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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: Simon Green

Maybe Trump should call out all the “journalists” who eat at Micky D’s. Apply the same standard to them. They aren’t trustworthy to report the news because of their eating habits.


161 posted on 12/04/2017 12:36:59 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: nopardons

Yes, of course.

A russian car is a vehicle that no one out of Russia makes and is basically unexportable.


162 posted on 12/04/2017 12:37:14 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert
You did NOT know about U-BET and nether do you know anything at all about egg creams and that they are attempted to be made in many other places ( and they can't compare to the the ones on NYC! ) in this nation. Hence, they ARE "exported"; in a way.

Like pizza...it's the water! And also the syrup.

Without looking it up, tell me what a "BLACK COW" is.

163 posted on 12/04/2017 1:12:23 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

We get our U Bet every September during the Jewish holidays, lol!


164 posted on 12/04/2017 3:09:24 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: nopardons

Don’t engage with that idiot, lol. He thinks U-Bet is a road sign in Croatia.


165 posted on 12/04/2017 3:11:39 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein
Do you?

We can get it at our local independent grocery store all year long. And we do keep a large-ish supply in our own walk-in pantry.

166 posted on 12/04/2017 5:21:00 PM PST by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein

ROTFLMSO; you’re no doubt correct about that! ;^)


167 posted on 12/04/2017 5:21:50 PM PST by nopardons
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