- Ronny Jackson says he encouraged president to eat vegetables
- ‘The exercise stuff never took off as much as I wanted it to’
A former White House physician who memorably said
Donald Trump might have lived to 327 if he had improved his junk-food heavy diet has confessed to sneaking cauliflower into the president’s mashed potatoes.
He served three presidents but his star rose under Trump after he told the press in January
Trump nominated Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs but the doctor withdrew amid controversy about his qualifications for the role and alleged behavior in his White House. He denied accusations including drunkenness and questionable dispensing practices. Speaking to the Times, Jackson said he did not regret missing the chance to join Trump’s cabinet. He also said he had not called in favors from Trump in his campaign in Texas’s th district, a huge and safely Republican seat which contains the cities of Amarillo and Wichita Falls. “He had so much on his plate,” he said.
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