Washington (AP) – Make American Coke again great?
chairman Donald Trump On Wednesday said that Coca Cola On its suggestion, the US has agreed to use real Kane Chinese in its major soft drinks – although the company did not confirm such a step.
Any switch Coca-Cola from high-fructose corn syrup sold in Coke sold in the United States will be kept more in other countries including Mexico and Australia. But this will not affect the drink of Trump’s choice, the diet coke, which uses aspartem as a calorie-free drink.
Trump wrote on his social media site, “I am talking to Coca-Cola about using Real Kane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so.” “I want to thank all the people of the authority in Coca-Cola. It will be a very good step by them-you’ll see you. It’s better!”
A spokesperson of the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta said in a statement that the company appreciated Trump’s enthusiasm and promised that more information about new offerings within its products would be shared soon.
Coca-Cola did not expand. But the company has proclaimed American fans for a long time by importing Mexican Coke glass bottles since 2005.
By returning to Chinese in American production, meanwhile, corn can affect farmers, whose yield is used in artificial sweeteners.
John Bode, president and CEO of the Corn Refiners Association, said in a statement, “Not understanding the high fructose corn syrup with sugarcane sugar.” “President Trump stands to reduce American manufacturing jobs, American farmers and trade deficit. Thousands of American food manufacturing jobs instead of high fructose corn syrup with sugarcane sugar will promote the income of farm and promote foreign sugar imports, not all will benefit.”
Trump himself is a fan of diet coke which he had red button It was installed at the resolute desk in the oval office that he could press a White House Butler to bring him one for him.
Despite his hobbies for diet coke, his relationship with the company has not always been sweet.
In a series of posts in 2012, Trump suggested that the diet soda may eventually be associated with weight gain before writing, “Coca -Cola Company is not happy with me – that’s fine, I’ll still drink that waste.”
A bottle of diet coke can be seen sitting next to his chair, at a G20 summit in 2017. And the New York Times told in 2018 that he was drinking a dozen diets of coke daily.
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In Detroit, Associated Press Writer D-N Durbin and Josh Phan in Omaha, Nebraska contributed to the story.
Will WearT, Associated Press