Trump's surgeon general pick promotes misleading claims about her education, new investigation shows

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 29 April 2025 18:00 EDT


Questions are swirling about the background of President’s Donald Trump’s pick for Surgeon General and whether she has presented misleading claims about where she was educated. Dr Jannette Nesheiwat has been described by the president as “a double board-certified medical doctor,” and a “proud graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.”

Prior to her nomination as Surgeon General she has been employed as a New York City medical director with CityMD, a group of urgent care facilities and also has appeared on Fox News and other TV shows. However, according to CBS News, Nesheiwat only completed her residency through the university’s family medicine program in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and did not obtain her medical degree there.

She actually earned her degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, in St. Maarten, in the Caribbean, records reviewed by the outlet have shown. AUC also confirmed to CBS that Nesheiwat was enrolled there for six years, from 2000 to 2006. Typically the program includes four years of study, but Nesheiwat was there for six.

Such lengthier study periods have, in recent years, fueled stigma against medical schools in the Caribbean, which have been perceived by some as a last resort for those unable to get into medical school in the U.S.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/surgeon-general-education-jannette-nesheiwat-b2739648.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump only picks people who lie, cheat, steal, misrepresent.

Who else would he hire for his crime syndicate?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. That is because

he is now in the position to "offer them protection" in exchange for them doing his bidding.

[riversedge]

3. Seems to me that Trump team did not vet her and only knew her through her appearences on TV shows.

[riversedge]

4. Nesheiwat's sister, Julia Nesheiwat, is now married to Michael Waltz, Trumps National Security Adviser.

...Notably, Nesheiwat’s sister, Julia Nesheiwat, served as Trump’s Homeland Security adviser in 2020 during the President-elect’s first term in the White House. Julia Nesheiwat is now married to U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, who Trump recently named as National Security Adviser.
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https://floridapolitics.com/archives/709254-janette-nesheiwat-chosen-by-donald-trump-for-surgeon-general/

[Dr. Shepper]

5. The 4y vs 6y thing could be because

She got a masters concurrently? 🤷‍♀️

[yardwork]

10. No indication that she has a masters.

[Simeon Salus]

6. This is the lady who at 13 killed her father with a loaded tacklebox, right?

Loaded handgun in a dropped tacklebox discharged, killing her father and inspiring her shabby Caribbean medical school career.

She's the sister-in-law of Mike Waltz, and knowing somebody is all you need to get appointed under Drumpf.

[DemMedic]

7. All this bashing of schools, Saul Goodman went to University of American Samoa Law School

And everything worked out fine for him.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. The problem is this (from the OP excepts)

the president as “a double board-certified medical doctor,” and a “proud graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.”

It's not a bash of medical schools outside of the U.S. no matter where they are located, it's the LIE that was presented about WHERE this nominee actually went to school

[yardwork]

9. Read the article at the link.

She's misrepresenting her education in many different ways.

[yardwork]

11. I've read about her before. She killed her father.

Nesheiwat’s childhood was also beset with tragedy after she was involved in an incident that killed her father. She was 13 years-old when she accidentally knocked a loaded gun over, which fired and fatally shot her father in the head.

[skypilot]

12. I just saw the picture of her at the link.

I think I know why he picked her.

[mwb970]

13. Has trump ever hired ANYONE for ANY job who was actually qualified for that job?

I mean, anyone whom he did not fire shortly afterwards?

[BurnDoubt]

14. Give him a break. Mengele is dead...

At least she doesn't look like Ivanka. Confirmed after she gave him his "Physical"?????