drink Whole Milk. #MilkMustacheMoment.”
“You’re making Ben Carson drink a glass of milk? The drink that famously helps us fall asleep at night? Are you insane? If Ben Carson gets any sleep, he could die,” Klepper said.
Watch more of Klepper’s Tuesday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
