This month, a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. popped up on my feed. Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, the bronzed, tin-voiced secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services began doing pull-ups. While videos of septuagenarians doing body-weight might be rare if not odd, performing exercises on film has sort of become Kennedy’s modus operandi. Watching this man, who was born in 1954, push and pull his body in aggressive ways is supposed to underscore his job as the man in charge of the country’s health. If he’s healthy, the country must be. But what made this particular video strange was that he was doing these pull-ups at Reagan airport in Washington, DC. 

Behind Kennedy is a departures board. Even farther back are restroom and defibrillator........

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