Michelle Obama Slams Trump’s Loosened Regulations for School Lunches

It is clear Michelle Obama is unhappy with the new school lunch standards initiated by Donald Trump which counteract her goal of providing children with healthy meals.

When the former first lady attended a public health summit in Washington D.C. on Friday, she slammed the Trump administration’s decision to partially roll back rules she championed as part of her healthy eating initiative.

“Think about why someone is OK with your kids eating crap,” Obama said. “Why would you celebrate that? Why would you sit idly and be OK with that? Because here’s the secret: If someone is doing that, they don’t care about your kid.”

Under changes to federal nutrition standards, children’s school lunches won’t have to follow the health parameters Obama strived for.

“No one should play politics with our kids’ health,” Obama tweeted Friday.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced earlier in May that schools would no longer have to comply with the lunch standards set in place by the Obama administration. The rules aimed to reduce sodium intake, provide whole-grain bread and pasta and fat-free milk.

He claims some aspects of the standards had “gone too far” and children didn’t like their lunches.

“That to me is one of the most ridiculous things that we talk about in this movement — ‘the kids aren’t happy,’” Obama said. “Well, you know what? Kids don’t like math either. What are we gonna do, stop teaching math?”

During the health summit, Obama didn’t even have to mention Trump’s name in order to throw his loosened regulations under the bus.

“We gotta make sure we don’t let anybody take us back,” she said. “This is where you really have to look at motives, you know. You have to stop and think, why don’t you want our kids to have good food at school? What is wrong with you? And why is that a partisan issue? Why would that be political? What is going on?

She discussed the harsh consequences of allowing the government’s low standards for the food winding up in children’s cafeterias.

“You take your eye off the ball on things, you let other people determine what you’re eating, what you’re feeding, how you’re moving—and before you know it your kids have type 2 diabetes and you’re confused and shocked and hurt,” she said.

Featured Image via Flickr/U.S. Department of Agriculture