2026-05-06T09:00:50.996Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：安德鲁·卡钦斯基、梅格·蒂雷尔
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发布于2026年5月6日美国东部时间早上5:00
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就在唐纳德·特朗普总统提名她为卫生部长的两个月前，妮可·萨皮尔医生曾暗示，本届政府有意隐瞒美国麻疹疫情大范围扩散的事实，直至美国失去“消除”麻疹状态的消息在中期选举后才会公布。
萨皮尔在当年3月写道：“看起来他们可能不想在中期选举前承认美国已经不再具备麻疹消除状态了。”（原文拼写有误）
来自妮可·萨皮尔的X平台账号
该帖目前已被删除，萨皮尔在2025年和2026年发布在X平台上的其他多条批评本届政府卫生政策、并直接攻击特朗普本人的推文也已被删除。
美国有线电视新闻网“K档案”栏目审核的已删除社交媒体帖文显示，这位前福克斯新闻医疗专栏撰稿人曾多次公开与特朗普以及美国卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在多项极具政治敏感性的卫生议题上决裂，其中包括疫苗政策与自闭症关联问题。她还对特朗普本人的健康状况提出了质疑。
萨皮尔同时也是纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心的放射科医生，目前已将自己的X账号设为私密状态。她已删除的帖子仍可在互联网档案馆“时光机”项目中查看，美国有线电视新闻网通过查看仍对粉丝开放的她的账号，核实了这些帖子确实已被删除。
萨皮尔自称自特朗普第一任期起就是其支持者，她在2025年就职日发布了一条仍可见的推文，配文是一张她与特朗普的合影拼贴画：“过去的8年堪称疯狂，能亲历其中我倍感荣幸。废除并替代奥巴马医改、新冠疫情、《让美国再次健康》计划，我有幸作为前排观众见证历史正在被创造。欢迎回来，总统先生@realDonaldTrump——接下来的4年将会十分忙碌，我已准备就绪 🇺🇸”
现年44岁的萨皮尔还著有多部作品，包括2020年出版的《让美国再次健康》和2021年出版的《恐慌攻击：在抗击新冠疫情中借政治操弄科学》，并主持播客节目《健康揭密》。她同时也是保健品公司DropRx的创始人。
在白宫撤回对前福克斯新闻撰稿人珍妮特·内谢瓦特医生以及健康网红凯西·米恩斯医生的提名后，萨皮尔成为特朗普的第三任卫生部长人选。
白宫发言人库什·德赛告诉美国有线电视新闻网：“妮可·萨皮尔医生是一位杰出的医生，曾在纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心从事放射科工作，她一直直言不讳地呼吁乳腺癌预防、反对过度严苛的新冠防疫强制令、反对科学政治化，并揭露联邦政府在美国慢性病流行中扮演的角色。她将成为特朗普总统的得力助手，不知疲倦地推进他的《让美国再次健康》计划的各个方面。”
推文直指特朗普
2025年6月，在特朗普与埃隆·马斯克公开交恶期间，萨皮尔在一条已删除的推文中嘲讽总统和马斯克“小气、聒噪、令人讨厌”，称这场冲突“就像看两个亿万富翁在沙坑里扬沙子”。她还补充道，布拉沃电视台主持人安迪·科恩很可能正“垂涎三尺”地看着“成年人像戴皇冠的小孩一样打架”。
萨皮尔还多次批评特朗普关于孕期使用泰诺的言论。此前特朗普公开敦促孕妇避免服用该药物，称有未经证实的说法将其与自闭症挂钩，并告诉女性“硬扛”而非服用该药缓解疼痛或发烧。
“作为三个孩子的母亲，我不喜欢一个男人告诉我在孕期要‘硬扛’。言辞很重要，事实同样重要。”她在2025年9月的一条已删除推文中写道。同一周，萨皮尔在另一条已删除推文中转发了一期播客，称泰诺与自闭症相关的科学证据“远未定论”。
来自妮可·萨皮尔的X平台账号
一个月后，萨皮尔批评特朗普在真相社交平台上发布的告诫孕妇不要服用泰诺的帖子。“这已经不是他第一次或第二次这么说了。显然有人在私下里对总统说了些什么，公众有权了解支撑这些言论的相关数据。”她在2025年10月的一条已删除帖文中说道。
几天后，萨皮尔写道：“我儿子高烧不退，我现在都在纠结要不要给他服用泰诺。有没有未向公众公开的、证明药物对儿童有害的数据？还是说泰诺‘争议’纯粹是夸大其词和主观臆断？不用说，我很生气。”这条帖子同样已被删除。
2025年10月，特朗普透露自己接受了核磁共振成像检查，但未说明检查原因，萨皮尔随后公开质疑特朗普的健康透明度。
“很多人都在质疑总统的核磁共振检查，我也有疑问。”萨皮尔在10月的一条已删除帖文中写道。但她同时也抨击了部分提出质疑的人：“很难认真看待这些人，因为他们从未对新冠自然免疫、疫苗、口罩令、封锁措施，以及拜登有时无法连贯表达句子这些事提出过质疑。”
转向更主流的提名人选
本届政府近期一直在试图遏制肯尼迪领导的卫生与公众服务部引发的部分混乱，尤其是在疫苗政策方面——该议题在中期选举前被视为不受欢迎的政治议题。上个月，白宫提名埃丽卡·施瓦茨医生担任美国疾病控制与预防中心主任，这是一位更传统的公共卫生人选，一位白宫官员告诉美国有线电视新闻网，她满足了一项关键标准：“我们只需要一个不‘疯疯癫癫’的人。”
作为肯尼迪盟友的米恩斯，其提名因参议员质疑其从业经验与疫苗立场而停滞。米恩斯未完成外科住院医师培训，也未持有有效行医执照。萨皮尔作为专注于乳腺癌治疗的在职放射科医生，在特朗普上周提名她后获得了不少赞誉，但也有一些人——比如特朗普第一任期的卫生部长杰罗姆·亚当斯医生——指出：“2026年了，我们真不该再强调这一点。”不过他仍称萨皮尔是“合适的人选”。
肯尼迪以52票对48票的投票结果确认担任卫生与公众服务部部长的当天，萨皮尔攻击了唯一投下反对票的共和党议员米奇·麦康奈尔的健康状况。
“米奇·麦康奈尔投票反对《让美国再次健康》计划，这是一个自身年龄和健康状况都已亮起红灯的人最极致的‘我过得很好，谢谢’式表态。”她在2025年2月13日一条未删除的帖文中写道，“是时候退休了，先生。”
萨皮尔警告肯尼迪主导的改革正在制造“混乱”
在一系列现已删除的推文中，萨皮尔还多次批评肯尼迪对联邦疫苗政策和信息发布的全面改革，尤其是针对疾控中心及其免疫实践咨询委员会（简称ACIP）。肯尼迪在2025年6月对该委员会进行了大换血，用意识形态盟友替换了原有成员，这些人被指散布关于疫苗的虚假或误导性言论。
2025年6月，萨皮尔在一条已删除推文中引用参议员比尔·卡西迪的观点，辩称尽管ACIP需要改革，但新任命的成员缺乏关键专业知识。“新任命的成员缺乏思想多样性和专业领域专长，尤其是在数据解读方面。”她写道。
一名联邦法官在3月认同了这一观点，裁定替换ACIP成员的程序未遵循联邦法律，且“根据最宽松的解读，目前ACIP的15名成员中，似乎只有6人拥有任何有意义的疫苗相关经验”。原定于3月召开的委员会会议已被取消，且尚未重新安排。
这一裁决也给特朗普政府对儿童疫苗接种计划的修改带来了不确定性。同月，萨皮尔写道：“疾控中心的疫苗接种计划悬而未决，ACIP的地位岌岌可危，前路不明。该体系确实需要改革，但不是混乱。这场改革把钟摆摆得太远了。是时候进行有分寸的重置，秉持透明和数据驱动的指导原则了。”
萨皮尔实时批评了肯尼迪亲自挑选的疫苗咨询委员会的决定。在2025年9月的另一条已删除推文中，萨皮尔指责ACIP在麻疹、腮腺炎、风疹和水痘联合疫苗问题上充当“守门人”，尽管美国食品药品监督管理局仍在评估该疫苗对幼儿的安全性。她警告，相互矛盾的指导意见会让家长“困惑”，让儿童“更少得到保护”。
“FDA和疾控中心应该达成一致。他们还在疑惑为什么公众信任度持续下降。”她写道。
来自妮可·萨皮尔的X平台账号
在2025年9月另一条已删除的帖文中，萨皮尔评论了前疾控中心主任苏珊·莫纳雷斯与肯尼迪之间的公开争执。莫纳雷斯声称自己曾被要求预先承诺批准ACIP的疫苗推荐建议，肯尼迪否认了这一指控。
“这种‘他说她说’的闹剧荒谬至极，对我们的公共健康事业危害极大。”她写道。
其他已删除的帖文显示，萨皮尔曾公开敦促政府重新审议废除并替代《平价医疗法案》，而非专注于她所说的肯尼迪领导的卫生与公众服务部由媒体驱动的宣传。
“近期卫生与公众服务部发布了不少头条新闻和言论，但几乎没有真正能推动我国国民健康的内容。”萨皮尔在2025年8月写道，“特朗普总统从阿拉斯加返回后，是时候重新审议废除并替代法案了——因为持久的变革来自政策，而非新闻稿。”
美国有线电视新闻网的埃姆·斯特克为本报道撰稿。
Exclusive: Deleted tweets reveal new surgeon general pick criticized Trump and RFK Jr. health policies
2026-05-06T09:00:50.996Z / CNN
By Andrew Kaczynski, Meg Tirrell
2 hr ago
PUBLISHED May 6, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
Dr. Nicole Saphier appears on FOX Nation’s “Love, Mom: The Live Show” at Fox News Channel Studios on April 3, 2024, in New York City.
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Just two months before she was selected as President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier suggested the administration was hiding that measles was spreading widely enough in the United States for the country to lose its “elimination” status until after the midterm elections.
“Seems like they may not want to admit the U.S. Measles elimination status is is (sic) gone until after midterm elections,” Saphier wrote in March.
From Nicole Saphier/X
That post has since been deleted, along with numerous others from Saphier’s X account posted in 2025 and 2026 criticizing the administration’s health policies and attacking Trump personally.
Deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN’s KFile show the then-Fox News medical contributor repeatedly broke publicly with Trump and US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on some of the administration’s most politically sensitive health issues, including vaccines and autism. She also raised questions surrounding Trump’s own health.
Saphier, who also works as a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, recently set her X account to private. Her deleted posts are still viewable on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and CNN was able to verify they were deleted by viewing her account, which is still visible to followers.
A self-described Trump supporter since his first term, Saphier posted a still-public tweet on Inauguration Day 2025 alongside a photo montage of her with Trump. “It’s been a wild 8 years and I’m grateful to have been a part of it. Repeal & Replace➡️COVID➡️MAHA, I have been privileged to have a front row seat while history is being made. Welcome back, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump — the next 4 years will be busy and I’m ready for it 🇺🇸”
Saphier, 44, is also the author of several books – including “Make America Healthy Again,” published in 2020, and “Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19,” published in 2021 — and hosts the podcast “Wellness Unmasked.” She is also the founder of DropRx, a supplement company.
She became Trump’s third choice for surgeon general after the White House withdrew the nominations of former Fox News contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat and wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means.
Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, told CNN, “Dr. Nicole Saphier is an accomplished physician who has practiced radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and has been an outspoken voice on breast cancer prevention, intrusive COVID-19 mandates, the politicization of science, and the federal government’s role in America’s chronic disease epidemic. She will be a powerful asset for President Trump and work tirelessly to deliver on every facet of his MAHA agenda.”
Tweets took aim at Trump
In one deleted June 2025 post during Trump’s public feud with Elon Musk, Saphier mocked the president and Musk as “petty, loud, & obnoxious,” writing that the clash was “like watching two billionaires throw sand in a sandbox.” She added that Bravo host Andy Cohen was likely “salivating” watching “grown adults acting like toddlers in a tiara fight.”
Saphier also repeatedly criticized Trump’s messaging surrounding Tylenol use during pregnancy after the president publicly urged pregnant women to avoid the medication over unproven claims linking it to autism and told women to “tough it out” rather than take it for pain or fever.
“As a mom of 3 kids, I don’t love a man telling me to ‘tough it out’ when it comes to pregnancy. Words matter. Facts matter too,” she wrote in a since-deleted post from September 2025. That same week, Saphier linked in another deleted tweet to a podcast episode calling the science linking Tylenol to autism “far from settled.”
From Nicole Saphier/X
A month later, Saphier criticized a Trump post on Truth Social telling pregnant women not to take Tylenol. “This isn’t the first or second time he has said this. Obviously something was said to POTUS behind closed doors and the public deserves transparency on the data presented to substantiate these statements,” she said in the since-deleted post from October 2025.
Days later, Saphier wrote, “My son has a high fever and I’m angry that I am now questioning giving him Tylenol. Do data exist showing harm to kids that haven’t been shared with the public or is the Tylenol ‘controversy’ purely hyperbolic and conjecture? Needless to say, I’m mad.” That post has also been deleted.
Saphier also publicly questioned Trump’s own health transparency after he disclosed in October 2025 that he had undergone an MRI without specifying what it was for.
“Lots of people questioning POTUS MRI — I have questions too,” Saphier wrote in one deleted post from October. But she also took aim at some of those raising the questions. “It’s hard to take some of these people seriously as they failed to have questions on Covid natural immunity, vaccines, masking, shutdowns and the fact Biden couldn’t string together a coherent sentence at times.”
A move toward more mainstream nominees
The administration has moved recently to curb some of the chaos emanating from Kennedy’s HHS, particularly around vaccine policy, seen as a politically unpopular issue heading into the midterms. Last month, the White House nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz for director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a more traditional public health pick who satisfied a key criterion a White House official told CNN was necessary: “We just need someone who’s not crazy.”
Means, an ally of Kennedy’s, saw her nomination stall as senators questioned her experience and stance on vaccines. Means didn’t finish her surgical residency and doesn’t hold an active medical license. Saphier’s status as a practicing radiologist focused on breast cancer won her praise after Trump nominated her last week, although some – such as Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general from Trump’s first term – noted, “In 2026, we really shouldn’t have to highlight that.” Still, he called her a “solid pick.”
On the day Kennedy was confirmed as HHS secretary in a 52-48 vote, Saphier attacked Mitch McConnell — the only Republican to vote against him — over his own health.
“Mitch McConnell’s vote against Make America Healthy Again is the ultimate ‘I’m good, thanks’ from a man whose own age and health are waving the white flag of defeat,” she wrote on February 13, 2025, in an undeleted post. “Time to retire, Sir.”
Saphier warned Kennedy-led reforms were creating ‘chaos’
In a series of now-deleted tweets, Saphier also repeatedly criticized Kennedy’s overhaul of federal vaccine policy and messaging, particularly surrounding the CDC and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, known as ACIP. Kennedy gutted the committee in June 2025 and repopulated it with ideological allies who’ve been accused of spreading false or misleading statements about vaccines.
In a deleted June 2025 tweet citing Sen. Bill Cassidy, Saphier argued that although ACIP needed reform, new appointees lacked key expertise. “The newly appointed members are lacking diversity of thought and areas of expertise, especially in data interpretation,” she wrote.
A federal judge agreed in March, ruling that the replacement of ACIP members didn’t follow federal legal procedures and that “of the fifteen members currently on ACIP, even under the most generous reading, only six appear to have any meaningful experience in vaccines.” A planned March meeting of the group was canceled and hasn’t yet been rescheduled.
That ruling also led to uncertainty over changes the Trump administration made to the childhood vaccine schedule, and that same month, Saphier wrote: “The CDC vaccine schedule is in limbo, the status of ACIP up in the air and no clear path forward. The system needed reform, but not chaos. The pendulum swung too far in the overhaul. Time for a measured reset, with transparency and data driven guidance.”
Saphier criticized Kennedy’s handpicked vaccine advisory group’s decisions in real time. In another deleted post from September 2025, Saphier accused ACIP of acting as a “gatekeeper” around the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine despite the US Food and Drug Administration continuing to consider the vaccine safe for young children. She warned the conflicting guidance was leaving parents “confused” and children “less protected.”
“Get on the same page FDA/CDC. And they wonder why trust keeps dropping,” she wrote.
From Nicole Saphier/X
In another since-deleted September 2025 post, Saphier commented on the public dispute between former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and Kennedy after Monarez alleged that she had been instructed to pre-commit to approving ACIP vaccine recommendations, an accusation Kennedy denied.
“The he said/she said is ludicrous and horrible for our public health,” she wrote.
Other deleted posts showed Saphier publicly urging the administration to revisit repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act rather than focusing on what she described as media-driven messaging from Kennedy’s HHS.
“Plenty of headlines and soundbites coming out of HHS lately, but few will truly move the needle on our nation’s health,” Saphier wrote in August 2025. “When President Trump returns from Alaska, it’s time to revisit repeal and replace—because lasting change comes from policy, not press releases.”
CNN’s Em Steck contributed to this report.