We’d thought CNN and other mainstream media outlets had already done President Trump’s diet to death, what with stories about two scoops of ice cream and 12 Diet Cokes a day, not that anyone cared.
Apparently seeing a gap in coverage, Business Insider’s Dennis Green spent a week eating “foods that Trump has been photographed eating, has said in interviews that he eats, or has been reported to eat regularly.” Wasn’t this bit played out in 2004’s “Super Size Me”?
We ate like @realDonaldTrump — It was an entire week of washing down Oreos and Egg McMuffins with Diet Cokes https://t.co/8HQBKn7DJs pic.twitter.com/f4MTfZvOHy
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) January 10, 2018
The Washington Examiner picked up on the story as well.
"What it's like to eat like Donald Trump for a week" https://t.co/zGLIb3wQze pic.twitter.com/FBbEtem63Q
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 10, 2018
Green photographed every meal, or what was left of it after he gave it his best, and kept a diary.
I’m feeling super sluggish — much more so than on a usual Monday. I wonder whether it’s my horrible diet. Trump doesn’t drink tea or coffee, so I crack open a Diet Coke at 11 a.m. I hate what I’ve become, but I finish the can anyway. I find it hard to drink one, let alone 12.
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Day 7. Honestly, I don’t know how much more I can take of the punishment. The thought of bacon, eggs, or any kind of breakfast sandwich in the morning makes me gag, so I grab an oatmeal bar from the office kitchen instead. It tastes like release.
“I can’t say I learned a lot about Trump,” Green concludes, “but I definitely learned something about myself.” Pretty compelling stuff.
https://twitter.com/walrus40/status/951215198412660736
https://twitter.com/ronnyshreve/status/951215396991848448
A lot of people eat like President Trump does — a point driven home by a New York Times piece on the president’s upcoming physical.
Headed into TRUMP’S first physical as @potus, friends have noticed an increase in his girth amid a lifestyle of Diet Cokes, vanilla ice cream, slabs of red meat & as little as 5 hours of sleep a night. https://t.co/sZ9AYL9gij
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) January 10, 2018
absolutely same https://t.co/8JeahqtgS7
— Fabinho Tavares Fan Account (@ALTscoe) January 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/libbyanelson/status/951234852778643456
https://twitter.com/Nate_J_Smith/status/951237144550498307
Sub out Diet Coke for bourbon and I now understand my friend’s thinking about my girth. https://t.co/GKD03JMVCR
— ‾zǝǝɯɥɔs@ (@schmeez_) January 10, 2018
this is literally my exact lifestyle, minus the ice cream. S.O.S. cc @Giambusso https://t.co/QLk3QMCezg
— Laura Nahmias (@nahmias) January 10, 2018
The amount of Oreos @Ben_Maki and I consumed during football season have to at least qualify us for state Senate. https://t.co/u7EQxGbhgU
— Will Rubin (@WillCRubin) January 10, 2018
Honestly, every story that describes Trump's day-to-day schedule and eating habits has been extremely relatable. https://t.co/WUHHJOc8pC
— Sam Raskin (@samraskinz) January 10, 2018
Moreso than the reporter trying his first-ever Egg McMuffin?
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