{"id":149321,"date":"2025-09-01T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149249"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:30:08","slug":"biden-official-known-for-posting-satanist-imagery-hits-the-exits-over-cdc-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/biden-official-known-for-posting-satanist-imagery-hits-the-exits-over-cdc-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden official known for posting Satanist imagery, hits the exits over CDC reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, September 1, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC\u2019s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, a Biden holdover who was in charge of overseeing the nation\u2019s vaccine policy resigned from his post Wednesday, shortly after CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149260\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-149260\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DDask-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demetre Daskalakis. \/ Social Media Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his resignation letter, Daskalakis cited his philosophical differences with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that \u201cchallenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people,\u201d adding, \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim O&#8217;Neill, who currently serves as the deputy to Kennedy, will replace Monarez after she headed up the CDC for just a month.<\/p>\n<p>Who exactly is Demetre Daskalakis?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may recall that Biden appointed him as advisor for the monkeypox epidemic that was spreading among gay men (and their dogs),\u201d Not the Bee noted.<\/p>\n<p>He is well known for posting Satanist imagery online. The Biden White House did not respond to a Newsweek report citing conservative critics calling him a Satanist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not cherry picking here. The Pentagram is proudly displayed in his *promotional* photos for a CDC appointment. It\u2019s ubiquitous on his social media. Demetre has Pentagram tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a fair question: Did Joe Biden appoint a Satanist? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/471Fp3uKss\">pic.twitter.com\/471Fp3uKss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1567870596100276224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The National Pulse noted: \u201cDaskalakis\u2019s body is decorated with Satanic pentagram tattoos, and he has posted Satanic images on social media, including one showing a Christian crucifix inside a Pentagram, surrounded by candles, in an occult or mock occult ritual. A \u2018goth\u2019 gym he opened with his \u2018husband,\u2019 Michael MacNeal, also leans heavily into Satanic imagery on social media, posting messages such as \u2018We\u2019ll Steal Your Soul.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good doctor has many loves, including leather pentagrams, hats with pentagrams, and room-sized pentagrams,\u201d Not the Bee added.<\/p>\n<p>Daskalakis wrote in his letter of resignation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public&#8217;s health. The recent change in the adult and children&#8217;s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, \u201cpregnant people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many online observers wondered how \u201cGay Satan\u201d with he\/his\/him pronouns was in a senior CDC position for 8 months of the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yeah I think this was long overdue <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6UgZQDbdvC\">pic.twitter.com\/6UgZQDbdvC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willchamberlain\/status\/1960893789641564660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, September 1, 2025 Real World News Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC\u2019s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, a Biden holdover who was in charge of overseeing the nation\u2019s vaccine policy resigned from his post Wednesday, shortly after CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired. In his resignation letter, Daskalakis cited his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,27,33,16],"tags":[594,595],"class_list":["post-149321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-culture","category-u-s-health","category-u-s-politics","tag-biden-official-known-for-posting-satanist-imagery","tag-hits-the-exits-over-cdc-reforms","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}