Quick, hide the cauliflower
Some children have to be tricked into eating vegetables.
Donald Trump, a 73-year-old man who has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal at his fingertips, must be tricked into eating vegetables. The White House staff has also sought to cut down the president’s ice cream consumption by making it “less accessible.”
They put it in the library.
The newsflash is from an interview with the former White House doctor in the NY Times.
In public, [Ronny] Jackson lauded Trump’s health as “incredible.” At one point, he even told reporters that Trump could live to 200 years old.
Behind the scenes, however, Jackson said he wanted Trump to lose 10-15 pounds. He mapped out a workout routine involving an exercise bike and elliptical machine, while also seeking to alter Trump’s nutrition. Ultimately, “the exercise stuff never took off as much as I wanted it to,” Jackson told The Times. “But we were working on his diet. We were making the ice cream less accessible, we were putting cauliflower into the mashed potatoes.”
And that little boy is only 73 years old.
Not sure how I feel about this.
On the one hand, Trump acts like a toddler (as documented extensively by Dan Drezner), and so it’s not surprising that his staff treat him like one. And I’m sure it’s frustrating having Donnie Two Scoops as a patient. But on the other, there’s something creepy and patronizing about doctors and chefs and staff deciding what a (technically speaking) grown adult is allowed to eat. Doctors can give advice and recommendations, but a grown-ass man has the right to eat what he wants.