Meatloaf, McDonald's burger, cereals ... Here are Donald Trump's favorite dishes
The eating habits of US President Donald Trump have hit the headlines over the years as some of the president's preferences have emerged as specific and even surprising. The president avoids alcohol, coffee and pizza dough, but he revealed what he loves to eat and drink, including Coca-Cola, fast food and cherry-vanilla ice cream. Here are some of Donald Trump's favorite meals, snacks and treats.
Bacon and eggs
Donald Trump has said he often skips breakfast. But if he happens to eat early, he will opt for bacon and eggs. In 2015, he told People magazine that he prefers the "medium bacon and fried eggs."
McDonald's McMuffin
During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump sometimes needed fuel early in the day, which apparently came from one of his favorite restaurants. Politico reported that a former bodyguard often had to run into a McDonald's near the sea terminal in Queens in order to get him Egg McMuffins.
The cereals
In an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters during the 2016 Iowa election campaign, Donald Trump spoke about his taste for patriotic grain, saying he preferred grain from the state where corn is. abundant. "Made in the USA, must really mean made in the USA," he said. "You know, the corn flake thing, Raisin Bran. It must have been straight out of the fields of Iowa."
Coca-Cola Light
As the president does not drink coffee, tea or alcohol, he devotes his palate to sparkling drinks. The New York Times reported that Donald Trump consumes about a dozen Coca-Cola Light each day.
This habit is well known to the public and has been so throughout his presidency, since he notably preferred a glass of Coca-Cola Light to wine or champagne to toast, as reported by Mashable. The American president loves soda so much that it appears he has a "little red button" in the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office which, when he presses on it, asks a butler to bring him a cool Coke.
A well-cooked entrecote
Anthony Senecal, Donald Trump's longtime butler, told the New York Times that the president likes his steak so well done, "it would cling to the plate."
KFC
When Donald Trump tweeted a photo of himself next to a KFC bucket during the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign, no one was surprised, given his love of fast food. Where people were surprised was when they saw the size of the bucket, which indicates the president ordered a 16-piece fried chicken menu with extras, a menu that could feed four to eight people.
Meatloaf
In 2010, Donald Trump told US Weekly that his older sister Maryanne usually makes him meatloaf on his birthday. We also talked about this dish when Donald and Melania Donald Trump appeared on Martha Stewart's cooking show in 2005 to show how to make "Meatloaf with The Donald". The First Lady said during the show that Donald Trump's favorite dishes consisted mostly of meat and fish, but "not a lot of vegetables."
Seafood
Although he mainly claims his taste for red meat, Donald Trump also likes to taste crab and shrimp.
McDonald's
According to two former campaign collaborators, what the US president typically orders is a 2,430-calorie serving consisting of two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and a large chocolate shake. A former aide told Politico that Donald Trump often ordered "two Royal Cheese from McDonald's and a large fries" during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Donald Trump's love for McDonald's and fast food restaurants as a whole could be explained by what a former assistant explains to be an almost constant fear of being poisoned. Donald Trump has also previously said he prefers fast food chains because of their standards of cleanliness. “With a bad burger you can destroy McDonald's. A bad burger and you take Wendy's and all the other fast food and they're bankrupt,” Donald Trump said in a 2016 speech. “I love it. cleanliness and I think you better go there rather than somewhere where you don't know where the food is coming from. "
Pizza
"On the Trump Force One, Donald Trump's private jet, we could distinguish four major food groups: McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Coca-Cola Light," wrote Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, two former Donald Trump collaborators , in their 2016 campaign book. Although Donald Trump starred in a Pizza Hut stuffed crust commercial in 1995, he previously said he doesn't eat the crust.
The Trump Grill Taco Bowl
Donald Trump chose the "bowl" from the Trump Grill menu for his famous tweet marking Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican national holiday, which allowed him to express how much he "loves Hispanics!" Kate Taylor and Hollis Johnson of Business Insider US previously reported that they felt "ripped off" by this new $ 19 dish. They paid "twice as much for a dish that Qdoba (chain of Mexican restaurants) cooks better".
Lay's crisps
The White House kitchen is said to be stocked with Lay's crisps, The New York Times reported in January 2017.
Vienna Fingers and Oreos
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In the book "Let Trump Be Trump," two former Donald Trump aides wrote that the president keeps Keebler's vanilla Oreos and Vienna Fingers on hand as a snack when he takes the plane.
See's Candies
Donald Trump has previously expressed his taste for the sugary treats at See's Candies, and the company was one of several companies boycotted by those who wished to oppose his presidency.
Vanilla-cherry ice cream
Donald Trump told US Weekly in 2010 that his favorite ice cream flavor was vanilla-cherry ice cream. This was on the menu during the dinner of its inauguration years later. Time magazine published an article on life in the White House shortly after Donald Trump took office and reported that he was having "two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate and whipped cream cake," instead only one ball like all the others.
The chocolate cake
Donald Trump said he spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the United States' strike in Syria in April 2017 over a slice of chocolate cake at his hotel in Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
"We were having dessert. And we had the nicest slice of chocolate cake you have ever seen and President Xi Jinping loved it very much," Donald Trump told the Fox presenter. Business Maria Bartiromo. "Then the generals informed me that the boats were ready, what would you have done? We decided to do it, and so the missiles were launched."
