‘WORSE THAN DISAPPOINTMENT’

Multiple siblings of former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent the weekend condemning their family member after he suspended his campaign and endorsed the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, defying the Kennedy family’s decades-long association with the Democratic Party.

Kerry Kennedy, RFK Jr.’s sister, went scorched-earth on cable shows against her brother, claiming she was planning to “separate and disassociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father’s memory.”

“I think if my dad were alive today, the real Robert Kennedy would have detested almost everything Donald Trump represents,” Kerry told Jen Psaki, the former Joe Biden press secretary, on her MSNBC show on Sunday. “I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump.”

Kerry, one of RFK Sr.’s 11 children, has had a long career as a human rights lawyer and serves as the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights—the nonprofit established shortly after his assassination on the campaign trail for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. She was also married to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, before they divorced in 2005.

She was also one of five members of the northeastern political dynasty to sign on to a statement denouncing the endorsement. Other signatories included four of their siblings: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Chris Kennedy, and Rory Kennedy.

“I love my brother, but this is an outrage,” Kerry had earlier told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday night. When the CNN anchor asked the Kennedy heiress if she had spoken to her brother recently, she gave a frank “no” for an answer.

“I saw him a few weeks ago at my daughter Mariah’s wedding. But Bobby knows my view and feelings very, very well,” she added.

Max Kennedy, another younger sibling of RFK Jr., made his own statement, publishing an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday that echoed many of Kerry’s points.

“His is a hollow grab for power, a strategic attempt at relevance,” Max wrote of his brother. “It is the opposite of what my father admired: ‘the unselfish spirit that exists in the United States of America,’” quoting a speech his father gave at the University of Kansas in 1968.

Max insisted he still loved his brother, but hated his move to endorse the Republican nominee.

Actor Billy Baldwin has ripped into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Baldwin, 61, the younger sibling of Alec Baldwin, said in a lengthy X post on Sunday evening that he’d known Kennedy, 70, for decades. They have been photographed together over the years: Baldwin was spotted alongside Kennedy and daughter Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy at Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas’ wedding ceremony in New York City in 2012.

“We were friends,” he wrote. “I loved his politics. His speeches inspired me. We were neighbors. Our kids were friends. We carpooled the kids to school for a few years.”

The actor went on to denounce Kennedy for running for president in the first place, saying it was “a Hail Mary” by a “desperate” man with political ambition who “saw the door rapidly closing.”

“For him to end his pursuit of the presidency and endorse Trump is not only a betrayal of the values and traditions of the Kennedy family but it is also a cynical, hypocritical betrayal of his own political beliefs and personal feelings about Trump which have been publicly documented for years and years,” Baldwin wrote.

“His endorsement of Trump demonstrates his political cowardice. He has sold his political soul and desecrated the historic work and legacy of his father Robert and his uncle President John Kennedy.”

Meanwhile, the former independent candidate appeared on Fox News Sunday, where he spoke more on the possible rift opening up in his family.

“I understand that they’re troubled by my decisions,” RFK Jr. told host Shannon Bream. “But you know what—I love my family. I feel like we were raised in a milieu where we were encouraged to debate each other and debate ferociously and passionately about things, but to still love each other. They are free to take their positions on these issues.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter shared a whale of a tale more than a decade ago, but it went viral for the first time over the weekend.

Around 1994, Kennedy caught wind that a dead whale had washed up on a beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and rushed out to the scene with a chainsaw and 6-year-old Kick in tow. He cut the whale’s head off, secured it to the roof of his minivan with bungee cords, and made the five-hour drive back to the family’s home in New York.

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recalled. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

That “media control” extended to multiple embarrassing news cycles about his various run-ins with all manner of creatures great and small over the years. First, in May, came a New York Times report about how doctors in 2010 discovered that a parasitic worm had entered his brain and then died. Kennedy quickly confirmed this to be true.

Then, in July, Vanity Fair reported that Kennedy had the previous year texted a friend a photo of him “with the barbecued remains of what he suggested to the friend was a dog.” Kennedy rejected this, saying the dead animal he’d been pictured with had been a goat.

The hits kept coming, though, and a full month hadn’t gone by before Kennedy went on social media to admit—in an attempt to get ahead of a forthcoming New Yorker story—that he was the guy who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park in an infamous incident more than a decade ago.

“We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it,” Kennedy said in the video.

And that’s without even getting into the thousand-cubic-foot freezer he keeps stocked full of roadkill meat.