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struggle4progress

(118,301 posts)
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 07:45 AM Dec 2017

Disconcerting Food Choices

JAMES HAMBLIN
DEC 2, 2017

... The book’s authors, who traveled with Trump early in his presidency, write: "On Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke" ...

The Post describes the plane's cupboards as being “stacked with Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels, and many packages of Oreos" because the president is a "renowned germaphobe" who declines to eat from a previously opened package ...

His dietary pattern adds to the picture of a 70-year-old man who has long been living against all health advice — who does not exercise, who barely sleeps, who has tumultuous relationships, who is frequently enraged ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/trump-eats/547355/

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hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
8. According to McDonald's calorie counter, that's 2,420 calories in one meal...
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 11:40 AM
Dec 2017
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/nutrition-calculator.html


And I'm sure he also has at least one large order of fries with those sandwiches.

Croney

(4,661 posts)
2. May he continue this wonderful, healthy diet.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 07:54 AM
Dec 2017

If reality catches up with him, so be it. Pass him the salt please.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
4. I think eventually this is bound to catch up with him. I feel ill just reading that list.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:08 AM
Dec 2017

I have never had a taste for fast food though and apparently I was born without a sweet tooth. Surely this way of eating will have repercussions. Probably sooner than later.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,183 posts)
7. "...two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted."
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:45 AM
Dec 2017

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame-seed bun...

I'm sure whoever picks up the order doesn't tell them who it's for, lest someone apply a real special sauce.

No, Mr. President, I don't think your beautiful chocolate malted smells like almonds. Why do you ask?

Don't worry about it. They make Oreos in all sorts of colors these days...

Yes, the tartar sauce seems to have a different consistency than on the fillets I get for myself...

I think it's an anchovy on the pizza, but it does appear to be moving and I've never seen one with legs before...

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