President Trump nominates Dr. Nicole Safier as US Surgeon General
President Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Nicole Safier to be the next U.S. Surgeon General after confirmation of the previous nomination stalled.
Dr. Nicole Safier is President Donald Trump’s new pick to be the U.S. Surgeon General, so we’re looking into what she said about a variety of health issues.
President Trump’s former nominee, Dr. Casey Means, faced opposition in the Senate over her lack of a medical license and her views on vaccines, stalling her confirmation.
Safir is a breast radiologist and has been a Fox News contributor since 2018. She is the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Monmouth and an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, specializing in breast and tumor imaging.
In addition to his medical role, Safieh has the title “farmer” on his Instagram profile and shares posts about gardening and raising chickens on social media.
She also promoted her wellness tincture brand Drop RX on social media. Disclosures of her involvement with the company can be found on her memorial Sloan Kettering bio page.
Here’s what she had to say about a variety of health topics:
Nicole Safier talks about vaccines
Safia shared mixed views on vaccines, blaming the Biden administration, not Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or President Trump, for the public’s mistrust of vaccines on a September 2025 radio show.
Regarding claims that vaccines cause cancer or autism, he explained that evidence directly linking vaccines to either is limited and inconclusive. Most major health organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization, deny any link. She emphasized the importance of measles and polio vaccinations, while questioning the mandate for hepatitis B and specific boosters.
On her podcast, Wellness Unmasked, she talked about how her “old friend and colleague at Fox News”, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, ended his mandate for influenza vaccines for the military.
What does she think? “Some will call this a victory for medical autonomy, others will say it puts preparedness at risk. And as always, the truth is definitely somewhere in the middle, and definitely more nuanced than that,” she said.
She added that she promotes “risk-based (vaccine) recommendations, not one-size-fits-all,” and has become more vocal about this during COVID-19.
Nicole Safier talks about cancer
A radiologist who specializes in breast and body imaging, she “uses a variety of imaging techniques to achieve the best cancer care for patients,” she writes in her bio in Memorial Sloan Kettering.
“I have experience performing minimally invasive, image-guided surgeries for the breast, kidney, pancreas, liver, thyroid, and lymph nodes. These procedures help patients avoid surgery for the diagnosis and management of cancer,” the bio adds.
In announcing his nomination at Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I have spent my career guiding the diagnosis and treatment of women facing breast cancer, tirelessly advocating for increased early detection and prevention of cancer, and working with men and women on the diagnosis and treatment of all other forms of cancer.”
Nicole Safier talks mental health
In a segment on the Wellness Unmasked podcast, Safia recognized the seriousness of mental health and its connection to physical health.
She noted that some people underestimate mental health challenges, but they can lead to real physiological changes. She cited stress as an example of how it can increase cortisol levels and inflammation.
In a segment on Fox News, she said that one of the causes of mental illness in children is being raised in non-traditional families, which target the transgender community in ways that have no scientific support.
Nicole Safier talks about new dietary guidelines
Safieh has been promoting the new dietary guidelines set out by RFK Jr. earlier this year.
In a January segment on Fox News, she also praised President Trump’s Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, saying, “Hallelujah for bringing back common sense when it comes to milk and kids.”
Experts say the biggest potential pitfall of consuming large amounts of full-fat dairy products is their high fat content. Only 10% of your daily calories should come from saturated fat, According to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, this percentage can be easily achieved or exceeded by consuming dairy products alone.
Contributor: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and Mary Walras-Holdridge
