Donald Trump’s ex-butler details one food the US President won’t eat
Tony Senecal served as Donald Trump’s butler for two decades—and he once alleged that his former client was a seriously ‘picky eater’.
The late employee, who also worked as the ‘in-house historian’ at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, claimed the father of five would often submit similar requests for him to collect fast-food meals.
“It was pretty much, 'Tony, bring me a cheeseburger and don't forget the ketchup,” the food expert told Inside Edition.
Apparently, if he wasn’t tucking into a burger, then the Republican was likely chowing down on a well-done steak.
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“It would rock on the plate, it was so well done”, he told the New York Times in 2016.
As Senecal knew what his employer preferred to eat, he was also well-versed in what he didn’t want on his plate.
And the one thing the President of the United States doesn’t like? Apparently vegetables.
“If it's vegetables, he doesn't want to see them. That's pretty much it,” Senecal said in the recently resurfaced interview.
“I don’t know how he’s alive”
This isn’t the first time that the politician’s aversion to veggies has been mentioned.
In 2020, his former doctor, Ronny Jackson, informed the New York Times that he would get kitchen staff to hide cauliflower in his mashed potatoes.
Despite his aversion to good green stuff, the physician claimed Trump had ‘incredible genes’ and that he could probably ‘live to 200’ if he cut back on junk food.
His opinion has been challenged by the Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy Jr., who previously described Trump’s diet as ‘really bad’.
“If you travel with him, you get this idea he is pumping himself full of poison all day long and you don't know how he's walking around, much less being the most energetic person any of us have ever met,” he told Katie Miller on her podcast.
"I don’t know how he’s alive," he told Katie Miller.
Donald Trump diet defended
Trump defended his fast-food diet earlier this year, claiming during an Oval Office event that he felt ‘exactly ‘the same’ at 79 as he did at 29’.
"I feel literally the same. Not because I eat the best foods. Maybe they are the best foods. Who knows what the best foods are? Maybe junk food is good and the other food is no good,” he alleged.
He suggested that despite what experts believe, what you put into your body may not play as big a role in overall health.
Trump added that he’d previously been out to restaurants with people who order celery.
“I’ll say, ‘how you doing?’, ‘Well, it’s over for me’. I know many, many people that all they do is watch their weight. They're this, that, and they kick the bucket, and here we are. I feel great.”
Ella Scott