Just poison: Trump's health secretary pick RFK Jr rips his love for fast food

While Donald Trump is known for his love of fast food, his nominee for the health department, Robert F Kennedy Jr, champions the removal of processed foods from grocery store shelves.

In Short

• Robert F Kennedy Jr advocates against processed foods
• Donald Trump is a well-known fan of fast food
• RFK Jr criticises Trump's eating habits as 'poison', 'really bad'

Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s choice to head the US Health Department, recently delivered a scathing critique of the President-elect’s eating habits, labelling what he heats as "poison". In a recent interview, RFK Jr, asserted that Trump’s diet during the campaign trail was “really bad”.

Kennedy is an ardent advocate for removal of processed foods from grocery store shelves, while Trump is notorious for his fondness for fast food.

“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Kennedy said in a podcast.

“Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison. You have a choice between — you don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s, like, when you’re lucky, and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible,” he remarked.

Kennedy, during the interview, also recalled a conversation with an executive of a mixed martial arts company who told him that he would sometimes sit through an hour-long fight with Trump, “and he’s never seen Trump drink a glass of water,” news outlet Daily Beast reported.

“And then he (drinks) Diet Coke,” Kennedy said.

However, Kennedy also acknowledges the cultural significance of fast food in America. He has defended it as part of American culture, despite his health initiatives.

On Friday, Trump named RFK Jr, an anti-vaccine campaigner to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

"We want you to come up with things and ideas and what you've been talking about for a long time and I think you're going to do some unbelievable things," Trump told him.

With Kennedy’s appointment at the helm, the US Health Department under Donald Trump is expected to see substantial changes to established health policies and practices.