Karoline Leavitt Comments on Trump’s Habits and MAHA Agenda After RFK Jr. Questions His Health

 Karoline Leavitt Comments on Trump’s Habits and MAHA Agenda After RFK Jr. Questions His Health

Karoline Leavitt Comments on Trump’s Habits and MAHA Agenda After RFK Jr. Questions His Health

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt acknowledged that Donald Trump "has his own personal habits" when asked about Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent interview, in which he criticized the president's diet, saying Trump was "pumping himself full of poison."

Speaking to Politico, Leavitt, 28, was discussing the White House's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign, after Trump, 79, announced on Wednesday, Jan. 14, that children would now have access to whole milk in schools.

Trump's diet has long been a talking point, and the day prior, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, Kennedy, 71, made some bold claims about the president's eating habits on Katie Miller's podcast.

“He eats really bad food, which is McDonald’s, and candy and Diet Coke. But he drinks Diet Coke at all times,” Kennedy explained to the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, before insisting, "He has the constitution of a deity."

"I don’t know how he’s alive," the health secretary continued. "He's just pumping himself full of poison all day long."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in the Oval Office alongside Donald Trump on Jan. 14.

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Leavitt was then asked about the interview as she spoke to Politico on Wednesday. 

She said when questioned about Trump's thoughts on the MAHA policies and advice, as well as Kennedy's comments about the president's "unhinged eating habits," “The president has his own personal habits, but he understands the movement and the power behind all of these moms who have united in pushing for a real public health change, and he fully supports it and gets it."

"He’s also a huge believer in choice for parents in parental decision making, whether it comes to education or health. He knows that parents are the best people who are best suited to make decisions for their kids, and he fully empowers that mentality,” Leavitt added to the outlet.

Donald Trump and press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Jan. 11.

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Despite Kennedy pointing out Trump's more unhealthy eating habits, he also said that when the president is back at “Mar-a-lago or at the White House, he’s eating really good food.” He told Miller that while Trump is on the road, he eats food from big corporations because he “trusts it and he doesn’t want to get sick.”

The White House didn't immediately respond when contacted by PEOPLE for comment.

White House spokesman Kush Desai previously responded to Kennedy's claims in a statement to PEOPLE, saying, “Secretary Kennedy is right: as his golf championships and flawless physical report results indicate, President Trump has the constitution and energy levels most young people could only dream of having.”

Trump mentioned his health while speaking at a press conference on Wednesday about the benefits of whole milk. The president signed the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act" in the Oval Office that day, per a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) press release.

He told reporters during the conference that drinking milk had helped him ace his previous cognitive tests.

“I’ve taken a lot of them,” Trump said. “I’ve aced every one of them because I drink milk.”

Donald Trump discusses providing whole milk for children in the Oval Office on Jan. 14.

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The president's comments about his health during the conference came after he boasted about "acing" his latest cognitive examination in a Truth Social post on Jan. 2.

"The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in 'PERFECT HEALTH,' and that I 'ACED' (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take,"' he wrote.

"P.S.," he added, "I strongly believe that anyone running for President, or Vice President, should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful, and proven Cognitive Examination. Our great Country cannot be run by 'STUPID' or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE! President DJT."

Trump's claim of nailing three cognitive exams is not new, leaving uncertainty about whether he is actually referring to a new report.

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