Presidential Diet In This Week's "State of the Cartoonion".
TAPPER: Welcome back. Cheeseburgers were reportedly on the menu as President Trump and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer huddled at the White House Friday. A not so promising start to the president's new healthy eating plan. Perhaps the diet will begin when the government will reopen? That's the subject of this week's "State of the Cartoonion."</s>TAPPER (voice-over): President Trump needs to change his diet and exercise. Doctor's orders.</s>RONNY JACKSON, WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN: He's more enthusiastic about the diet part than the exercise part.</s>TAPPER: Where to begin for a president whose palate is not to discerning?</s>TRUMP: I love steak and hamburger and pasta and French fries. The Big Macs are great, the quarter pounder with cheese.</s>TAPPER: And whose exercise routine he says includes sweating at rallies.</s>TRUMP: A lot of times these rooms are very hot. Like saunas. And I guess that's a form of exercise.</s>TAPPER: Perhaps his presidential predecessors could provide some inspiration. Such as President Obama, a smoker, whose fear of his wife scared him straight. That's a tactic the White House physician thinks might work on President Trump as well.</s>JACKSON: Ivanka and Mrs. Trump are both proponents of, you know, eating healthier and exercising. So they'll be partners of mine in working this out.</s>TAPPER: Perhaps President Trump could be like former President Bill Clinton who would literally jog to McDonald's. Though since leaving the White House and having major heart surgery has become a vegan.</s>BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruits. No dairy, no meat of any kind. No chicken, turkey. I eat very little fish.</s>TAPPER: Trump actually unseated Bill Clinton this week to become the third heaviest president in American history. Behind Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft who some claim once got stuck in a bathtub. A fate the president needs to avoid.</s>JACKSON: I told the president that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old.</s>TRUMP: I'm never going to eat another Oreo again. Nobody's -- I'm serious.</s>TAPPER: The fate of dreamers is at the center of the fight that has now shut down the federal government. It's an issue that nearly 90 percent of Americans agree upon. So why is Congress not getting something done? That's next.