Does a real unmanipulated video show Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying "conspiracy theorists were right" and the COVID-19 vaccine maybe causes "gayness" and calling Anthony Fauci a "goblin"? No, that's not true: The audio in the video has been altered. An un-altered original video of RFK Jr. originally making the speech shows that he never claims the vaccine causes those problems. The video of the manipulated video has a watermark from a known satirist/troll account.
The claim appeared in a video posted on April 14, 2026, on X.com account @WHGrampa0 (archived here). It opened:
🚨🔥SHOCKING EXPOSURE: RFK JUST SAID IT..
THE "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG -- ABOUT EVERYTHING. UNREAL. BOOOM! [VIDEO]
🚨 🔥 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has detonated a political earthquake by confirming that the so-called "conspiracy theories" about COVID, chemical trails, and government deception were not theories at all -- they were the cold, hard truth, deliberately hidden from the public.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @WHGrampa0 on X.)
The manipulated video opens with RFK Jr. thanking people in the audience. Beginning at 00:18 he appears to make the following remarks:
It is with a heavy heart that I'm announcing that the conspiracy theorists were right again. COVID mRNA vaccines caused a litany of injuries including, including but not limited to: turbo cancer, heart failure, extreme blood clotting and perhaps gayness.
That's a chicken and egg problem that we're still investigating. The implications are substantial and there's no easy way to say this. Anthony Fauci is a goblin and if you weren't gay prior to taking the vaccine there's a massive chance that your sudden desire to binge the Bravo channel and watch Tim Walz rallies isn't an accident.
The video ends with a black screen and the text:
Unreal: lacking in reality, substance, or genuiness
A reverse image search led to a video of RFK Jr. announcing findings of an autism survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as posted on ABC News YouTube channel (archived here). Lead Stories searched the transcript with keywords and did not find any mentions of "COVID" "gayness" or "goblin" as heard in the video posted on X.
At :45 a watermark appears in the upper left corner of the video posted on X, as this screenshot shows (red highlight added by Lead Stories):
(Image source: post by @WHGrampa0 on X.)
The video was posted on X by @MaverickDarby, a self-titled satire account, on April 7, 2025 (archived here).
RFK just admitted the conspiracy theorists were right. About everything. Unreal. pic.twitter.com/OEJAvKYBBg
-- Maverick Alexander (@MaverickDarby) August 7, 2025
The account bio states it is satire, as this screenshot shows:
(Image source: @MaverickDarby on X.)
Had RFK Jr. made remarks calling Fauci a goblin and saying the covid vaccine causes gayness, it would have been major news. A search of keywords on Google News here (archived here) and here (archived here) and Yahoo! News here (archived here) and here (archived here) did not find any legitimate news reports of the comments.
