What Did Donald Trump Eat in India, and When Did He Eat It? – Vanity Fair

Here on this website, we ask a lot of questions. Usually theyre questions about people of means and fame and power and the situations they get into. We try to glean from these peoples business some sort of lesson that us non-stars can use. So we ask questions like, why? Also, what for? And how?

But sometimes, we dont have to because others do that work for us. So here now from the Daily Mail, a question: Did he try the goat? Donald Trump ate NOTHING from a vegetarian menu at first stop in Indian visit and was presented with challenging choices at beef-free state dinner.

Yes, did the president try the raan ali-shan on his 36-hour trip to India, where he met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a strict vegetarian, several times, usually over a banquet of food? Trump didnt eat the vegetables, according to the Washington Post. But did he eat the meat? What did he eat and when did he eat it?

Whats the big deal? you, a person who understands boundaries and never logs on except for right now for some reason, asks. The big deal is that this guy has a pretty exclusive relationship with beef. He loves steak and he loves it rock hard, baby. Hamburgers line his guts. Sometimes, he orders the meatloaf. A source close to Trump told CNN prior to this trip, I have never seen him eat a vegetable.

Folks like the presidents son Eric calls the general outcry over whats in daddys mouth a sign of liberal overreach into personal lives. Who cares what the guy eats? Mind your own arteries! To others, Trumps lack of curiosity speaks to a larger lack of curiosity for the world and the people in it. Both arguments are fairly compelling, but there is something undeniably disconcerting about a grown man who wont eat his vegetables no matter how many airplane noises you make on the forks way to his sloppy, wet maw. Plus, one hopes a president would take care of his mind and body, since he works for the people. One hopes, too, that he wouldnt offend by, say, yucking New Delhis yum.

Curiously, for one luncheon, per the menu posted online, the chef changed the traditional samosa to one filled with broccoli. As Jaya Saxena of Eater said, Given that one of the most traditional fillings for samosas is potato, its not like the hotel needed to find a new vegetarian option, especially considering that fried potatoes are in fact a favorite of nonadventurous eaters in the White House and beyond. Clearly, this is a move to ensure the president spends his entire time in the country suffering from cruciferous farts. I suppose the president routed them on this one, though. He did not try it, reportedly.

So the next issue is goat, which is a meat. Trump likes meat but does he like goat? Unfortunately, we dont know. Journalists werent allowed in the state dinner, so there are no well-observed accounts about what he ate like hes some ingenue on the occasion of her first big profile.

So I guess were left with a big blackout. The lights went out at the opportune moment. No one else was in the room where it happened (it being whether or not the president ate a dish). So what now? Whats the lesson we can take from nothing? Maybe in the dearth of the knowable, theres hope for the best. We can dream a dream that he tried every dish and remarked kindly on it with a little self-deprecation, and asked a question or two about it. Then they moved on to discussing, I dont know, arms deals or whatever those two were up to. Also, maybe, the lesson is that it doesnt matter what the president did or didnt do. You can try the goat. Youll probably like it.