Former President Donald Trump was on Fox & Friends Friday morning and declared that cows were his favorite farm animal – along with a bizarre claim about Vice President Kamala Harris’s diabolical plans for his bovine buddies.
The ex-president does have a well-known habit of meandering into off-topic rants about birds and sharks and other critters, but Friday’s cow commentary (cowmentary?) wasn’t totally random. The Fox producers had collected questions from viewers and co-host Lawrence Jones cued up one from a six-year-old boy who lived on a farm in Massachusetts.
“Mr. President,” said Jones. “We got a fun one. We got a six-year-old from Massachusetts, and he wants to know about your favorite animal. Let’s watch.”
The boy, clad in a plaid shirt and jeans, did in fact say he was six and lived on a farm in Massachusetts. He asked Trump, “What is your favorite farm animal?”
“Favorite farm animal?” Steve Doocy repeated, as his co-hosts burst into laughter and commented that Trump “grew in the city.”
“Well, I’ll tell you what I love,” said Trump. “I love cows!”
“But if we go with Kamala,” he continued, mispronouncing the vice president’s name, “you won’t have any cows anymore, because we’re not allowed to — I don’t want to ruin this kid’s day. I love cows. I think they are so cute and so beautiful and so — according to Kamala, who is a radical left lunatic, you will not have any cows anymore. So we have to vote her out.”
It’s unclear if Trump has ever actually met a living cow. Searches of Google Images and the AP photo archives were unable to find any photographs of Trump with any individual example of Bos taurus, yielding no results other than those that were obviously AI-generated or protest artwork portraying Trump as the golden calf idol from the Bible’s Book of Exodus.
It has, however, been widely reported that the ex-president prefers his steaks well-done and doused with ketchup, which most food critics and mentally-competent adults with functioning tastebuds would argue is neither cute nor beautiful.
As Helen Rosner wrote for Eater in 2017, it’s “fine” if people like steak cooked well-done, but it does mean that you are ignoring “the urgings of your steakhouse chef, your well-intentioned server, your friends, your family, your critics, thousands of magazine articles, hundreds of cookbooks, and the entire collective wisdom of thousands of years of gastronomy, all of whom are saying Try it, you’ll like it.”
But for Trump, Rosner continued, “categorically rejecting external input can be catastrophic”:
It may just be steak, but it’s also everything: It’s a choice to silence experts who suggest a different path, to dismiss their course corrections, to reject the very premise that expertise outside his person can have value. A person who won’t eat his steak any doneness but well is a person who won’t entertain the notion that there could be a better way; a person who blankets the whole thing in ketchup (a condiment that adds back much of the moisture, sweetness, and flavor that the overcooking removed in the first place) is always going to fix his problems by making them worse. A person who refuses to try something better is a person who will never make things good.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.
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