Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., began the 2024 presidential cycle as a Democratic challenger to Joe Biden before becoming an independent candidate and ultimately dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump. A scion of one of the nation’s most prominent Democratic families, Kennedy ran on a platform of opposition to vaccines, major changes to the food supply, and other platforms informed by pseudoscience.
Since Trump’s win, there has been much speculation about whether Kennedy will get a prominent job in the administration. Could he serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services? If there is a worry that he couldn’t gain confirmation, could he get a “czar”-type job in the White House? Or merely serve on a powerless commission, in the tradition of Elon Musk and the “DOGE” commission?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the food that America’s next leader eats is so unhealthy it’s practically “poison.” https://t.co/DaHYAMrxz3
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 13, 2024
Now, Kennedy may have jeopardized that, by hitting Trump where it hurts: By criticizing the president-elect’s fast food diet.
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“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Kennedy said this week on the podcast of marketing industry podcaster Joe Polish, as reported by The Daily Beast. “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 when you’re lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible.”
Trump is a lifelong fan of fast food, and memorably spent a day “working” at McDonalds during the campaign. During his first term, Trump served a fast food meal to the Clemson football team after they won the national championship.
President Trump said he was personally paying for the meals provided to Clemson for their White House visit, due to the government shutdown. Trump told reporters that he was serving “McDonalds, Wendy’s and Burger King with some pizza.” https://t.co/q8kxNRy1pa pic.twitter.com/iGXzrD32F0
— CNN (@CNN) January 15, 2019
Kennedy was also critical of Trump for not sleeping enough.
