The White House’s MAHA Gatekeeper
PoliticsThe White House’s MAHA GatekeeperA policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again” activists.By Michael Scherer and Tom BartlettIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg / Getty; U.S. Let’s do it,’” Rogan announced weeks later, when he stood behind the president in the Oval Office for the signing of an executive order on psychedelic therapies.
- ▪PoliticsThe White House’s MAHA GatekeeperA policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again” activists.By Michael Scherer and Tom BartlettIllustration by The Atlantic.
- ▪Source: Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg / Getty; U.S.
- ▪Let’s do it,’” Rogan announced weeks later, when he stood behind the president in the Oval Office for the signing of an executive order on psychedelic therapies.
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PoliticsThe White House’s MAHA GatekeeperA policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again” activists.By Michael Scherer and Tom BartlettIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg / Getty; U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.July 24, 2026, 6:30 AM ET ShareSave The world’s most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, reached out privately in April to the world’s most powerful man, Donald Trump, to discuss the healing power of ibogaine, a psychedelic made from the root bark of a Central African shrub that researchers are studying as a treatment for addiction and trauma. Trump responded by text, “‘Sounds great.
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