- President Donald Trump announced Dr. Nicole Saphier as his new nominee for surgeon general last month, concluding months of uncertainty regarding the Senate's confirmation of his previous choice, Dr. Casey Means.
- Saphier is a board-certified radiologist and Associate Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, where she directs breast imaging at MSK's Monmouth, New Jersey facility. She is a prominent media personality, serving as a medical expert on Fox News since 2018 and hosting the iHeart Radio podcast "Wellness Unmasked with Dr. Nicole Saphier."
- Saphier has been deleting social media posts that were critical of the Trump administration's handling of issues like autism and vaccines. The deleted posts, some from 2025 and earlier this year, are still viewable via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Her past criticisms included questioning Trump's reassurances about his health and his warnings to pregnant women against taking Tylenol.
- “As a mom of 3 kids, I don’t love a man telling me to ‘tough it out’ when it comes to pregnancy,” she wrote in September. “Words matter. Facts matter too.” Saphier is a New York Times bestselling author, having penned several books including "Love, Mom," "Make America Healthy Again," and "Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19."
- In another example from last June, she derided Trump and Elon Musk over their very public falling out as the world’s richest man’s tenure in the White House came to an end. She called their competing insults on rival social media platforms “petty, loud and obnoxious” and compared the feud to “watching two billionaires throw sand in a sandbox.”
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