Trump's sweet tooth: He eats a 'good amount' of candy and likes pink Starbursts and Tootsie Rolls

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has a saccharine bony and his favorites are pinkish Starbursts and Tootsie Rolls,.

So said Karoline Leavitt, the White House property secretary, astatine a briefing Tuesday for the children of reporters who screen the White House. It was portion of a time of activities the White House organized arsenic it observed the yearly Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day event.

The Republican president and his wife, archetypal woman Melania Trump, besides held abstracted events of their own.

One kid asked Leavitt astir Trump's regular candy consumption. She characterized his intake arsenic a “good amount” and added that “he likes pinkish Starburst and Tootsie Rolls.”

A fewer questions touched connected medication policy, specified arsenic the authorities of the U.S.-Mexico borderline and what Trump is consenting to bash astir clime change.

But adjacent much questions were astir his favourite foods and they pb Leavitt to stock that Trump besides likes to devour a “big, beauteous steak,” crystal pick sundaes with cocoa condiment and immoderate toppings, and hamburgers and fries from McDonald's.

She appeared to beryllium stumped by a fewer of the inquiries, including astir the president's favourite shot subordinate and his favourite child. Trump has five big children.

“That is simply a precise arguable question and I'm not going to reply it," Leavitt said aft the laughter subsided. “I cognize helium loves each of his children precise much, and they're each large kids.”

Earlier Tuesday, the archetypal woman joined a fewer twelve children whose parents enactment successful the Executive Office of the President successful decorating woody American flags.

She utilized a glue instrumentality to connect 2 metallic glittery stars to her red, achromatic and bluish emblem aft she took her spot astatine 1 of 2 tables successful the Jaqueline Kennedy Garden connected the South Lawn. The archetypal woman admired the children's enactment and told respective that their creations were “beautiful.”

The president visited Capitol Hill aboriginal Tuesday to rally House Republican lawmakers astir a taxation cuts and spending measure helium wants Congress to pass. He'd been scheduled to person a nationalist lawsuit with children connected the South Lawn aft helium returned but the White House decided against property sum aft all.

An adjutant aboriginal shared connected societal media a clip of the president doing his creation successful beforehand of immoderate children extracurricular the southbound entranceway to the Executive Mansion.

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