Our sensibilities were just graced with new details concerning Donald Trump’s disgusting fast food fixation that, frankly, I’m not sure anyone really wanted to know about.
Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, who also serves as a Florida state senator, offered up the stomach-churning new revelations during a recent appearance on a local government podcast, where he was asked to recount one of the funniest things he recalls happening to him while on the campaign trail.
Apparently, that was bearing witness to President Donald Trump’s “unique” McDonald’s order — something that has infamously been referred to as a “hideous Franken-burger” by The Daily Beast.
Speaking with Chambers, Changes, & Conversations, Gruters told the hosts that his funniest experience on the campaign trail came down to “The amount, and what the president eats. He had hot fries waiting for him from McDonald’s. Then he had a Filet-O-Fish, a Quarter Pounder, and a Big Mac, and I think he combined two of them.”
Gruters (thankfully) didn’t elaborate on which two McDonald’s sandwiches the president mushed together into an artery-clogging abomination, but he did add that Donald rounded out his heart attack on a bun with a crisp, cold orange soda.
“I’m thinking to myself, how does the guy that’s as senior as him get away with eating all this McDonald’s on a consistent basis?” the RNC chair goes on to add, much to my gag reflex’s misfortune.
McDonald’s own nutrition guide shows us that Trump’s order from the popular fast food joint clocks in at a staggering 2,372 calories, several hundred calories over the 2,000 calories per day recommended for men of Donald Trump’s age.
Gruters noted that eating just two of the fast food sandwiches personally made him “sick as a dog.”
“Yeah, he loves McDonald’s brand,” Gruters said on the show. “McDonald’s should be paying that guy – no kidding.”
Trump, of course, famously staged his infamous McDonald’s photo op last year, at a Pennsylvania branch of the Golden Arches franchise, where he dropped fries in oil, scooped them into containers, and worked the drive-through window.
Donald has long been known to harbor pretty severe germaphobe tendencies, and, during his McDonald’s pit stop, expressed his glee over the fact that he didn’t have to touch the french fries with his bare hands.
According to famous Trump biographer Michael Wolff, in his 2018 tell-all book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Trump is particularly fond of fast food like McDonald’s, because he feels that food prepared in advance, like what you’d find at the Golden Arches, is less susceptible to tampering.
You can listen to the podcast episode with Gruters’ revelations here.
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