Donald Trump celebrated clinching the 2020 Republican presidential nomination with McDonald's and a Diet Coke.
Donald Trump celebrated clinching the 2020 Republican presidential nomination with McDonald's and a Diet Coke.
United States President Donald Trump has claimed that diet soft drinks could potentially eliminate cancer cells, according to Dr Mehmet Oz.
Oz, who heads the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services, made the comments on Donald Trump jnr’s podcast, Triggered.
“Then come the diet soda pops, which your dad arguesare good for him because they kill grass [when] poured on it, so therefore they must kill cancer cells inside the body,” the doctor said on the podcast.
Oz said Trump often makes a point of displaying his stash of sweets and can press a red button in the Oval Office to have a diet soft drink brought in during meetings.
Diet soft drinks are generally regarded by the medical community as unhealthy, according to Healthline, with some studies linking them to weight gain and insulin resistance, factors that can contribute to type two diabetes.
Robert F. Kennedy jnr and Oz have been leading figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement, encouraging Americans to avoid processed foods and improve their dietary habits.
However, their efforts to persuade the US President to change his own diet have not been successful, according to the New York Post.
US President Donald Trump likes McDonald's and Diet Coke.
“We were on Air Force One the other day, and I walked in because he wanted to talk about something, and he had an orange soft drink on his desk,” Oz said.
“I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’
Trump started to sheepishly grin, Oz said.
“He goes, ‘You know, this stuff is good for me – it kills cancer cells.’
“And then he tells me, ‘It’s fresh squeezed, so how bad could it be for you?’”
