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.
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.
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