RFK Jr. and Trump: A New Political Alliance | Silver Shield Weekly Minted Coin

It’s been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows. The recent political alliance between the heir to the Kennedy Democrat dynasty, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Republican Donald J. Trump certainly epitomizes that axiom.

Or does it?

Many people say that if RFK, Jr.’s uncle, President John (Jack) F. Kennedy, were alive today, he would be considered a Republican. We believe that the President’s nephew would agree.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. (as did his uncle Jack) supports patriotism; freedom of speech; individual freedom; economic promise; freedom of religion; the US Constitution; and the Rule of Law as does Pres. Trump. And today RFK, Jr. is also opposed to the “war on our children” and the war in Ukraine, just as it would have been for his brother, and as it is for Trump.

Although five of Kennedy’s siblings, most notably four are women, recently asserted that they were “disgusted” by RFK, Jr’s “betrayal of their Dad’s values”, they are not being honest in their pronouncement. The truth is that their father, Bobby Kennedy. Sr., also supported Republicans when he felt it was necessary. These men included the controversial Sen. Joesph McCarthy. Joe went on to become one of Bobby Kennedy, Sr.’s closest friends and godfather to his first-born child.

Similarly, in 1956, when Bobby Kennedy became disenchanted with the candidates that the Democrat Party chose for their presidential and vice-presidential candidates, including Adlai Stevenson, he voted for Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower instead. He also feuded with fellow Democrats Gore Vidal and Roy Cohn.

In fact, this desire to jump ranks extends not only to RFK. Jr’s father Bobby, but his grandfather Joe Kennedy and his uncle Ted Kennedy as well. They all took this approach one step further when they either supported the Democrat challengers to a sitting Democrat president or they entered the Democrat primaries themselves, in opposition to sitting Democrat presidents.

Grandfather Joesph P. Kennedy served as a delegate for James Farley, who was challenging sitting Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the 1940 Democratic National Convention. In 1968, RFK, Jr’s father Sen. Bobby Kennedy, Sr. announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States against sitting President Lyndon B. Johnson. And his uncle, Sen. Teddy Kennedy jumped into the Democrat primary, in opposition to sitting President Jimmy Carter in 1980. These were idealistic men, and for them, party lines were fungible.

So, although Kennedy and Trump seem, at first glance, to be strange political bedfellows, their alliance is not unprecedented. The Kennedy clan has been voting their political conscience for over 70 years.

And with Chris’ coin, RFK Jr. For Trump, RFK Jr. is memorialized as just the current representative of generations of Kennedy men for whom that propensity “trumps” all else.