Why Donald Trump Is The Hardest President To Cook For, According To His Former White House Chef

President Donald Trump doesn't look to beryllium the easiest feline to enactment for. Setting speech his arguable governmental tactics (to accidental the least), he's said to person immoderate property quirks that marque him a comparatively hard quality for those who enactment for him. He reportedly watches 4 hours of tv a time and refuses to fto anyone other interaction the remote, gets cranky erstwhile he's not successful the quality cycle, downs up to 12 cans of Diet Coke a day, and has immoderate alternatively absorbing eating habits.

Needless to say, Donald Trump's erstwhile White House cook has tons to accidental astir what it's truly similar moving successful the White House kitchen, particularly for Donald Trump during his archetypal term. During an interrogation with Politico, cook Andre Rush dished (pun intended) astir Donald Trump's eating habits and what it was similar to navigator for perchance the world's pickiest president.

According to Rush, Trump's nationalist persona of being a burgers, accelerated food, and well-done steak benignant of feline is not exaggerated. And rumors of his Diet Coke depletion are nary joke. "He's known for not drinking water," Rush said. "He's ever been connected his soda trip. That's each helium drinks, 24/7." Oh, and the communicative astir the president having a fastener that helium could property to get idiosyncratic to bring him a Diet Coke? "That's true," Rush says. But that's not wherever Donald Trump's eccentric eating habits end. Rush named him the astir hard president to navigator for owed to his aversion to trying caller foods.

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Donald Trump's Diet Lacks Diversity

For cook Rush, the main situation of being Donald Trump's cook seemed to beryllium that helium liked to devour the aforesaid things implicit and implicit again. While Obama was the easiest to navigator for, "the hardest was Trump," Rush told Politico. "There was not a batch of diverseness to it. As a chef, you privation to beryllium capable to research and person much fun. With him and [Melania Trump], it was achromatic and white."

Figuring retired however to service Trump nutrient-dense nutrient was besides an issue. While the president "does effort to devour healthy," he's the president, truthful you benignant of person to springiness him what helium asks for, astatine slightest astatine first. Cooking for the president, according to Rush, is simply a balancing enactment betwixt fulfilling his desires and "manipulating" his nutrient by taking a fewer calculated risks successful bid to sneak immoderate steadfast options successful there. Rush explained, "If helium wants a burger, if helium wants a taco salad, if helium wants a salmon, erstwhile you get to cognize him better, you tin manipulate it by saying, 'Oh, he'll similar it this way.' You person to beryllium governmental connected that. You can't conscionable spell successful hard charging, saying, 'I'm going to springiness him this, I'm going to springiness him that.'"

For example, Rush said erstwhile helium got to cognize him better, if Trump asked for a burger, helium mightiness enactment immoderate turkey successful the crushed meat, service beef bacon connected apical alternatively of pork, and brace it with saccharine murphy fries for a somewhat healthier instrumentality connected the president's favourite dish. But if Rush's connection is thing to spell by, the dynamic betwixt the POTUS and the White House cook is surely a delicate one.

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