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Trump is partial to fast food and Diet Coke, as these quoted excepts show:
- From 1:
A recent book by former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former aide
David Bossie, Let Trump Be Trump 2,
said the presidential candidate would often
eat one McDonald's meal a day consisting of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish
sandwiches and a chocolate shake -- a menu that would total at least 2,400 calories
and more than 3,400 milligrams of sodium.
- From 3, referencing the same book:
Trump's fast-food diet is a theme. "On Trump Force One there were four major food groups:
McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Diet Coke," the authors write.
The plane's cupboards were stacked with Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels and many packages of
Oreos because Trump, a renowned germaphobe,
would not eat from a previously opened package.
The book notes that "the orchestrating and timing of Mr. Trump's meals was as important as any
other aspect of his march to the presidency," and it describes the elaborate efforts that Lewandowski
and other top aides went through to carefully time their delivery of hot fast food to Trump's plane as
he was departing his rallies.
- Despite having tweeted in 2012
"I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke"
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and calling the beverage "garbage" 5,
Trump drinks a dozen of them each day 6.
By pressing a button on his Oval Office desk, he summons a White House butler
to bring him one 7.
In 2011 said that he
likes a "little caffeine" and that, while he likes tomato juice and orange juice,
"Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little"
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Beyond fast food, "Mr. Trump has always relished gossiping over plates of well-done steak, salad
slathered with Roquefort dressing and bacon crumbles, tureens of gravy and
massive slices of dessert with extra ice cream" 6.
At Trump's first presidential physical (2018), his physician prescribed a change in diet
SEE BELOW.
Trump was non-compliant 9.
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 circus-like physicals
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For physical exams while he was a private citizen,
Trump said, "Well, I try and do it every year"
11. His long-time personal physician has written:
"He has had an annual physical exam in the spring of every year"
12.
As a candidate, Trump issued three statements about his medical health:
- 2015: (December) MORE 13 (Physician statement #1)
- 2016: (September) MORE 12 (Physician statement #2)
- 2016: (September) MORE 11 (Interviews: Dr. Oz, Fox)
Since taking office, Trump has had more-or-less yearly physical examinations at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center:
- 2017: (January) Takes office.
- 2018: (January) SEE BELOW 14 Press briefing: MORE 15
- 2019: (February) MORE 9
- 2019: (November) MORE 16
The main medical results from these evaluations are tabulated elsewhere
MORE, and are discussed in various
pages.
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