By Tim Abel
We’ve all heard the
stories of Donald Trump preferring a well-done steak with ketchup and shunning
any new delicacies, despite living a lifestyle that offers him all the luxuries
one could ever desire.
However, it’s not just
that the President has terrible gastronomical taste, a new memoir suggests that
his diet is one of several poor lifestyle choices that could very well shorten
his life.
According to an excerpt from Let Trump be Trump, an upcoming book by Trump’s former campaign
manager Corey Lewandowski and aide David Bossie, we get to enter the inner
circle where the President of the United States having a 2,400-calory
McDonald’s dinner is par for the course.
“Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when
it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of two Big Macs, two
Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted,” is just one of the claims made in the
book.
Remember, this is just one meal, but it only
gets worse.
“On Trump Force One there were four major food groups:
McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke,” the authors write
about traveling with Trump during the early days of his presidency, but there
may be a valid reason for it.
Trump is also a renowned germaphobe who allegedly won’t eat from
a package that has already been opened, which would also explain the plane’s
cupboards being “stacked with Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels, and
many packages of Oreos.”
Those well-done steaks make a little more sense now, as
well.
But a little bit of bacteria is probably the least of the
President’s worries.
This is a 71-year-old man who gets next to no exercise (it’s
hard to include his golf when he barely even walks while playing), gets very
little sleep, and is constantly throwing tantrums.
So add in that diet and you have the perfect recipe for a heart
attack.
The diet alone, especially the snacks, is almost an open-invite
for diabetes, too.
What makes this
frightening for the rest of us is that this is a man who is currently
responsible for a nuclear standoff with North Korea, as well as dealing
with rapidly warming oceans and an ever-increasing tax bill.
If he has this lack of concern for his own wellbeing, then what
does it say of his risk-assessment abilities?
Author Tim Abel is a former
English teacher from Australia who currently lives in Singapore and spends a
lot of time traveling the world for his wife’s work. Besides covering political
news for Addicting Info, he also writes his own blog, drtanstravels.com
