Former President Trump and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have raised fluoride in water as a public health measure to be addressed if Trump retakes the White House.

Over the weekend, Kennedy wrote on the social media platform X, "On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water." He then made the claim, without citing evidence that fluoride is "industrial waste" that causes a list of harms.

Trump has expressed an openness to this rule, telling NBC News, “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds OK to me,”

Since Kennedy joined the Trump ticket, campaign officials have said the environmental lawyer and prominent conspiracy theorist would have immense influence over public health........

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