{"id":1755635,"date":"2022-11-29T16:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755635"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:19:06","slug":"fact-check-do-historys-greatest-monsters-all-drink-diet-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-do-historys-greatest-monsters-all-drink-diet-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Do History\u2019s Greatest Monsters All Drink Diet Coke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-do-historys-greatest-monsters-all-drink-diet-coke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Add Elon Musk&#8217;s soda preferences to his ever-growing list of unforgivable sins.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter CEO on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597165510595989504?s=20&#038;t=X3VHGGGSnJLGxkmTRz5NdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared a photo<\/a> of his &#8220;bedside table,&#8221; which included among other items three cans of Caffeine Free Diet Coke. Journalists stopped whining about Musk ruining Twitter long enough to cover the revelation that the SpaceX founder drinks diet cola. <em>Gawker<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gawker.com\/celebrity\/caffeine-free-diet-coke-psychos-elon-musk-bedside-table-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> &#8220;Caffeine-free Diet Coke is for psychos&#8221; and &#8220;freaks and losers.&#8221; <em>Salon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-bedside-table-photo-caffeine-free-diet-coke.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocked<\/a> Musk as a &#8220;soft baby who can\u2019t handle the real stuff,&#8221; aka Coke Heavy.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the very serious journalists at the Bezos Post who delivered the death blow, gravely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2022\/11\/28\/elon-musk-diet-coke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noting that<\/a> Musk\u2019s affinity for Diet Coke puts him in league with the beverage\u2019s other &#8220;unsavory acolytes, including former president Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chilling stuff. But Musk and Trump aren\u2019t the only scoundrels known to sip this low-cal liquid evil. Here are five other degenerates known for their love of Diet Coke.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Gates and Warren Buffet with their Cokes (Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>When not drinking water made from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2015\/01\/10\/376182321\/bill-gates-raises-a-glass-to-and-of-water-made-from-poop#:~:text=the%20Gates%20Foundation-,Bill%20Gates%20takes%20a%20sip%20of%20water%20that%20came%20out,clean%20drinking%20water%20in%20minutes.&#038;text=In%20places%20where%20fresh%20water,get%20the%20water%20from%20poop.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human feces<\/a>, Musk\u2019s fellow tech billionaire drinks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/Books\/Making-the-Modern-World?WT.mc_id=06_13_2014_smila_tw&#038;WT.tsrc=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;three or four&#8221;<\/a> Diet Cokes a day and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3859158\/The-world-s-richest-man-doesn-t-expensive-tastes-Bill-Gates-eats-Big-Macs-lunch-demands-fridge-Diet-Coke-stays-hotels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly demands<\/a> &#8220;hotel rooms full of Diet Coke&#8221; when he travels. The Microsoft cofounder has been known to sip his favorite fizzy beverage while eating McDonald\u2019s cheeseburgers, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/10\/21\/bill-gates-should-be-ashamed-of-his-horrible-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surreptitiously delivered<\/a> to business meetings to avoid being scolded by his then-wife, Melinda. When he wasn&#8217;t deceiving his wife about his fast food consumption, the pair worked together to promote the notion that asking students to show their work in math class is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-behind-anti-racist-math-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diet Coke (Taylor&#8217;s Version) (Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s heartbreak heroine caused a scandal this month after Ticketmaster\u2019s promotion of her forthcoming tour left her legions of &#8220;Swifties&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/168988\/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-dynamic-pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the hook<\/a> for $22,000 tickets. But prior to profiting from a company that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has called &#8220;a monopoly,&#8221; Swift reportedly earned a cool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thethings.com\/how-taylor-swift-made-26-million-from-diet-coke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$26 million<\/a> endorsing Diet Coke. The <em>Valentine\u2019s Day <\/em>star also has a history of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-swift-george-soros-breakup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticizing<\/a> the liberal megadonor George Soros, which the media assure us is anti-Semitic. Obscenely wealthy and full of hate, it\u2019s no surprise Taylor loves Diet Coke.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Bill Clinton<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>President Trump wasn\u2019t the first commander in chief to imbibe aspartame in the Oval Office. Slick Willy was often seen guzzling from the iconic silver can, and even included one in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/11\/health\/diet-coke-trump-health-effects#:~:text=President%20Bill%20Clinton%20was%20frequently,at%20his%20official%20presidential%20library.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time capsule<\/a> buried at his presidential library.<\/p>\n<p>But Clinton\u2019s love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk and Trump aren\u2019t the only scoundrels known to sip this low-cal liquid evil. 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