Everyone in Trump’s Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut

MSN ^ | June 18, 2026 | Natalie Andrews

[nickcarraway]

JD Vance, RFK Jr. and other officials swear by a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods, even when the sulfurous odors cause friction at home

A new diet is sweeping through President Trump’s cabinet—and it involves heaping portions of sauerkraut. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance have all embraced the diet, drawn by the promise of slimmer waistlines and glowing skin. They all apparently have determined the health benefits outweigh the slightly sulfurous odors that have been the cause of some domestic friction.

“Within 30 days I lost 20 pounds,” Kennedy said at an event in Michigan this week. “JD Vance is also on the diet and you can see how different he looks.” The diet is the brainchild of Dr. Sean O’Mara, who advises his high-profile patients to eat fermented foods such as sauerkraut and kimchi, alongside grass-fed steak—and to abstain from alcohol and sugary food.

O’Mara says the diet leads to a reduction in visceral fat, which wraps around organs, as well as a more robust microbiome, which can help with digestion. Kennedy, 72, was the first to convert. Lutnick, 64, and Duffy, 54, followed suit. Vance, 41, committed to the diet for Lent earlier this year, and has stuck with it. “I tend to like to work with older people because the ROI is so much greater…. it’s like taking over a sinking ship, a company that is headed to bankruptcy,” O’Mara said. He declined to discuss his patients, citing privacy concerns. But people familiar with the matter said Kennedy, Lutnick and Duffy have all seen O’Mara.

[Bobbyvotes]

I inherited terrible genes. No males in my family made it past 72. Father, brother, all uncles, died before reaching 72. Main reason I am healthy at 86 is relentless exercise for 30 minutes every day, and I mean 365 days of the year. I began that at age 60. I do Zumba dance class at YMCA every week with much younger people. There is no one close to 86 there.

[GenXPolymath]

“Isn’t all beef grass-fed? Cows are raised in a pasture. He must be talking about grass-finished.

I prefer mine grass-fed/grain-finished. Tender and flavor packed. Give me
that fat marbling.”

Yes all cattle are grass fed for most of their life. Grain finishing drastically alters the omega 3/6 balance in the fats of the animal. It completely shifts the very healthy omega 3 to unhealthy omega 6.

You are eating the soy beans and corn fats feed to the animal at the feed lot their liver directly pushes the omega 6 into the lipid profile of the body mass. You are no better off eating grain finished beef than chicken or pork both of which also have near zero omega 3 and are all omega 6 from seed oils in their feeds.

ONLY ruminant animals on land that is can make omega 3 they actually don’t it their symbiotic relationship with their massive gut bacteria and protozoa colony that makes it for them. Sheep are the salmon of the land they meet and sometimes exceed salmon especially farm raised salmon also raised with seed oils in their feeds omega 3 profile.

So yeah eat grain finished beef you might as well be drinking liquid corn oil it is biologically identical to that the fats in the beef are 80% omega 6 directly from soy and corn oil down to the molecular level you absolutely can and people have done isotopic abundance analysis to prove without doubt the fat in meat and in you if they took a biopsies is corn oil based. The average person in America is also 80% by carbon isotope corn fed it literally is in nearly everything you eat in the North America food web. All three major meat vectors are primarily corn fed in North America all chickens and all hogs for sure, and most of the cattle too.

Only grass fed AND finished beef is corn free. This is exactly why JD V ,and RFK eat exclusively grass furnished beef they are 100% againt seed oils in any form any for your health you should be too.

We cut seed oil and any corn products out of our diet years ago both myself and my wife have LDV HDL ratios of endurance athletes and resting bpms in the 50s we both work out but our doctors are shocked how good our lipid profiles are.

No sugar, no seed oils, I will slap someone if they try to serve me HFCS, only grass fed beef, tons of fish, shellfish, dairy,eggs and so much cheese you would think we are French. Chicken is peasant food, and pork is a rare BBQ event or a Cajun hog boucherie with family. We just spent a week on the Gulf of America it was fish or shrimp or crab or bivalves every night and grass fed steak & eggs and whole milk in the mornings or grass fed burgers on the boat while offshore, or sashimi with what I scuba dive speared, bowfished, or line caught. I make a mean Poke too, and ceviche tastes best when you are rolling in Gulf waves out of sight of land.

Carnivore modified with fermented veggies is the go to fitness diet for people who train for endurance rather than show. Wife and I have both done Iron man’s, we did the Marine Corps Marathon in full boots and Bay’s twice when we were dating she was a LT in the Army at the time.

Do yourself a favor trash the grain fed crap it is no better than chicken goyslop. Grass fed is how cows are intended to taste by God himself the grain fed is corporate greed and goyism.