Jared Kushner reveals Trump’s favorite McDonald’s order
Trump’s lovin’ it.
The 45th president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reveals in his forthcoming White House memoir that he knew Trump was recovering from his nasty bout of COVID in the fall of 2020 “when he requested one of his favorite meals.”
“McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” the husband of Ivanka Trump recounts, according to a copy of the book obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Trump’s affection for the Golden Arches is well-known and was much commented on during his time in office.
In 2018, Michael Wolff suggested in his controversial book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” that one of the main reasons the then-president preferred fast food was because he “had a longtime fear of being poisoned.”
“[O]ne reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade,” Wolff wrote.
Around the same time, former Trump aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie wrote in their own book that the real estate mogul preferred “two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish and a chocolate malted” when the craving struck.
In 2019, the 45th president even served fast food to the Clemson Tigers and North Dakota State Bison when they visited the White House to celebrate their college football national championships.
Trump tested positive for COVID-19 in October 2020, checking into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for three days to undergo treatment.
At the time, the president remained positive about his health, saying he was “feeling good.”
“Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge,” Trump tweeted after leaving the hospital. “I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”
While Kushner does not reveal many details of his father-in-law’s condition, he does claim that then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was “nervous” about Trump’s health.
According to Kushner, it was Meadows who encouraged Trump to check into Walter Reed in the first place.
“As the president recovered at Walter Reed, we all recognized that the [re-election] campaign would have to wait until Trump was both physically strong and medically cleared to return to the trail,” Kushner wrote. “In the meantime, he spoke directly to Americans through social media to update them on his recovery.”
Kushner’s memoir, “Breaking History,” is due out Aug. 23.