RFK Jr. Didn’t ‘Run Away’ from the Fainting Man in the Oval Office—Here’s What Really Happened

Things got chaotic in the White House on Thursday, November 6, when a guy suddenly collapsed right in the middle of President Donald Trump announcing big price cuts on weight-loss drugs.

The whole moment blew up online almost instantly, and a lot of people started wondering why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to bolt from the room while everyone else was freaking out.

It happened during a press conference in the Oval Office. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who’s now running the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, was talking about the president’s plan to make GLP-1 drugs like those from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk more affordable when the man hit the floor behind the Resolute Desk.

Staff immediately yelled “Press out!” and the White House Medical Unit rushed in. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later said the guy was doing fine after quick care.

Dr. Oz jumped in to help, while Trump stayed at the desk facing the cameras. But Kennedy got a ton of heat online for apparently “fleeing” the scene.

Turns out, that’s not what happened at all. Someone who was there told PEOPLE that Kennedy actually left the room to grab stuff to help.

“He thought the guy just needed to sit down at first, so he went and got a chair from the other room,” the insider said. “Then he came back with a wet towel. When they were trying to prop the man up, Kennedy ran and grabbed the chair again.”

White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai wasn’t having any of the online criticism. He fired back at one X post calling Kennedy out: “The Secretary rushed to get medical assistance while others tended to the man, you ghoul.”

The source added that the man looked rough—pale, struggling to sit up. They eventually laid him back down and wheeled him out on a gurney.