Two months ago, President Donald Trump picked Dr. Nicole Saphier as his new surgeon general. What surprised many people was that Saphier, who has called herself a Trump supporter since his first term, had spent months bashing the administration and Trump himself online. Now, after her nomination, Saphier seems to have deleted her social media posts.
CNN looked at Saphier’s deleted tweets, which showed a pattern that did not match her new role as a top health official in the Trump administration. The tweets, posted in 2025 and 2026, showed Saphier going against Trump and US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on major health topics, including vaccines and autism.
