Coke puts his lips perfectly on Trump’s promise to make American cola with real sugar again.

president Donald Trump I said it on Wednesday coca cola At his suggestion, he agreed to use real cane sugar in his US flagship soft drink, but the company did not confirm such a move.

Switches from high fructose corn syrup of coke sold in the US are coca cola More to practice in other countries, including Mexico and Australia. But that doesn’t affect Diet Coke, which uses aspartame as a drink of Trump’s choice, as a calorie-free drink.

“I’m talking coca cola Trump wrote on a social media site. This will be a very good move by them – you will see. That’s just right! ”

A spokesman for Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. said in a statement that the company appreciated Trump’s enthusiasm and promised that details of the new product within its product will soon be shared.

Coca-Cola did not elaborate. However, since 2005, the company has long indulged in US sugar cane fans by importing glass bottles of Mexican coke into the United States.

Meanwhile, returning to sugar in US production could affect corn farmers in countries where yields from artificial sweeteners are used.

“It’s pointless to replace fructose corn syrup with cane sugar,” John Bord, president and CEO of the Corn Refiners Association, said in a statement. “President Trump represents a decline in American manufacturing jobs, American farmers, and trade deficits. Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar will reduce thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, farm incomes, and increase imports of foreign sugars with no nutritional benefits.”

Trump himself is a fan of Diet Cola, so he Red button It will be installed in the Resolute Desk in the oval office and will bring one for him to the butler of the White House.

Despite his love for Diet Coke, his relationship with the company has not always been sweet.

In a series of posts in 2012, Trump suggested that diet soda could lead to weight gain and then finally said, “The Coca-Cola Company isn’t happy with me. That’s fine, I’ll still be drinking that trash.”

At the 2017 G20 Summit, a few years later I saw a bottle of diet coke sitting next to his chair. In 2018, the New York Times reported that he drinks dozens of diet cokes every day.

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Detroit Associated Press writer Dee-Ann Durbin and Josh Funk of Omaha, Nebraska contributed to the story.