梅恩斯促成了唐纳德·特朗普总统与小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪的结合。这位肯尼迪顾问周四的辞职表明，至少在许多肯尼迪支持者眼中，这并非天作之合。
Means brought President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. together. The Kennedy adviser’s resignation Thursday shows it wasn’t a match made in heaven, at least as far as many Kennedy supporters are concerned.
政府官员表示，梅恩斯的离职源于他对特朗普身边人士阻挠肯尼迪劝阻美国人食用垃圾食品的努力感到沮丧。
Means’ departure, administration officials said, was the result of his frustration with resistance inside Trump’s orbit to advancing Kennedy’s efforts to discourage Americans from eating junk food.
这只是肯尼迪的“让美国再次健康”运动对特朗普政府感到失望的最新证据。对共和党而言，时机再糟不过。中期选举距今不足两周，民主党正全力争取肯尼迪的粉丝。
It’s just the latest evidence that Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement is disappointed with the Trump administration. For Republicans, the timing couldn’t be worse. The midterms are less than two weeks away and Democrats are making a concerted push to woo Kennedy’s fans.
“肯尼迪部长是英雄，但他对我们运动的承诺正因白宫最高层的企业俘获和特殊利益而受阻，”“让美国再次健康”运动影响者瓦尼·哈里周五在社交媒体平台X上写道。她多年来一直倡导从美国食品中去除有害成分。
“Secretary Kennedy is a hero but his commitments to our movement are being stalled by corporate capture and special interests at the very top of the White House,” Vani Hari, a MAHA influencer who has advocated for years for the removal of harmful ingredients in American food, wrote on the social media platform X Friday.
民主党试图利用这种幻灭感。同样在周五，智库美国进步中心发布了一份全面的政策大纲，敦促“进步派重新夺回领导权”，主导“让美国再次健康”运动核心的食品和化学品安全议程。该智库的使命是帮助左翼磨砺政策主张。
Democrats are trying to capitalize on the disenchantment. Also on Friday, the Center for American Progress, a think tank whose mission is to help the left hone its policy ideas, released a sweeping policy outline, urging “progressives to reclaim leadership” of the food and chemical safety priorities at the center of the MAHA movement.
“由于特朗普政府的失信，民主党拥有更开阔的空间来吸引那些对特朗普2024年当选至关重要的‘让美国再次健康’选民，”美国进步中心主席、克林顿、奥巴马和拜登政府前顾问尼拉·坦登表示。
“Because of the broken promises of the Trump administration, Democrats have a more open field to attract the MAHA voters who were important to President Trump's election in 2024,” said Neera Tanden, CAP’s president and a former adviser in the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations.
2024年初，肯尼迪在塔克·卡尔森的播客节目中听到梅恩斯的发言后，两人一见如故。当时梅恩斯正在推广一本即将出版的关于美国人健康的书，他主张美国人需要通过改善饮食和锻炼来减肥，而不是余生依赖减肥药。
Means and Kennedy first hit it off after Kennedy heard him on an episode of Tucker Carlson’s podcast in early 2024. Means, who was promoting a forthcoming book on Americans’ health, made the case that Americans needed to eat better and exercise to lose weight, rather than taking weight-loss drugs for the rest of their lives.
两人在得克萨斯州的一个健康疗养胜地的汗蒸帐篷里结识，随后米恩斯加入了肯尼迪的总统竞选团队。在特朗普于7月幸免于一次暗杀未遂后，米恩斯协助安排了特朗普与肯尼迪之间的一次通话，次月，肯尼迪退出竞选并背书特朗普。
The two bonded in a sweat tent at a Texas wellness retreat, and Means joined Kennedy’s presidential campaign. After Trump survived an assassination attempt that July, Means helped arrange a call between him and Kennedy that led, the following month, to Kennedy dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump.
米恩斯陪同肯尼迪前往华盛顿，并在政府内部主导推动，旨在通过修改膳食建议和促使食品制造商去除人工色素来提升美国食品质量。他在媒体、华盛顿会议和社交媒体上也是肯尼迪的积极代言人，指责肯尼迪的批评者为他所指责的导致美国人患病的食品和制药行业效力。
Means accompanied Kennedy to Washington and led a push inside the administration to improve food quality in America by changing dietary recommendations and getting food makers to remove artificial dyes. He also was a vociferous Kennedy surrogate in the press, at Washington conferences and on social media, accusing Kennedy critics of working for the food and pharma industries he blames for making Americans sick.
米恩斯在X平台发帖宣布离职时未解释辞职原因，但表示他是“怀着对特朗普总统和小肯尼迪的极大敬意”离开的——“两位致力于对抗腐败的华盛顿官僚体制的历史性人物”。白宫发言人艾莉森·舒斯特在给《政客》的一份声明中赞扬了米恩斯，称他“为‘让美国再次健康’（MAHA）运动做出了了不起的工作”。她还为特朗普政府在MAHA目标上取得的进展进行了辩护，包括更新联邦膳食指南、推动去除食品供应中的人工成分，以及投资再生农业。
Means didn’t explain why he resigned in an X post announcing his departure, but said he was leaving “with tremendous respect for President Trump and RFK [Jr.] — two historic figures who are committed to confronting a corrupt DC bureaucracy.”Allison Schuster, a White House spokesperson, praised Means in a statement to POLITICO, saying he had "done a fantastic job for the MAHA movement. She also defended the Trump administration’s progress on MAHA goals, including updating the federal dietary guidelines, pushing to remove artificial ingredients in the food supply, and investing in regenerative farming.
她写道：“‘让美国再次健康’联盟在特朗普总统身上找到了一位捍卫者……特朗普总统和肯尼迪部长继续日夜奋战，为美国人民争取更多胜利。”
"The MAHA coalition has found a champion in President Trump… President Trump and Secretary Kennedy continue to work around the clock to deliver more wins for the American people,” she wrote.
米恩斯的辞职发生在他原定于本周与肯尼迪和白宫官员举行会议、讨论制定超加工食品定义的会议被推迟之后。“那是压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草，”一位获准匿名讨论米恩斯想法的政府官员说。
Means’ resignation followed the postponement of a meeting he was scheduled to attend this week with Kennedy and White House officials to discuss creating a definition of ultraprocessed foods. “That was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said one administration official granted anonymity to discuss Means’ thinking.
另一位特朗普政府官员在获准匿名发表坦率言论的情况下表示，他们希望米恩斯的离职能激发“让美国再次健康”（MAHA）运动。“还有很多事要做，而且有很多有权势的人反对它，”这位官员说。
Another Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said they hoped Means’ departure would galvanize the MAHA movement. “There is much yet to do and there are plenty of powerful people who oppose it,” the official said.
肯尼迪及其盟友认为，正式界定超加工食品可以将美国人的饮食引导远离卫生部长指责为导致该国慢性病流行的食品。肯尼迪最初承诺今年春天会出台定义，但行业的抵制延缓了这一进程。
Kennedy and his allies believe that formally defining ultraprocessed foods could redirect Americans’ diets away from foods that the health secretary blames for the country’s chronic disease epidemic. Kennedy first promised a definition would come this spring, but industry pushback delayed the effort.
代表食品行业客户的传播顾问肖恩·麦克布赖德表示，米恩斯的离职“是‘让美国再次健康’食品政策议程正在迅速消退的又一个信号”。他称该议程苛严。“它给我们的食品生产施加了许多不必要的限制、管制和强制规定，”他说。
Sean McBride, a communications consultant whose shop represents food industry clients, said Means’ departure “is another signal that the MAHA food policy agenda is fading rapidly.”He called the agenda draconian. “It puts a lot of restraints and clamps and mandates on our food production that are unwarranted,” he said.
超加工食品定义受挫是“让美国再次健康”运动今年遭遇的众多挫折之一，其中包括白宫于4月决定撤回米恩斯的妹妹凯西·米恩斯担任卫生局局长的提名。凯西·米恩斯在听证会上对疫苗表示温和支持后失去了参议院共和党的支持，没有足够的票数获得确认。
The setback on the ultraprocessed food definition was one of many for MAHA this year, including the White House’s decision in April to withdraw the nomination of Means’ sister, Casey Means, to serve as surgeon general. Casey Means lost GOP support in the Senate after her lukewarm endorsement of vaccines during a hearing and did not have the votes for confirmation.
许多“让美国再次健康”支持者在2月开始对共和党感到幻灭，当时特朗普签署行政命令促进草甘膦的生产，草甘膦是全球最畅销除草剂“农达”的有效成分。肯尼迪及其许多支持者认为它致癌，但政府也支持“农达”生产商拜耳，助其在最高法院成功诉请屏蔽未来指控该公司掩盖癌症风险的诉讼。
Many MAHA supporters began to feel disillusioned with the GOP in February when Trump issued an executive order to promote the production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world. Kennedy and many of his supporters believe it causes cancer, but the administration also backed Bayer, the producer of Roundup, in its successful Supreme Court bid to shield itself from future lawsuits claiming the company covered up cancer risks.
除了农药，“让美国再次健康”支持者还对卫生部新提名人选表示不满，对肯尼迪未能将mRNA疫苗撤市以及食品安全规则进展缓慢感到不满。
Apart from pesticides, MAHA supporters have also expressed upset with new Health Department nominees, Kennedy’s failure to remove mRNA vaccines from the market and slow progress on food safety rules.
本月初，肯尼迪竞选团队的前顾问发布了一份评分表，指责特朗普政府违背了对“让美国再次健康”（MAHA）运动的承诺。MAHA影响者、人称“草甘膦女孩”的凯利·赖尔森；肯尼迪前首席演讲稿撰稿人查尔斯·艾森斯坦；以及肯尼迪竞选团队前筹款人戴夫·墨菲均支持该评分表。
Earlier this month, former Kennedy campaign advisers released a scorecard accusing the Trump administration of breaking its commitments to MAHA. Kelly Ryerson, a MAHA influencer known as “Glyphosate Girl;" Charles Eisenstein, Kennedy’s former chief speechwriter; and Dave Murphy, a former fundraiser for Kennedy’s campaign, supported the scorecard.
曾为肯尼迪竞选团队工作并撰写该评分表的蒂芙尼·钱奇在一份新闻稿中表示：“我曾深信MAHA所代表的承诺……但信仰从不应意味着盲目忠诚。”
"I believed deeply in the promise that MAHA represented… But belief was never supposed to mean blind loyalty,” Tiffany Cianci, who worked on Kennedy’s campaign and authored the scorecard, said in a press release.
特朗普第一任期内的卫生部官员大卫·曼斯多弗表示，肯尼迪的MAHA盟友正面临一个现实：共和党的大帐篷内包含与该运动对立的利益集团。
David Mansdoerfer, a Health Department official in the first Trump administration, said Kennedy’s MAHA allies were running up against the reality that the GOP tent includes interests that oppose it.
他写道：“它正遭遇其他同样强大且根深蒂固的派系，这些派系持有不同的价值观和优先事项。”
“It is encountering other equally strong and entrenched factions that carry different values and priorities,” he wrote on