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Trump Pick’s Embarrassing Posts Blasting ‘Petty’ President Emerge
May 6, 2026
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John Lamparski / Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s next top doctor has been caught deleting posts in which she was critical of the president and his health policies. Dr. Nicole Saphier, whom Trump has tipped to be his surgeon general, appears to have been particularly unimpressed by the president’s deeply personal and highly public spat with Elon Musk last year, according to an archived version of a now-deleted June 2025 post, first reported by CNN.
She described the men’s online exchange as “petty, loud obnoxious,” and said it was “like watching two billionaires throw sand in a sandbox,” or “grown adults acting like toddlers in a tiara fight.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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