There has to be somebody who thinks this is cute, but it’s definitely not me. The newest celebrity product line “weird promo” to come out is from Cheryl Hines. You might remember her as one of the stars of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but if you’re like most of the rest of America, you just found out she’s married to Robert F. Kennedy, Junior.

Now, you’d think that someone who’s a celebrity on their own — like, say, a TV star — might just use their own popularity to sell their products. But Cheryl somehow thought she’d sell more, uh, candles and bed linen sprays by leaning on her husband.

But is he famous? Or is he just infamous? Because back when he was just a celebrity, you knew him as the son of assassinated presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy (and nephew of JFK). Maybe you knew him as a radio host on Ring of Fire Radio. Maybe you just remembered the sound of his voice, raspy and halting due to the spasmodic dysphonia he’s suffered from for three decades.

Now you know him as the weird guy in the Trump administration that’s coming up. The antivaxxer health nut who keeps stuffing his face full of nicotine pouches and fast food while railing against the “unhealthy things” that kids are putting in their bodies.

The commercial is clever, mind you. Just not in this case specifically because it’s him. Like, if she were dating Jason Momoa or something, I can see it. She’d probably sell out the first time the commercial ever aired. But THIS guy?

Cheryl Hines, the co-star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, promotes products from her health and beauty line for Black Friday, while her husband, the Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate, Robert Kennedy Jr., showers behind her. pic.twitter.com/UNeZg38jWr

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You’ll note that the lids of the candles in the commercial all say “H&Y,” for Hines and Young, her product line with daughter Catherine Young. There’s one special lid at the very end of the spot that says MAHA, or Make America Healthy Again. That tracks pretty well with what the formerly very liberal actress said at a party in October about Kennedy’s embrace of Trumpian politics:

“There’s nothing I can do about it, so I have to let it wash over me.” In the shower, I guess.

The list of reasons this commercial shouldn’t exist are endless. But top of the list has to be that nobody wants to see the nominee for Health and Human Services naked. That’s just the obvious part. The fact that it’s him and that he’s not even good looking (subjectively, of course; your mileage may vary) just add to the ew factor.

I’m not sure why Cheryl’s hitching her wagon to that guy, but I guess spouses are loyal to a fault. Well, unless you’re RFK, Jr., that is. Although it’s never been confirmed by Kennedy himself (and likely never will be), journalist Olivia Nuzzi says she had an affair with him over the last year. Three more women have come forward since to allege that they, too, had affairs with Kennedy during the same time.

But that all aligns perfectly with the rest of Kennedy’s philandering history: He married Emily Black in 1982 and cheated on her with Mary Kathleen Richardson, who he married in 1994. Then he was caught with more than 40 names in his cell phone of alleged mistresses while he was married to Richardson, among them Hines, who he married in 2014.

At least he waited until 2 years after Richardson’s death to marry the woman he was cheating on her with while she was alive.

But this begs the question: Does Trump know any men who aren’t cheaters? I mean, he used to hang out with Mike Pence during meetings and stuff, but it hardly counts when you publicly say that maybe he should’ve been hanged for not breaking the law and installing you as president.

The bottom line is, as much as I hate to say it (since I have enjoyed Hines so much as an actress), she fits right in with the rest of the administration. She’s a grifter. Just the same way that Trump was a pro-choice, anti-gun, nonreligious Democrat who donated to Kamala Harris’s 2015 campaign in California before he took on a role as a right-wing nutcase, Hines appears to have abandoned any sense of propriety or patriotism in favor of the almighty dollar.

I feel like maybe the demographic for her particular line of products isn’t maybe the best target audience for Trump-friendly messaging, but it seems to work for Melania and Donnie, so grifting it is.