Cassidy Hutchinson reveals famously germ-averse Trump’s greatest fear
October 05, 2023 03:26 PM
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Donald Trump‘s White House chief of staff, revealed one of the former president’s greatest fears.
Hutchinson told Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night talk show Wednesday that Trump not only fears germs from shaking hands but is also terrified of being poisoned.
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“Donald Trump has a — I don’t know if you know this … I don’t know, maybe people know, but he does have a very potent fear of being poisoned and this fear leads him to be picky about his food,” she said. “He does have a very potent fear of being poisoned. So he uses and prefers the small Heinz glass ketchup bottles because he likes to hear his valet or whoever’s serving him his meal, he likes to hear the ‘pop.’”
Kimmel took a jab at Trump, saying “his hands were so little, it would seem like a real ketchup bottle.”
The tale about Trump’s food preferences wasn’t the first ketchup-related incident Hutchinson has told the country.
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Her bombshell testimony before the Jan. 6 committee in June last year included a vivid picture of a furious Trump throwing dishes and leaving ketchup dripping down the White House dining room’s walls after a tense meeting with then-Attorney General William Barr.
“[The valet] motioned for me to come in [to the dining room] and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantel on the TV, and I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there’s a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” she told the committee. “The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the attorney general’s AP interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall.”