Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving Donald Trump’s diet a chance.
The health nut, who has been tapped by Trump to run the Department of Health and Human Services, was photographed aboard the president-elect’s plane sharing McDonald’s and Coca-Cola with Trump, Elon Musk, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump Jr. Sunday.
“POV: walking by the cool kids table,” Trump’s deputy director of communications for his campaign, Margo Martin, wrote on X alongside the photo of the entourage, who traveled to New York City to attend UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden Saturday.
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The meal choice comes as a shock for the Kennedy scion, who has said the food that America’s next leader eats is so unhealthy it’s practically “poison.”
“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” he said on the podcast, “The Joe Polish Show” in an episode that aired Tuesday. “Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. You have a choice between—you don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s when you’re lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible.”
The failed presidential candidate, who made a third-party bid under the slogan “Make America Health Again,” also knocked Trump’s well-documented love of Diet Coke.
“And then he [drinks] Diet Coke,” Kennedy added on the podcast. “I was with Dana White the other day... he’s very close to Trump, they’ve had a relationship for 20 years through UFC. He said that sometimes he’ll sit through a fight with Trump—and he’s [there for] five hours [during] the fight—and said he has never seen Trump drink a glass of water. Never."
Kennedy has frequently named McDonald’s french fries as an example of a product sold in the U.S. that he would regulate the ingredients of when he joins the Trump administration.
The 70-year-old is particularly against the seed oils used to make the salty fries, calling for the popular menu item to be cooked instead in beef fat tallow.
The change, however, would give the golden fries a more brown color and a meatier flavor.
“Your body needs that, it makes you healthy,” Kennedy said on Fox News of the tallow method.
“Why aren’t we making it with tallow fat again?”
Given his much-publicized distaste for the fast food giant, many online users expressed their disbelief that he would give it a try.
“I just want to know if he actually ate it,” far-right online personality Laura Loomer wrote on X.
Another X user wrote, "They’re hazing RFK Jr. with seed oils."
"RFK, Jr. can’t become full MAGA until the McDonald’s hazing ritual is complete," one user wrote.
Meanwhile, Trump has been a loyal patron of the Golden Arches.
He proudly pretended to work at McDonald‘s during his election campaign as part of a publicity stunt.
The fast-food giant has been a mainstay on his campaign rider. While attending the Georgia-Alabama college football game Sept. 28, he requested “two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches with cheese from McDonald’s, stadium hotdogs [sic], Domino’s pizza and Diet Coke,” according to AL.com.
