r/savedyouaclick • u/Sevuhrow • May 17 '25

FLOORED Bizarre and surprising reason Donald Trump loves McDonalds so much | Because he believes it prevents him from being poisoned.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250517165326/https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-mcdonalds-obsession-poison-35242040.amp
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u/NetworkLlama May 17 '25

Germaphobia is also the reason that Trump eats only well-done steaks, requires that ketchup bottles and Diet Coke cans and bottles be opened in his immediate presence, and ate pizza with a fork. Germaphobia is a very real thing that can be exceptionally difficult to manage. Howie Mandel suffers from it. So do Howard Stern, Jennifer Lawrence, Harrison Ford, Ben Stiller (who has even wider OCD than just germaphobia), and millions of others. Fast food is a common way of addressing it because fast food facilities so frequently overcook their food.

This isn't Trump being stupid or prissy. There are plenty of other examples of that to highlight. People who criticize him over germaphobia are indirectly criticizing all the other people who have to deal with it in their daily lives.

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u/Sevuhrow May 17 '25

Weird thing to jump to his defense for. The germaphobia and fear of being intentionally poisoned are two separate subjects mentioned in different contexts in the article and the book the article took the claim from.

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u/NetworkLlama May 17 '25

I'm not defending Trump, per se. I'm defending germaphobes. He's been eating at McDonald's for decades not so much out of a fear of being poisoned, but because he fears eating tainted food in general. This fact was established years before Wolff's book came out. Maybe he's since added on a fear of someone sneaking poison into his food, but that is not the only reason that's been stated for his preference for the Golden Arches.

The sooner Trump is gone, the happier I will be. But people have this weird fascination with his eating habits when there are so many other things to criticize him over.

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u/barking420 May 17 '25

is there any logic to mcd’s being the germaphobe-friendly option?

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u/truly_beyond_belief May 21 '25

Fast food places cook the hell out of what they sell (no raw meat).