In a surprising twist, health advocate and environmental crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was spotted chowing down on McDonald’s with none other than Donald Trump.
The former presidential candidate—who’s now set to lead Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services—seemed out of place in the fast-food feast alongside Trump, Elon Musk, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Donald Trump Jr. The group, pictured aboard Trump’s private plane, had just wrapped up a UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden, marking a high-profile, and high-calorie, camaraderie session.
Trump’s campaign took the moment to social media with Trump’s deputy communications director, Margo Martin, posting on X: “POV: walking by the cool kids’ table.” The photo went viral, igniting a social media storm over what some are calling Kennedy’s “initiation” into Trump’s circle.
Kennedy, known for his strict health and diet views, has been anything but shy about his distaste for Trump’s eating habits. Just last week, he slammed the very meals now featured on Trump’s private jet.
“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” he said on “The Joe Polish Show” podcast. “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 the rest of the stuff, I consider kind of inedible.”
Kennedy’s shock at Trump’s diet didn’t stop there. He’s publicly vowed to combat the harmful ingredients in American food staples, especially McDonald’s famous fries. He claims they’re loaded with dangerous seed oils. “Why aren’t we making it with tallow fat again?” Kennedy mused on Fox News, lamenting the switch from beef tallow—a traditional cooking fat that he argues is healthier than today’s commonly used seed oils.
The irony of Kennedy partaking in a fast-food spread hasn’t been lost on his critics or his supporters. Conservative commentator Laura Loomer expressed her surprise on X: “I just want to know if he actually ate it.” Others saw it as an initiation ritual. “They’re hazing RFK Jr. with seed oils,” quipped one user, while another joked, “RFK Jr. can’t become full MAGA until the McDonald’s hazing ritual is complete.”
Trump, on the other hand, has proudly embraced his love for the Golden Arches. In fact, during his campaign, he staged a publicity event posing as a McDonald’s employee and has famously touted his devotion to the fast-food giant. It’s even part of his event rider. When he attended the Georgia-Alabama football game recently, he reportedly requested two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, Domino’s pizza, stadium hot dogs, and, of course, Diet Coke.
Kennedy’s own anti-seed-oil crusade has singled out McDonald’s fries in particular, which he’s proposed should return to beef tallow frying. “Your body needs that, it makes you healthy,” he argued. But shifting McDonald’s cooking oil back to beef fat would alter the iconic fries’ flavor and appearance, making them darker and meatier—something Kennedy believes is worth the trade-off for a healthier America.
Kennedy, who ran a third-party campaign under the slogan “Make America Healthy Again,” has frequently challenged Big Food and criticized the health risks associated with processed ingredients.
His alliance with Trump, especially over fast food, has raised eyebrows and questions: Has he softened on his strict dietary standards, or is this just part of the job?
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