Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. posted a bizarre video on X Sunday in which he recounts to comedian Roseanne Barr the time he threw a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park a decade ago.
In the video, RFK and Barr sit around a table in a home as the independent candidate tells his story. He explains that he is trying to get a head start on a story The New Yorker is working on.
RFK said he was taking a group of people falcon hunting in Goshen, New York, about a two-hour drive north of New York City.
RFK told Barr that he was driving when a woman in a pickup truck in front of him hit a young bear and killed it.
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“So I pulled over, picked up the bear, and put it in the back of my truck because I was going to skin it … and put the meat in my refrigerator,” RFK says, as Barr listens, visibly shocked. He points out that the practice is legal in New York State under certain conditions.
RFK Jr. said he thought throwing the bear into Central Park would amuse people. (X/@RobertKennedyJr)
RFK said he continued to sell with his group of acquaintances and ended up staying late. Instead of going home, RFK said he had a dinner obligation in New York.
RFK then admits, without elaborating, that he had to go to the airport after dinner and was unable to return home.
“I didn’t want to leave the bear in my car because that would have been bad,” RFK said.
He says that at the time – it was 2014 – there had been “a series of bicycle accidents”, some of which resulted in the deaths of several people.
Comedian Roseanne Barr listens to RFK Jr. tell a 10-year-old story. (X/@RobertKennedyJr)
RFK tells Barr that he had an old bicycle in his car and that he had the idea to put the bear in Central Park and “pretend he got hit by a bicycle.”
“Everybody thought, ‘That’s a great idea.’ So we decided to do it,” RFK said, noting that he hadn’t been drinking, unlike his acquaintances. “And we thought it would be fun for whoever found it.”
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The prank apparently caught on the next day. According to RFK, “it was on every TV channel and on the front page of every newspaper.”
RFK Jr. seen with comedian Roseanne Barr. (X/@RobertKennedyJr)
“I turned on the television and there was a mile of yellow tape. And there were 20 police cars. There were helicopters flying overhead. And I thought, ‘Oh my God. What have I done?'” RFK said, noting that his fingerprints “were all over that motorcycle.”
“Fortunately, the story died after a while and stayed dead for a decade,” RFK says.
The presidential candidate told Barr that the New Yorker had “somehow found out” about the incident and planned to publish a story.
“It’s going to be a bad story,” RFK says in the video, prompting laughter from Barr and others in the room.
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“Can’t wait to see how you guys spin this one,” RFK captioned the video posted to X.
Fox News Digital has reached out to RFK’s campaign and The New Yorker for comment.
