President-elect Donald Trump is not shy about his enjoyment of McDonald’s — and his choice to run America’s health apparatus is not shy about critiquing his future boss’ diet.“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.told podcaster Joe Polish Monday.
“Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison,” the 70-year-old added of the fare on Trump Force One.“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.”The “rest of the stuff” can be surmised by considering what Trump requested to be served in his box when he attended the Georgia-Alabama college football game Sept.28: “two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches with cheese from McDonald’s, stadium hotdogs [sic], Domino’s pizza and Diet Coke,” according to AL.com.RFK Jr.
has insisted he has no desire to ban fast food, calling it “part of American culture” in social media posts last month, but he has called for the elimination of some of the key ingredients that make McDonald’s, well, McDonald’s.Here are the changes the Kennedy scion would push:Can you imagine a McDonald’s order without those signature golden, salty fries?RFK Jr.can, and he wants it to happen.The 70-year-old, who possesses an incongruous-looking six-pack and is not shy about shirtless workouts, has said he is “against food that has seed oils.” Seed oils include canola, soybean, and hydrogenated soybean oil — a blend of which is what McDonald’s cooks its fries in.After Trump made a viral stop at Mickey D’s last month, RFK Jr.
stated that the fast food titan should return to its initial practice of cooking the fries in beef fat tallow rather than seed oils.That method, common at more gourmet burger joints, would give fries a darker color and a meatier taste“Tha...