Washington:
US President-elect Donald Trump’s decide for well being secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been pictured sharing a McDonald’s meal along with his future boss, days after they promised to “make America wholesome once more.”
Kennedy flew with Trump aboard his aircraft to an Final Combating Championship bout in New York on Saturday together with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Donald Jr., the Republican’s eldest son.
The 4 males are proven seated in entrance of trays of McDonald’s meals in a photograph posted on-line by Donald Jr. on Sunday which he jokingly captioned: “Make America Wholesome Once more begins TOMORROW.”
Trump and Kennedy, a scion of the well-known Democratic political household, campaigned collectively forward of the presidential election on November 5 promising to deal with processed meals amongst different priorities.
Asserting Kennedy’s nomination on Thursday, Trump mentioned that “for too lengthy, Individuals have been crushed by the commercial meals complicated and drug corporations.”
Social media commentators famous that Kennedy appeared the least enthusiastic of the diners as he gingerly held an opened burger field, with fries and a bottle of Coca-Cola in entrance of him.
The 70-year-old, a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine campaigner, has lengthy argued that america must curb its weight problems epidemic by decreasing the excessive ranges of sugar, fats and high-additive processed meals within the nationwide weight-reduction plan.
In a podcast posted final week, he was scathing about Trump’s weight-reduction plan, saying “the stuff that he eats is de facto dangerous.”
“Marketing campaign meals is all the time dangerous, however the meals that goes onto (Trump’s) airplane is simply poison,” he instructed the Joe Polish podcast. “You do not have a alternative, you are both given KFC or Huge Macs.”
Trump has by no means made a secret of his love of quick meals and Food regimen Coke, even briefly stopping to work at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania throughout his marketing campaign in October.
“I really like salt!” he instructed staff there.
Kennedy will want affirmation by the Senate to take up his job as well being secretary, with some senior Republicans voicing considerations about his suitability for the place.
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