Political Humor, Satire

Diet Coke Donald

Twelve a day? Maybe more if you are showing off classified war plans

John Dean
Dean’s List
Published in
4 min readJun 27, 2023

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By Evan-Amos — File:Diet-Coke-Can.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116617383

It takes a big man to drink a dozen cans of Diet Coke a day, but that’s what the 45th president did on a daily basis. It didn’t seem to help with his weight. Pundits suggest he weighed 243 pounds as president. The Diet Cokes, even 144 ounces of it daily, may have even expanded his waistline. Maybe that’s proof that Diet Coke drinkers don’t lose weight.

Reports suggest that Diet Coke Donald had a button installed on his White House desk so he could order a Diet Coke without verbally asking for it. That’s something a genius would do. It appears he either never installed one on his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club desk or did not use it when he shared classified documents with unauthorized persons, told them that he had not declassified them and that as ex-president, could no longer declassify them.

While showing off what were believed to be classified Pentagon plans to attack Iran, he had to ask for his favorite drink:

Hey, bring some, uh, bring some Cokes in please.

Asking for a Coke is not a crime, but Trump also let himself be recorded discussing the documents (and ordering the Coke.) That created…

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John Dean
Dean’s List

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