Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going viral yet again — and this time it involves snakes, screaming, and a stunned internet asking the same question:

“Why is he like this?”

Kennedy sparked a fresh social media firestorm after posting a bizarre video from the home of Mehmet Oz showing himself casually handling two large black racer snakes while they repeatedly bit him.

The clip, uploaded Monday morning to Kennedy’s X account, quickly exploded online.

In the video, Kennedy picks up the snakes — which appeared to be mating on Dr. Oz’s patio — and casually walks around holding them despite the reptiles visibly clamping onto his hands.

Meanwhile, his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, could be heard panicking in the background and desperately pleading with him to stop.

“Bobby! Bobby! Please!” Hines shouted during the chaotic moment.

At one point, Hines mistakenly believed the snakes were venomous water moccasins.

“Moccasins! Those are dangerous!” she yelled.

Kennedy calmly corrected her while still being bitten.

“No, they’re not moccasins,” he replied.

Technically, Kennedy was right. Black racers are non-venomous snakes and generally not considered dangerous to humans.

But that did little to calm viewers watching the future health chief casually allow himself to get repeatedly chomped on camera.

“Are they biting?” Oz asked during the video.

“Yeah,” Kennedy answered matter-of-factly.

The internet instantly lost its mind.

Journalists, political staffers, commentators, and ordinary users flooded social media with disbelief, jokes, and horror.

Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey simply posted: “My word.”

CNN White House reporter Betsy Klein wrote: “I have to know what happened next.”

Meanwhile, Bulwark reporter Joe Perticone joked:

“Babe wake up. A new RFK animal encounter just dropped.”

But perhaps the reaction that spread fastest online came from congressional aide Aaron Fritschner:

“Why is he like this?”

The viral moment also reignited years of bizarre stories surrounding Kennedy’s encounters with animals.

Over time, RFK Jr. has become infamous for a series of strange wildlife-related incidents that critics say sound almost unbelievable.

Among the stories repeatedly resurfacing online:

— dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park
— allegations involving a whale carcass strapped to a vehicle
— reports of handling dead animals in highly unusual ways during family trips

Supporters of Kennedy, however, saw the latest incident differently.

Some praised him for correctly identifying the snakes as harmless and remaining calm around wildlife.

Conservative commentator Ezra Levant called the video “amazing” and described Kennedy as someone living “every day an adventure.”

Still, for much of the internet, the footage became less about snakes and more about the increasingly surreal public image surrounding one of the most controversial figures in American politics.

And once again, RFK Jr. managed to turn a completely ordinary situation into one of the strangest viral political moments of the week.