Guided by angels, pursued by chemtrails: the weird world of Florida health chief’s influential wife

The wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, a leading vaccine skeptic, believes that angels have spoken to her and that "dark forces" are targeting her family with chemtrails, and has claimed her husband won't work with anyone she hasn't vetted. 

In published works and interviews reviewed by the Guardian, Brianna Ladapo – who edited her husband's USA Today op-ed from March 2020 against Covid-19 shutdowns and appears alongside him at conferences – claims to have regularly received visions that come true and believes her life has been saved "multiple times" by angels.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/joseph-ladapo-wife-brianna

How weather conspiracy theories moved from online fringes to state laws - The Washington Post

The Florida law — and Uthmeier's letter underscoring it — is the latest example in a surge of right-wing support for conspiracy theories that have spread across social media in recent years. Far-right conspiracy theorists say airplanes are leaving "chemtrails" in the atmosphere that can change the weather, harm human health and even control the minds of the population. They assert that the U.S. government is conducting cloud-seeding experiments that were responsible not only for the recent floods in Texas, but also for Hurricane Helene last year. 

None of these conspiracy theories is true. But they are nevertheless taking root in the highest offices of government...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/16/weather-modification-geoengineering-cloud-seeding-right/

Trump officials address ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theories while spreading misinformation, experts say | US Environmental Protection Agency | The Guardian

"Rather than addressing climate change – which makes floods like those in Texas, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Illinois more intense, more deadly and more frequent – Trump's EPA is wasting taxpayer money chasing baseless conspiracy theories that scientists debunked years ago," said the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a climate hawk. "It's a distraction from the Trump administration's free pass to Big Oil on its pollution."…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/trump-chemtrails-epa-conspiracy-theory 

 

Trump Surrogate RFK Jr.’s Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory | HuffPost Latest News

"We are going to stop this crime," Kennedy posted on social media Monday in response to an X (formerly Twitter) account sharing a conspiracy theory video, which claimed that pilots use their planes to secretly spray chemicals on unsuspecting populations. These pilots, according to the video, are "hardened to humanity" and "could care less about killing off unwanted or leeching aspects of America and the world."…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-kennedy-trump-campaign-chemtrails_n_66cded35e4b0fa7cef5ac422