I ate Trump's absurd, 2,430-calorie McDonald's order and it was even worse than I imagined

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It's a well-documented fact that Donald Trump loves fast food.

And as attested to in a new book written by two of his former campaign aides, his go-to from McDonald's is quite the tall order.

The president's typical order at the Golden Arches is two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish sandwiches, and a large chocolate shake - malted, according to the book. That's a lot of calories for one meal - 2,430 in all.

I'm a big fan of McDonald's myself - my shameless love of the Big Mac is public knowledge. It's my go-to order at McDonald's, no less.

Of course, I only order one, but who's counting? I'm assuming running a global business enterprise takes a lot of energy, never mind leading the free world.

So, I decided to try Trump's beefy and brash lunch choice to truly immerse myself in the down-to-earth culinary tastes of one of the most powerful men in the world.

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[Orrex]

1. Never have I been so glad that McDonalds food is so bad for you

Tick tock, tick tock.

[NightWatcher]

3. Yet another reason Mueller needs to hurry

[wryter2000]

2. I couldn't have choked down the shake

I enjoy McDonald's breakfast sometimes, but honestly, WHAT is in those shakes?

[LeftInTX]

4. I ordered a shake from McDonalds a few months ago

Never again!!!

The last time I had a shake was about 15 years ago.
Since they become McCafe shakes, I thought they had improved.

They are nothing but sugary syrup and some reconstituted powder.

I had a horrible sugar high.

I don't get sugar highs if I order a shake from Sonic or Culver's.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. I usually limit myself to their breakfasts as well

I think I had their Filet O Fish the last time I had lunch there. Nasty pasty thing passing for fish. I'd rather have a couple of fish tacos at Taco Del Mar.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Fast Food Nation

Poster Boy

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. My immediate family, no matter how healthy they live, keep dying off young. Even my cat

at 9. But yet somehow others manage to hang on. Even when they treat their bodies like shit. Go figure.

[Freddie]

7. What, no fries?

The best thing McDonald’s does.
I too admit to enjoying a Big Mac on occasion, maybe 2x year. Yummy if it’s fresh and hot and you’re starving.

[TeamPooka]

8. No ay I could eat all that. And Im not a little eater but a Quarter pounder, fries and a shake would

fill me up pretty well.
Can't see how all that could be eaten by one man in one sitting.

[underpants]

9. When MSN start this Slides crap?

Just print the damn story and I'll stay on your website until I finished reading it. Seriously? Click bait formatting?

[Hortensis]

19. It's copied from better sites, but it's from LEWANDOWSKI'S book.

As in only the usual eager fools would swallow anything from that. Couple of Bic Macs and fish sandwiches AND a chocolate malted in one Big Gulp, anyone?

[anneboleyn]

58. McDonalds doesnt serve malts. Ever. So if Corey wrote this hes just lying.

[Hortensis]

59. Didn't pick up on that. :) The play places are the only

reason I ever go there, and grandkids are currently too old and too young.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Big Macs + Filet-O-Fish mealan uncouth person's "Surf and Turf."

I don't really mind either of those sandwiches, but just the thought of that meal nauseates me.

[Initech]

13. I believe that's called the McSurf And Turf.

[Thor_MN]

47. There you go. Low Class Surf and Turf.

Brilliant, And fits with Dolt45's Pence's Pets comment.

[magicarpet]

11. Just visualizing tr-dump snorting and farting....

..... while wolfing down that meal is barf-bag territory for me. Can not believe that hunk of lard swine is actually the USA pResident.

[Initech]

15. Reminds me of the episode of Family Guy...

Where Peter was told by the doctor that he needs to lose weight. So rather than do anything about it, he decides to start the National Association For The Advancement Of Fat People. And the first meeting was them eating, farting, wheezing, and one guy broke a desk.

I could so picture Trump doing this.

[MFM008]

17. I know

The crazy brother in law is the "fat guy strangler...."

[brooklynite]

12. Want fries with that?

Or too many empty calories?

[eppur_se_muova]

14. For dessert, one thin mint ...

[diva77]

28. LOL - reminded me of a scene from Animal House

[titaniumsalute]

16. Years ago I ate McDs

Back in college. I would get two filet o fish, large fries, and an unsweet iced tea. I can't even imagine shoving two Big Macs in above and beyond that.

[louis-t]

24. I do like the fish but.....

postage stamp-sized slab of fish with a half slice of cheese is $4.50? I stopped at 3 am at store in Port Huron after a gig. I was STARVING. I ordered a quarter pounder. Eating in the dark on the way home I suddenly realized they had given me a double quarter pounder. Bonus!

[OriginalGeek]

18. Since when does McD do malted milkshakes?

I can't remember when I last had a McD shake - at least 40 years - but I have a big Mac or a Filet every now and then. But I love malts - If I had known they had them I might have ordered them more often. My daughter gets a vanilla shake once in a while but I don't recall ever seeing an option for malt.

We go to Steak and Shake about 4 times a year and I always get a chocolate malt there.

[johnp3907]

27. I was wondering the same thing.

Shakes were the only things I ever got at McDonalds, and I haven't had one in years, but I don't remember there being a malted option.

[Dave Starsky]

48. McDonald's has never offered a chocolate malted.

You can even see what all their menu items are, and their ingredients, on their website.

We aren't the only ones scratching our heads about this. Either the writer of the original article made a mistake, or Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. My money is on the latter.

[anneboleyn]

55. They do NOT offer malts. Only milkshakes. And their shakes are already blended when they arrive

at the individual stores. It seems the writer doesn’t have as much experience with McDonalds as claimed as any person who goes there to get Big Macs knows that they don’t make malts, ever. Making malts involves adding malt powder into the ice cream, milk, and flavoring BEFORE blending them all together. The blending is crucial as otherwise the consumer will get stuck with big chunks of unblended malt powder in their shakes.

McDonald’s shakes (which aren’t really milkshakes but that’s another issue) are already blended when they arrive to the individual restaurants, and that mix immediately goes into the milkshake machine, which is not a blender (it stirs the mix to even it out and keeps the mix cold — but it doesn’t actually blend anything). Malt powder is never put into the mix, and it can’t be stirred into a milkshake once out of the machine as it won’t blend properly and would leave the consumer with chunks of malt in their shakes.

No malts, period. This should have been known given the writer’s claim to know McDonald’s or at least checked against the menu (all of the items should have been checked against the menu to avoid simple mistakes). Basic mistakes such as this one unfortunately contribute to Trump’s “fake news” bullshit. I hate saying that about this story but unfortunately we must have our basic facts in order (as in order as possible). This is the kind of detail Trumpers would use to claim the entire story was false.

[Dave Starsky]

56. Exactly.

Thanks for that.

[OriginalGeek]

60. Well that's what I thought...

the author of the article should have checked that - they did say "according to the book" and the 2 aides who wrote the book could be deliberately throwing fake shit out there. I certainly don't put it past them to offer up fake news just for this type of occasion.

[The_jackalope]

20. How cone the name McDonald Trump hasn't stuck to him yet?

I know we have bigger things to worry about than what he eats, but it's still a decent nick.

[Ken Burch]

23. You may be the first person who's suggested calling him "McDonald".

good one.

[Ken Burch]

21. Anybody else wondering why he doesn't get fries with that?

I mean, if you're gonna put in an order that'll kill you, might as well get the best thing on the McMenu, right?

[Frustratedlady]

52. He's trying to watch his fat? eom

[smirkymonkey]

22. He's such a glutton. He can't even eat a normal fast food meal, it has to be

a total grease binge. God, he's disgusting!

[Initech]

25. Maybe all that grease is going straight to his head.

[smirkymonkey]

36. Actually, I think he saves it up for Eric and Don Jr's heads.

Certainly looks like it.

[DangerousUrNot]

26. I guess he never saw Super Size Me

[diva77]

31. time for a sequel: Long term effects of eating McD's starring _______

fill in the blank...

[DangerousUrNot]

37. TRUMP

[Girard442]

29. When summer comes he can picnic outside while staring at the sun.

[lunatica]

32. Quick! Someone suggest that to him!

I'm sure he'll do it!

[Girard442]

34. Better yet, tell him Hillary said it was a bad thing.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. And Obama said so as well

[Paladin]

30. Gracious Lord, let nature take its course. Just as soon as possible. (nt)

[Awsi Dooger]

33. Naturally I handicapped the fast food world correctly

Burger King exponentially superior to McDonald's.

A Big Mac is a perfect Republican sandwich because you've basically got to be stupid to think it holds any value or competence, especially compared to the incomparable Whopper.

I only get stuck at McDonald's once or twice per year, while visiting my sister who worked at McDonald's as a teenager and stubbornly refuses to clear her lens. Fortunately her kids are much more astute and always use me to take them to Burger King multiple times when I visit.

[Docreed2003]

35. I love McDonalds....sue me, Im an eighties kid and still miss Grimace and the fry girls....

That being said, I can only afford to stop in maybe once a month and stay in any kind of reasonable shape.

I can’t imagine eating two Big Macs, maybe when I was 15, much less two filet of fish on top of that...yuck, God knows when the last time that fish was swimming. And then to add a chocolate shake on top of that???

I participated in many, MANY teenage throw down eating competitions...yeah we were bored teenagers and we didn’t have social media on our phones or the internet like we have today, so, it seemed like we always ended up challenging each other to stupid food challenges...Thursday night was all you could eat pancakes at McDonald’s, some weekends we’d trek to Nashville for milkshake drinking contests at Rotiers, which always included as part of the challenge a run through Centienial Park...last to puke won!

Ah, being a teenager in the 90’s was such a less complex and interesting time!! Lol

But I’m not a teenager anymore and I don’t gorge myself on fast food and it’s a fucking embarrassment that we have a *President who considers doing so fine dining. Of course he likes his steak burnt with ketchup!! He’s a fucking child!!! What an absolute discrace to the office, and I say that as someone who fully supported Bill stopping by the local McDonalds in the 90’s because at least he was running afterwards!! Ugh!! We’re living out “Idiocracy” in real time!

[Buns_of_Fire]

38. Only TWO Big Macs? More, more, he's still not satisfied!

[Oneironaut]

39. Its a *watching a Trump speech* simulator!

At the end you feel nauseous and like someone fed you a bunch of shit!

[Tipperary]

40. There is no way I could eat any of that. Taste aside, that is just too much food.

I can eat at Mickey D’s when on a long car trip, even then I usually pack my own food. But if I do, it will always be a cheeseburger and fries. Nothing more. Then I usually feel sick for a couple hours. I just cannot remember the last time I ate fast food. I cannot imagine eating what he eats. That has got to catch up with him eventually.

[left-of-center2012]

41. I like the filet of fish

[GulfCoast66]

43. Maybe 6 times a year. When on the road and nothing better near.

Always filet and large unsweetened tea which it took this southerner years to get used to.

If I want a shake, which I occasionally enjoy, I hit Steak and Shake.

But both are carb bombs which bring on lots of bad health problems.

[Blue Owl]

45. Grease it up, fucker

C'mon Donnie, clog those arteries...

[ecstatic]

46. Wouldn't half of the food be cold and disgusting by the time he finished

the first half? If not, it means he eats everything at an extraordinary pace, which is even more troubling.

[Tracer]

49. When my son was a teenager, he worked at McD's

One day, he asked me to come to McDonalds and eat lunch with him.

I had never had McNuggets before, and for some reason decided to order them.

They came with a dipping sauce, and when I "dipped" my nugget ----- I spit it out and asked my son why they serve butterscotch sauce with the chicken!!

Of course, it wasn't butterscotch sauce, but that's exactly what it tasted like. Ugh.

[spanone]

50. Are you still in ICU ?

[ginnyinWI]

51. since everything related to Trump seems to be a fabrication--

why would this particular report of what he eats be true?

He looks down on people who have pets as being low class. Why would he eat McDonald's food? It doesn't make sense.

I want an actual video actually showing him eating all of that food. Because Trump is a liar and self promoter and wants to be seen as an everyday person.

The author of this book isn't actually an enemy, so he must still be an ally.

[anneboleyn]

57. McDonalds has never offered malts (only shakes). I dont think the writer knew he was making

an error but the error still undermines the article. McDonald’s doesn’t make malts — so how can Trump be ordering one all the time with the meal described? The writer also claims to know McDonald’s well but that seems unlikely.

[BigDemVoter]

53. Does Pussy Grabber REALLY eat all that shit in one sitting?

That may explain his rapidly expanding belly, but I wonder how he even manages to force it all down. . . .

[Turbineguy]

54. Some years ago

I was in a McDonalds in lower Manhattan. The calorie counts were posted next to the items.

"I'll have a coffee please!"

[CanonRay]

61. I like to eat, but

that's more than I could get down in one sitting.

[book_worm]

62. That's why he has such a lard ass