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The Atlantic: Trump's Food Choices Grow More Disconcerting
The Atlantic ^ | 12/02/17 | James Hamblin

Posted on 12/03/2017 10:37:42 AM PST by Simon Green

A new memoir implicates the Filet-O-Fish in a 2,400-calorie dinner.

“Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”

This 2,400-calorie meal is among the details in a forthcoming book by Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and aid David Bossie, as described in a preview by The Washington Post.

A dinner of that size would offer caloric energy for a full day. The 3,400 milligrams of sodium more than doubles the American Heart Association’s recommendation of 1,500 milligrams per day. The meal provides almost no fiber—and also offers more white bread than anyone would do well to eat in a week. This is all ominous for the president’s cardiovascular system.

So is the lack of variety. 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.”

Keeping the Coke sugar-free is an interesting line to draw—especially as a man who once said, “I have never seen a thin person drink Diet Coke.”

The food enters the President not only in abundance, but with haste. Ivanka Trump said in a 2015 interview with Barbara Walters, “I wish he would eat healthier and maybe slow down. Sometimes I tell him, like, ‘Oh, you have to, you know, slow down.’ But it’s the only speed he knows ...”

All of this could be taken as simple evidence of Trump’s cultural vacuousness. He should know other speeds; he has dined with other people. He should enjoy a wide array of foods; he has been afforded the opportunity to have anything he wants.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clutchthepearls; fastfood; jameshamblin; mmmburgers; mmmpizza; partisanmediashills; theatlantic; trump45
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To: Rebelbase

I believe you are correct. Than let’s take what Trump eats and send it to his Cabinet!


121 posted on 12/03/2017 12:22:14 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Simon Green

IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE!!!!


122 posted on 12/03/2017 12:22:19 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: miss marmelstein

Perhaps on Google’s menu, but not on McDs.


123 posted on 12/03/2017 12:33:13 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Simon Green

I love jelly fish tentacles with noodles.

Black eyed peas.

And a fish fillet with extra tarter sauce.

Follow that with vanilla pudding.

See, to each his own.

Besides, I despise, loathe, abominate self-righteous food snobbery with a passion.

Send them all to Sudan.


124 posted on 12/03/2017 12:35:04 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Simon Green

Trump is a tad on the stout side... and so what.

If they hate Trump maybe they ought to be hoping he eats himself to death, so should say nothing....


125 posted on 12/03/2017 12:36:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
I had that after my hike last week (almost). 8 miles with 25lb pound pack on my back in warmer weather, sweating like a workhorse.

My post-hike meal was from Chic-fil-A: 8pc chicken nuggets, fries, medium soda, and a ranch cobb salad. Roughly 2K calories. I was at a calorie deficit by the end of the first hour.

Because my exertion amount for those 3 1/2hrs? 1800Kcal.

So if he's working through lunch and doesn't eat, I'm not faulting the man (and will offer seconds, too.)

126 posted on 12/03/2017 12:41:36 PM PST by Maigrey (Life, for a liberal, is one never-ending game of Calvinball. - Giotto)
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To: Simon Green

If Mueller can’t get him and Melania’s shoes won’t do the trick, this — THIS! — should fire the ovens of impeachment!


127 posted on 12/03/2017 12:42:46 PM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
I wonder how much McD's benefits from these articles? It's free publicity that the Atlantic is disparaging because of the President's food choices but it's got to be about 1/2M to 1M in free publicity.

You can't buy that kind of advertising.

129 posted on 12/03/2017 12:43:39 PM PST by Maigrey (Life, for a liberal, is one never-ending game of Calvinball. - Giotto)
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To: Simon Green

Too bad he isn’t SMOKING CRACK like Obama. Cause that is so healthy.


130 posted on 12/03/2017 12:44:00 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Simon Green; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; Freedom56v2; pax_et_bonum; Seattle Conservative; danamco; ..
If I had to eat filets, prime rib, the finest steaks and other high-end entrees all the time at the banquets, balls, state dinners, etc. the president has to attend, I'd pig out on junk food every chance I could.

I love BK grilled Whoppers and grab one when I can....which is about once a month (along with a chocolate whipped cream shake).

Heaven is.....

Leni

131 posted on 12/03/2017 12:50:59 PM PST by MinuteGal (MAGA !!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sheesh!... You’d think with all the culinary/ etiquette instructions from the helpful media Trump would have polished. His manners. /s ;>)

June 2, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-sarah-palin-pizza-fail-knives-forks/story?id=13743490

August 2, 2016

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-eats-kfc-knife-fork/index.html


132 posted on 12/03/2017 12:51:06 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: libh8er

the media/press detest the masses and their choices including food, don’t you remember how they would hound and shame Billy Clinton for his love of fast food as well?

That said, I am grossed out by fast food myself...


133 posted on 12/03/2017 1:00:00 PM PST by Katya
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To: PIF
Don't be stupid, please. I went to google which pulled up Mickey D's menu on Mickey D's website. There was chocolate milkshakes. In NYC, milk shakes and malted milks are used interchangeably although they are different in that one uses malt powder and as my Bronx-born and raised husband says, uses a raw egg. Outlawed now, of course. But, again, used interchangeably.
134 posted on 12/03/2017 1:00:03 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

So you are saying that the interchangeable use of shake and malted prove the general ignorance of New yorkers


135 posted on 12/03/2017 1:02:06 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Pirate Ragnar
buffalo butt

The Original "Buffalo Butt"....


136 posted on 12/03/2017 1:02:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MinuteGal

I have to agree with you. If the Lord said I could eat anything I wanted without any health issues, I’d go for junk food every time. And I’m a culinary student and a student of fine food. But salt and fat beats veggies and fruit every time! Sadly...


137 posted on 12/03/2017 1:02:37 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: bert
What picayune jackasses we have on FR.
138 posted on 12/03/2017 1:05:41 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Not only are New Yorkers ignorant, they insist on spreading the ignorance far across the nation


139 posted on 12/03/2017 1:07:13 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: eyedigress

“Keep mustard packs by the bed. Knock one down, cramps gone. (Tumeric)”

Is a mustard pack not a poultice that you apply to the affected area?


140 posted on 12/03/2017 1:09:28 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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