Trump’s diet is ‘poison’ and he never drinks water, says RFK Jr

President-elect’s meal choice is ‘really bad’ and he never drinks water, says Mr Kennedy, who has been tipped for key health role

Donald Trump never drinks water and his fast-food diet is like “poison”, according to Robert F Kennedy Jr who is vying for the role of food safety tsar in the president-elect’s Cabinet.
In a new interview, Mr Kennedy said the food Mr Trump consumed on the election campaign trail was “really, like, bad”.
And he compared the president-elect’s fast food favourites, KFC and McDonald’s, to “poison”.
Mr Kennedy, who is also known as RFK Jr, had been expected to become the White House’s food safety czar as part of the next administration, after dropping his own presidential ambitions to endorse Mr Trump.
“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Mr Kennedy told the Joe Polish Show.
“Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison. You have a choice between — you don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s, like, when you’re lucky, and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible.”
Mr Trump’s McDonald’s order consists of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate milkshake.
In 2016, he was pictured eating from a bucket of KFC fried chicken with a knife and fork on a private jet.
His drink of choice is Diet Coke. RFK Jr recalled Dana White, the chief executive of UFC, telling him that he had “never seen Trump drink a glass of water”.
“I was with Dana White the other day… he’s very close to Trump, they’ve had a relationship for 20 years through UFC. He said that sometimes he’ll sit through a fight with Trump — and he’s [there for] five hours [during] the fight — and said he has never seen Trump drink a glass of water. Never,” he said.
Mr Kennedy is unlikely to be able to convince the president-elect to change his eating habits, but his main focus if he enters government will be to encourage Americans to cut down on their intake of processed foods.
He had attributed the increases of diseases like diabetes and obesity to poor diets.
To reduce the country’s calorie intake, Mr Kennedy has proposed pulling processed foods from supermarket shelves.
Mr Trump said his former presidential opponent would be allowed to “go wild on healthcare”.
The president-elect made McDonald’s a key part of his campaign, disputing Kamala Harris’s claim that she worked at a branch of the fast food restaurant while studying at Howard University in the 1980s.
He travelled to a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania to serve fries in a campaign stunt.