Donald Trump’s diet habits are bizarre enough on their own, but Dr. Mehmet Oz just added a line that sounds almost too strange to be real. According to Oz, Trump has argued that diet soda is actually good for him because if it can kill grass, it must be able to kill cancer cells too. The remark came during a podcast chat with Donald Trump Jr., and it instantly gave people one more surreal image to add to the long list of Trump food stories.
Oz said the comment came up during meetings he and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended with the president. “Then comes the diet soda pops,” Oz said, before claiming Trump’s logic was that diet soda must be useful inside the body if it can wipe out grass when poured on it. It only got stranger from there.
Dr. Oz Says Trump Has a Very Unusual Theory About Soda
Oz also recalled spotting an orange soda on Trump’s desk aboard Air Force One and reacting with disbelief. He said Trump gave him a sheepish grin and doubled down on the idea that the drink was somehow helping him. According to Oz, Trump even joked that Fanta Orange could not be bad for him because it was “fresh-squeezed.”
That detail is what makes the whole thing stick. It is not just that Trump drinks soda. It is that, at least in Oz’s retelling, he talks about it with the kind of logic that sounds half serious, half trolling, and very much designed to leave people wondering whether he actually believes it.
Trump Jr. Turned the Moment Into a Health Flex
Instead of pushing back, Donald Trump Jr. leaned into the story and used it to praise his father’s energy. He said not many men close to 80 have Trump’s stamina, recall, and pace, while admitting it probably should not become public policy. Oz followed that up by saying Trump’s health numbers were unusually strong, even claiming his testosterone was “through the roof.”
Trump Jr. also painted a very familiar picture of his father’s eating habits, saying he eats like a “blue-collar American” and mentioning Big Macs and fries as part of the routine. That fit neatly into the broader image Trump has spent years projecting: fast food, soda, no interest in elite wellness culture, and total confidence that he is doing just fine anyway.
That is what gives this story its pull. It is part health claim, part joke, part political branding exercise. Whether readers see it as funny, absurd, or alarming probably depends on how much Trump they can already tolerate. But either way, the idea of diet soda as an anti-cancer strategy is now out there, and that is not the kind of quote people forget quickly.
