Jill wants Joe, 80, to ditch the ice cream and stop eating ‘like a child’
A food fight is taking place in the White House, pitting Joe Biden’s love of junk food against Jill Biden’s quest to get him to eat healthier, according to a new report on Monday.
The president is a known lover of ice cream and enjoys whatever sweet treats he can get his hands on. He’s also been known to indulge when he’s outside the White House – he had a barbecue delivered to Air Force One when he was in Kansas City in December 2021 and ate pizza with the troops when he was in Poland in March 2022.
But the first lady urges him to eat more fish and vegetables, Axios reported, determined to clear up his tendency to eat junk. Jill Biden’s health boost comes amid questions about Joe Biden’s mental and physical fitness as he seeks a second term in office.
At 80 years old, he is the oldest president in American history. If he wins a second term, he would be 86 by the end of it.
Biden eats “like a kid,” some aides told the news outlet, eating a diet of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, BLTs, pizza, cookies, spaghetti with butter and red sauce, and ice cream.
Joe Biden’s eating habits come into question as he prepares for a second term — above, the president enjoys an ice cream cone at Moomers Homemade Ice Cream in Traverse City, Michigan, in July 2021
Biden keeps chocolate chip cookies outside the Oval Office for a snack — they’re even wrapped with the seal of the US president. He handed out a few to kids in April when they visited for Take Your Kid to Work Day.
He also told the children that he had “bacon, scrambled eggs and cheese on a croissant” for breakfast.
His preferences are known.
When Chef Edward Lee, a Korean-American chef known for infusing traditional American classics with Korean flavors, designed a menu for a state dinner for South Korea’s president in April, he said ice cream was a must. used to be.
“That was the first thing I was told – ice cream,” he told reporters.
He turned it into dessert – he designed a banana split to round out the three-course meal.
Jill Biden noted that her favorite course of the dinner was the “first,” a crab cake.
“Joe’s favorite will be the last,” she joked.
Jill Biden, who is known to enjoy a glass of wine, eats a lot of grilled chicken or fish.
She said Parade magazine in January 2021 that she prefers fresh fruits and vegetables, while the president likes ketchup, angel hair pasta with red sauce, and peanut butter and jelly.
“He’s pretty much a picky eater,” she said.
Jill Biden tries to get husband Joe Biden to eat healthier
Biden enjoys angel hair pasta with red sauce and pizza – above, eating pizza with US Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division near Rzeszow, Poland, in March 2022
When Joe Biden was vice president, the staff kept the place stocked with vanilla chocolate chip Häagen-Dazs ice cream, Special K cereal, a bunch of red grapes, sliced cheese, six eggs, sliced bread, a tomato from the garden , and always have at least two apples on hand, The New York Times reported.
President Biden doesn’t drink alcohol, but he likes orange Gatorade.
“He has the taste of a 5-year-old,” a longtime Biden adviser told me The Washington Post May 2021.
Biden’s doctor has stated that he is physically fit to serve, but the president is showing signs of his age — he sometimes walks with a limp, trips when boarding Air Force One, and he makes verbal blunders.
a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday found that more than 60 percent said Biden lacked the physical health and “mental acuity” to effectively serve as president. And only 3 percent said he was physically fit to be president.
By comparison, Donald Trump fared better: 64 percent of voters said he was physically fit enough, and 54 percent said he was mentally sharp enough to be president.
Biden has said he wakes up at 7 a.m. and trains at the White House at 8 a.m. He often needs a personal trainer – the residence has its own gym – and spends about 45 minutes working out.
And he occasionally takes a break during the day to go out in the Rose Garden and play with Commander, the Bidens’ German shepherd.
He relaxes by spending time with his family – mostly at his home in Wilmington. He also likes sports, especially football.
He is also a fan of cycling. He spent much of the COVID pandemic training on his Peleton. He often rides his bike at his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, or when his family visits Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
On Friday, while visiting DC’s Taqueria Habanero with Vice President Kamala Harris, Joe Biden ordered churros and a chicken quesadilla
Nina Walkuska, 10, whose father is a correspondent for Polish Radio, was invited to tour the Oval Office on Take Your Child to Work Day and presented with a presidential chocolate chip cookie
Biden downplays questions about his age. He joked about it during a recent speech at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
And in a Friday interview with MSNBC, he pointed to the benefit of his experience: “I’ve gained an awful lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people.”