President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is being ridiculed on social media for telling an audience at CPAC this weekend that the President “drew a perfect map of the Middle East” on a placement.
Kennedy first said of the President: “He has an encyclopedic molecular knowledge on these, this array of very eclectic interests — music, Broadway shows, pro wrestling, football, every sport, golf, and business, Wall Street, he knows how everyone made their money, what deals they made.”
Kennedy followed that with a story he said took place when campaigning with Trump in 2024. He said that on an airplane with Trump, while eating McDonald’s and drinking a Diet Coke: “We started talking about Syria. And he got a placemat and he turned it on its back and then he took a Sharpie and drew perfect map of the Mideast. And he put the troops on every country on every border on that map.”
Kennedy said, “It challenged a lot of the assumptions, that I had been told…he has this extraordinary depth of knowledge of what’s happening in each one of the agencies.”
RFK JR: I was on the plane with Trump, He got a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map…He has this extraordinary depth of knowledge…pic.twitter.com/aurS0w4juv
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 29, 2026
Kennedy’s claim about Trump drawing a perfect map is being pummeled on social media and met with satirical maps as if Trump drew them. As seen below, one includes a McDonald’s placemat with a maze leading from the corporate clown Ronald McDonald to other fictional characters including the Burglar and Mayor McCheese.
Perfect drew pic.twitter.com/xD308EaJyM
— ®️רונן פלד Ronen Peled (@ronen_peled) March 29, 2026
photo of map pic.twitter.com/Zzf6WJ4ZPZ
— VoidScreamer (@theun4seen) March 29, 2026
The placemat pic.twitter.com/j9tLIyNdM3
— Betajuice (@NycMsk) March 29, 2026
Other Trump critics, inspired by Kennedy’s Trump Sharpie story, responded by recirculating photos of Trump in 2019 incorrectly saying that Alabama was one of the states that would be hit by Hurricane Dorian. Though the Alabama weather bureau said it was not in the path, Trump insisted his comment was correct and in the Oval Office showed reporters a weather map which had been altered with a black Sharpie to falsely show the hurricane on track to hit Alabama. The Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy is also referred to as Sharpiegate.
YOU GUYS, I GOT A PICTURE OF IT!!! pic.twitter.com/BLpPKvQxxM
— GOP Jesus (@GOPJesusUSA) March 29, 2026