Your wife is missing out on one of the better things in life.
Perhaps he intended that he may be perceived as further right than Trump it makes sense.
That’s how it came across here.
It's a cultural thing about peanut butter. Outside of North America, almost everybody in the world HATES the taste of peanut butter. And since my wife is from South America she also has that aversion. I think peanut butter is a taste that has to be acquired very young.
BTW, her idea of a better spread is Nutella which I tried and found to be horrible.