The New York Times has published an inside look at Donald Trump’s presidency one year in and how he’s been coping with his new role as a world leader.
Not surprisingly, being POTUS requires a lot of focus, energy, and, yes, stamina. So how does Donald keep his stamina up? According to the Times, he consumes 12 Diet Cokes a day.
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That’s roughly 360 Diet Cokes a month. Times that by the number of months he’s been in office (11) and Trump has consumed around 3960 Diet Cokes since stepping into the Oval Office last January.
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Dr David Katz, a nutrition expert at the Yale School of Medicine, tells Metro consuming that much soda is terrible for a person’s bones.
“Twelve cans a day, diet or regular, it’s potentially going to do damage to your skeleton, and eventually that can be a very serious problem,” he says.
I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2012
Of course, every president needs some downtime to unwind. For Donald, this means watching TV. Lots and lots (and lots) of TV.
According to the New York Times:
Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.
Apparently he gets all worked up over what cable news says about him then “he shares thoughts with anyone in the room, even the household staff.”
OK, let’s do the math again. If Donald watches (at least) four hours of TV a day, that’s roughly 120 hours of TV-watching a month. Times that by the number of months he’s been in office and he’s watched well over 1,300 hours of TV since taking office.
CNN cuts to Trump. TV is blasting 588-2300 Empire jingle in background. pic.twitter.com/C5hRxeWg8H
— ?arcusD (@_MarcusD2_) January 26, 2017
Trump claims he doesn’t watch nearly as much television as the Times claims, responding to the report by saying, “I don’t get to watch much television, primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents a lot.”
Rading documents. Riiiiight.
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RIGay
“ALL FAKE!!”
He had a BUTTON installed on his DESK so he could ORDER A COKE!!! Really?
Hope the diabetic stroke comes soon…
DCguy
I’m more concerned with the fact that he is taking money from foreign governments who stay at the Hotel in DC, and is spending more money on his vacations than it would take to support several child health programs.
o.codone
DCGuy, now I get it. You’re thinking of Hillary taking gobs of cash in speaking fees from gay-hating foreign governments, right? And then, you’re remembering all the Obama family vacations where she and he took separate planes and even sometimes had the dog flown up to MV in it’s own personal chopper. Your memory is a little foggy about who’s who. And, those child health care programs? That’s why we have Obamacare. Everybody’s covered. No worries.
1EqualityUSA
If the idiot sucks all of the phosphorus out of his bones, his head will disappear.
NateOcean
The phosphoric acid would explain his teeth falling out, and all that aspartame would explain his multiple brain malfunctions.
marcinmass
Guess it explains why the food at his hotels is just marginal. He likes Big Macs and Diet Cokes. Who eats that stuff. Uneducated and ignorant people, that’s who.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/disgusting-ingredients-in-mcdonalds-burgers.html
OzJosh
I once worked with someone who chugged Diet Coke all day, but probably never quite reached twelve cans a day. Maybe only eight or nine. Even so, I soon noticed that her mood, responses and ability to concentrate and think were severely disrupted by the end of the day. She’d be jittery and distracted, and would have trouble following a train of thought or expressing herself as clearly as she would earlier in the day. This was someone who otherwise ate healthily (unlike Trump). I’ve no doubt it was the Diet Coke affecting her responses. God knows what twelve cans a day does to someone as clearly unhealthy as Trump.
Mandrake
He must be on heavy cholesterol and blood pressure meds. His diet may make Impeachment unnecessary.
Brody
Yes, Obi-Wan, the Trump Derangement Syndrome IS strong with this one, for now, in yet another desperate attempt to discredit him, they’re measuring his capabilities by his food consumption.
aaparker
“In another attempt to discredit him”. I just can’t wrap my head around a phrase like this one. You really think his words, actions, and policies are those of someone who has so much integrity, leadership, and savvy that it takes a concerted effort from myriad media sources to “discredit” him? Really deep down inside you believe him to be exemplary in his position? I find that utterly fascinating. I know there have been a lot of articles and studies over the past year about what separates the thinking of those on the left and the right. And I understand that Trump triggers a pleasing note of authoritarianism to those on the right. But at this point, with everything that he has done, particularly to chip away at the rights and safety of the LGBT community (of which I assume you are part) you still choose to turn a blind eye to his deficiencies, greed, and narcissism? I don’t get it.
Brody
Mr. Parker, you’re going to have to back up your statement with one—just one—instance in which President Trump has done anything to “chip away at” our “rights and safety.”
Come on. Just one factual instance. Shouldn’t be that hard.
1EqualityUSA
Loading Federal courts and Supreme Court with homophobes, attempting to restrict Transgendered soldiers from serving by telling U.S. lawyers not to recognize transgender, gave a speech to anti-gay groups–refusing to acknowledge Pride, attempts to erase LGBT by not counting them in the census, forty percent of those living with HIV require assistance from Medicaid and Trump is undermining ACA leaving many out of care, Trump hasn’t named anyone to head the office of Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS leaving those currently there to resigned in protest, saying the president just “doesn’t care.” Trump uses “Religious Liberty” to attack LGBT. Now he’s for churches being able to be politically active without risking tax-exempt status. Trump joked that his vice presidential pick “Hot-Pence” is the one wanting to “Hang all of the gays.” I could go on, but this would be feeding the troll more than what is deserved.
aaparker
Thank you 1EqualityUSA. I’m surprised that anyone needed to do that, but perhaps Brody really is unaware.
1EqualityUSA
perhaps
Brody
1Equality-
#1 – Trannsies aren’t gay—by their own admission, they’re heteros trapped in the bodies of the opposite gender, so I and many other gays do not see this as an attack on us. It’s a military issue, which is something you certainly do not have the background to comment on. Strike one.
#2 – Gave a speech to people who don’t like us? Big deal. So did Obama, on may occasions. Strike two.
#3 – He’s never “attacked” us using “Religious liberty.” You’ll have to get a little more specific on that one. Strike three—you’re out, but we’ll continue.
#4 – His joke about Pence? It’s called a “joke” for a reason.
#5 – It is undeniable that Donald Trump in his first year as president is 100 times more gay-friendly than Barack Obama was in his first FOUR years as president, or do you not recall King O. stating over and over and over again that “marriage is between one man and one woman”?
Cracks me up how liberals believe that something must be true just because they say it is.
1EqualityUSA
Sonja Sotomayor. Elena Kagan. Merrick Garland. Now, who did Trump tattoo onto the bench for the next four decades? Brody, your ship is sinking.
KaiserVonScheiss
Yeah, I don’t believe that for a second. I doubt there are many people who could drink that much soda in a day. I know I can’t.
And what is the point of this story, and how does this relate to gay anything?
Once again, it doesn’t. It’s just petty nonsense.
mhoffman953
Like we’re supposed to believe this. The average American drinks 45 gallons of soda a year. Doing the math (according to the New York Times), President Trump would drink 548 gallons of soda a year. If that were true, he’d be on My 600lb Life on TLC
Figures that the media would throw out a ridiculous childish conspiracy that no one can actually prove or disprove instead of focusing on actual issues facing our country or world. This is similar to when all of the news outlets ran the story of Trump supposedly “over feeding” fish in Japan which was misleading and false reporting.
happy50132003
What a STUPID article. First of all who cares how many diet cokes Trump drinks and second of all if some one has time to count them and keep track …..they need to be terminated and the money saved on their salary goes to a homeless vet. AND reading how the democrats can even use the fires in a way to bad mouth the republicans is shameful.
Bob LaBlah
The only thing Trump has done is make one really wonder if McCain/Palin had one in ’08 and McCain died (and Palin took over) could we in any worse of a moral, leaderless slump. I honestly do think Palin would NOT have been this bad. Seriously, I just don’t think she could have been any worse and as a matter of fact I think she would have done better. After all, Sarah was from a poor background (working class, its the same damn thing) and did know how to hunt and skin her own food which did put her a little more closer to normal folks like me and you more or less.
DCguy
List of the anti-lgbt troll screenames MoBro used on this post.
Old School one returning for an appearance.
Brody
Current heavy rotation screenames here to attack any mention of Trump
KaiserVonScheiss
mhoffman953
New screename he’s trying out
happy50132003
mhoffman953
@DCguy
You seriously need help
o.codone
CDGuy. You might be right about MoBro using a bunch of bogus names. Because, if all the names were actual people, then there would be (including you and me), 6 people reading this site. And, we know for sure this site cannot actually attract 6 people on any given day. So, yeah, you’re probably right.
o.codone
Re the diet Coke issue. Seriously, this is what gays care about? School girl trashing of the President of the United States because of the amount of soda he drinks? It’s no wonder the population at large discriminates against gays and mocks and ridicules us. As long as we act like fools we will continue to be the targets of haters. How does acting like silly, girlish queens with nothing on our minds except the number of Cokes POTUS drinks advance our agenda or bolster our credibility? It doesn’t, it destroys it. Engaging in silly, giggly teenage bullying makes us targets even within our own community. So why don’t we try growing up. This trash is destroying our gravitas and trivializing our agenda.
cjh007
He’s 71 years old… Do you know how many others who would be his age have died eating “healthy diets” while he’s still thriving! Would they say the same about coffee? I bet he drinks that much soda for the caffeine and remember Mr. President’s day goes from 7:00am until well after midnight. On average they serve at least 16 hour days! I bet it’s the caffeine!