ANAL 4 RFK

Pranksters fill Kennedy campaign calendar with hilarious erotic events

'Anal for RFK' and 'Dramatic reading of RFK Jr’s sex diary' were among the events listed on the presidential candidate's website

By Alec Regimbal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign website lists several “community events” created by supporters of the independent presidential candidate. A meet-and-greet dinner is scheduled for March 28 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as is another event for volunteers in Seattle. 

But for a short time Wednesday evening, the calendar listed several atypical events for a presidential candidate. And that’s putting it politely.

A “dramatic reading” of Kennedy’s “sex diary” was scheduled to be held in Intercourse, Pennsylvania (that’s a real place), on March 30. A “sex orgy” with Kennedy and his new running mate, Bay Area attorney Nicole Shanahan, who joined the ticket Tuesday, was scheduled for March 28 in Los Angeles.

Other events included “ANAL 4 RFK,” “RFK Jr’s family considers him an Embarrassment,” “Annual Skullf—k of my Uncle in memory of Jeff” and “RFK Jr. dies a gruesome death.” That last event was scheduled to be held on Halloween.

It’s a cautionary tale for politicians running for office in the digital age. It’s clear that before Thursday, when all the erotic events had disappeared from the calendar, the website allowed users to create their own events without any vetting, and online pranksters took advantage.

It’s reminiscent of the time Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein tricked several prominent Republicans, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, into retweeting a military portrait of John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on Memorial Day in 2021 after telling them that the man in the picture was his grandfather.

Klippenstein also tricked former Bill Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf into retweeting a fake-anti vaccine quote attributed to a doctor named John Sims. The man pictured with the quote, dressed in medical garb, is a porn star who uses the stage name “Johnny Sins.”

But perhaps the most successful online political trolling came from TikTok users in 2020.

That year, hundreds of users RSVP’d for a Donald Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, leading the former president to brag about how many people had asked for tickets. But many of those who requested tickets didn’t actually show up. The New York Times reported that the city’s fire marshal scanned 6,200 tickets for the rally, held in an arena that was capable of seating 19,000.

With a running mate now in tow, Kennedy has officially entered the dog days of the campaign season. He’s off to a rough start.