Trump said Coca-Cola will use real sugar in its U.S. flagship drink. The company has not confirmed

Washington (AP) – Making American Coke great again?

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in U.S. flagship soft drinks in U.S. recommendations – although the company has not confirmed such a move.

Any switching of Coca-Cola’s high fructose corn syrup sold in the United States will make Coca-Cola more in line with its practice in other countries, including Mexico and Australia. But that won’t affect the drink Donald Trump’s choice of Diet Coke, which uses Aspartame as a calorie-free drink.

“I’ve been talking to Coca-Cola about using real cane sugar in American Cola, and they agree to do that,” Trump wrote on his social media website. “I want to thank all the people who are authoritative in Coca-Cola. It’s going to be a great move for them – you’ll see. It’s better!”

A spokesman for Atlanta-based Coca-Cola said in a statement that the company appreciated Trump’s enthusiasm and promised that it would soon share more details about new products in its products.

Coca-Cola is not exhaustive. However, since 2005, the company has long been importing Mexican Coke bottles to the United States, indulging fans of American sugar cane sugar in the United States.

Meanwhile, returning sugar in U.S. production may affect U.S. corn farmers whose yields are used for artificial sweeteners.

“It doesn’t make sense to replace high-fructose corn syrup with cane sugar,” John Bode, chairman and CEO of the Corn Refinery Association, said in a statement. “President Trump represents U.S. manufacturing, U.S. farmers, and to reduce the trade deficit. Replacing high-fructose corn syrup with cane sugar will result in thousands of jobs in the U.S. food manufacturing industry, lower farm incomes, and promote imports of foreign sugar, all without nutritional benefits.”

Trump himself is a fan of Diet Coke, so much so that he installed a red button on the decisive desk in the Oval Office that he could press his identity and let him bring him a White House Butler to him.

Although he likes to eat Coke, his relationship with the company is not always sweet.

In a series of posts in 2012, Trump suggested that diet soda might be related to weight gain, and then ended up writing: “Coca-Cola is not happy with me – it’s OK, I’ll still keep drinking that trash.”

A few years later, beside his chair, a bottle of diet coke can be seen sitting at the 2017 G20 summit. In 2018, the New York Times reported that he was drinking twelve diets every day.

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