He has a point. Lately, our federal agencies have really ruined the trust people had in them for so long. Just look at the FAA for instance, not doing their job with Boeing's 737MAX and proving themselves to just be in Boeing's pocket. No one can really trust the FAA any more, and we have to look for European and even Chinese (!) regulators for proper regulation and approving new aircraft before we can trust that they're safe for the flying public to use.

Why is the FDA different? What makes it immune to the sheer corruption that has infected the FAA and other US federal agencies?

And where are foreign drug-regulation agencies anyway? The US isn't the world's gatekeeper to medicine.