President Donald Trump has seemingly settled on a nominee for the position of Surgeon General, after withdrawing the nomination of Casey Means for the role on Thursday. In a Truth Social post, the president announced that he will instead be nominating radiologist Nicole Saphier.

“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,” the president said.

“She is also an INCREDIBLE COMMUNICATOR, who makes complicated health issues more easily understood by all Americans. Dr. Nicole Saphier will do great things for our Country, and help, ‘MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.’”

Saphier earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Ross University School of Medicine in Portsmouth, Dominica, and later served as a physician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a professor at the University of Cornell’s medical school.

In 2020, Saphier authored the book “Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis” and became an early proponent of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement espoused by now-Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and adopted by Trump.

Like many MAHA figures, Saphier was intensely critical of what she framed as the weaponization of science during the COVID-19 pandemic, accusing Democrats and mainstream media outlets of capitalizing on fear and a lack of information in order to advance political power and craft a narrative.

“The politicizing of science makes the job of scientific discovery much harder … influencing research and closing off important deliberations on the outcomes,” she wrote in her 2021 book “Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19.”

She was also openly critical of mask and vaccine mandates and most forced closures, instead advocating for clear messaging on voluntary risk reduction to prevent contamination and avoid the more draconian measures that characterized the COVID-19 era.

Saphier has also voiced her support for pro-life positions and policies, citing her own experience becoming pregnant at the age of 17 and her decision to carry her son. In a 2019 Fox Newsop-ed, Saphier blasted Alabama state Rep. John Rogers (D) for a speech opposing pro-life legislation.

“Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later,” Rogers said at the time. “Some parents can’t handle a child with problems. It could be retarded. It could have no arms and no legs.”

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