Dr. Mehmet Oz, who Donald Trump appointed as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said that Trump believes that “freshly squeezed” Fanta can kill cancer cells, and that’s why he drinks so much of it.

“He’ll first start off with candy bars – that little candy jar, he’ll call it,” Oz explained on Donald Trump Jr’s podcast, Triggered. “He’ll hit the red button. And then comes the diet soda pop, which your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass if poured on grass, so therefore it must kill cancer cells in the body.”

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Trump Jr shrugged and laughed like it was just a sign of how quirky his dad is.

“I’m not even going to argue this right now,” Oz, who happens to be a real doctor, said. “You know, we were on Air Force One the other day, and I walk in there because he wants to talk about something, and he’s got an orange soft drink on his desk, he’s got Fanta on his desk. And I say, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

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“So he starts to sheepishly grin. He goes, ‘You know, this stuff is good for me. It kills cancer cells.’ And then he tells me, ‘It’s fresh-squeezed. So how bad could it be for you?’”

“Maybe he is on to something!” Trump Jr. exclaimed.