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2024, Donald Trump, Opinion

RFK Jr. Blasts Trump’s Fast Food Diet, Calls It ‘Practically Poison’

RFK Jr. hit Trump where it hurts: His fast food diet.

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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?

Now, Kennedy may have jeopardized that, by hitting Trump where it hurts: By criticizing the president-elect’s fast food diet.

“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.

Kennedy was also critical of Trump for not sleeping enough.

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“He has this extraordinary energy and the last day we were with him he was up 48 hours, so when he gave his acceptance speech he had been up 48 hours, literally 48 hours with no sleep,” Kennedy said on the podcast. “I’m 70, I feel like I have a lot of endurance, but overnight at this point… I could do that a lot when I was a kid, but he does it all the time.”
Trump has not yet reacted to Kennedy’s criticism of his eating and sleeping habits.
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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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