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If the president of the United States eats like an unsupervised toddler, it's news. Especially if he's in his 70s.

 

He likes meat and potatoes. What a loser!

 

This is where we get into the amorphous area of "tone." I understand your point, if the focus is on his health. It's like reporting that a president smokes or drinks heavily. Here, I think it is often to make fun of him for being unsophisticated. It's the taunt that Manhattan has issued for four decades at this particular person.

 

I'm not sure what to think of this.

1. It was Lewindowsky, his own aide and campaign manager, who revealed his gross diet in his book, not the Times.

2. The Times mentioned his 12-a-day Diet Coke habit, which wasn't challenged and Trump has admitted on Twitter. Since Diet Cokes contain zero calories, how does this "shame" him?

3. If you have information in a wide-ranging profile that gives color to who someone is (Obama eats eight almomds at night) should you leave out this information from your profile for fear it will reflect poorly on him?

Trump likes Diet Coke. The Times wrote about that consumption. No one disputes this. The facts shame him?

 

This is a window into your assumptions, not the Times. Of all the reporters who take digs at the president, Haberman is not among them. And it's clear he feels warmly toward her as a result.

 

Walk into a gathering in a health-conscious, proudly progressive city.

Let's call it Boulder or Ann Arbor.

Tell the people there, particularly the moms in their cute yoga pants, you drink Diet Coke.

Sit back and enjoy.

 

Need more like her and less like Moore:

 

Haberman is the one that wrote that he "defended white supremacists."

 

Again, this makes presumptions on your part that the Times is writing to a specific pussified liberal audience with a wink wink to "shame" the president.

 

The food thing was just another detail included to show Trump's complete self-indulgence in every aspect of his life. Presidents have always had their diets and personal habits scrutinized. Look at Obama and smoking. FDR barely noticed what he ate, and the housekeeper of the White House served execrable meals that caused most in Washington to dread invitations to lunch or dinner there. This was well-known at the time. After Eisenhower's heart attack, his doctor gave health updates that included his bowel movements.

 

DD deserves the exact same scrutiny as the president of the United States.

 

12 Diet Cokes is more than 900 mg of caffeine. How he's not jittery all day is, honestly, amazing.