Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given a tongue-in-cheek diagnosis of President Trump's robust constitution, marveling at the president's ability to lose weight while consuming Big Macs and Diet Coke.
Kennedy, the nation's top public health official, said Trump "lost 30 pounds" even with "all the crap that he eats."
The comment came during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity at a Steak n Shake restaurant.
"I saw him yesterday, and I think he's lost 30 pounds," Kennedy told Hannity.
“He looks great," Hannity responded. "And he told me, he’s not using … for example, if he has a burger now, he usually doesn’t have it with a bun,” Hannity said.
"Oh, I didn’t know that he was actually changing his diet," Kennedy said.
Trump is famously fond of fast food - he even did a stint at McDonald's while campaigning for re-election last year.
Kennedy marveled at Trump's remarkable "genetic system," which has allowed the president to consume a diet most people would consider unhealthy while slimming down - and maintaining an extraordinary stamina level for a 78-year-old.
"I have to say this … and even with all the — can I say — crap that he eats," Kennedy said before Hannity cut him off.
A critic of ultra-processed food, Kennedy has made reducing chronic disease a top priority at the Health and Human Services Department, which he leads.
Already, the leader of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement has begun targeting unhealthy ingredients like food coloring, and he has said poor people on food stamps - who tend to have worse health outcomes - should not be able to buy junk foods like soda with government assistance.
“I’m not going to take them away from people, but we shouldn’t be subsidizing them,” Kennedy told Hannity. "We shouldn’t, as you said, 10 percent of food stamps, which are federally funded, taxpayer-funded program … is going to the poorest neighborhoods.”
Despite his conscientious mindset about nutrition, Kennedy was famously pictured eating McDonald's with Trump on the president's campaign plane last year.
As Kennedy quipped, eating fast food is an inevitable part of traveling with the Donald.
"Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison," Kennedy said at the time. "You have a choice between — you don’t have the choice. You’re either given KFC or Big Macs."
