Dunkin Donuts is a national chain, beloved by all Americans. But don’t tell that to Massachusetts, the state where Dunkin Donuts was founded. They consider Dunkin Donuts a regional delicacy, a way of life. a central part of their cultural identity and a significant part of their heritage. Bostonians literally threw the first bricks of America’s independence from those tea-drinking colonizers. And now, on the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence, Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to go to war with Dunkin Donuts. One if by land, two if by sea… and we’re talking about Dunkin’s Iced Signature Latte.
As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ticked through a list of ways the Trump administration is trying to clean up the nation’s food supply before an appreciative Texas crowd last week, he previewed more to come, including potentially pulling certain ingredients from the market if they can’t be proven safe. And then he singled out a Massachusetts staple.
“We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s OK for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,’” Kennedy told the applauding audience. “I don’t think they’re gonna be able to do it.”
It’s unclear if the administration will follow through on such demands and restrict sugary beverages at Dunkin’ and similar chains, despite Kennedy’s declarative comments at the Austin food-focused event, organized by an outside political group that supports his agenda. The Health and Human Services Department did not respond to a request for further explanation. The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets, a popular initiative the administration has recently played up instead of his unpopular overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule.
Look, I think those sugary coffee drinks are unhealthy too, but the American economy is fueled solely by proud and tired Americans buying themselves little treats like a pick-me-up from Dunkin Donuts. That’s the essence of capitalism – everyone has the right to buy a sugary, caffeinated treat for themselves to get through this fiery hellscape one day at a time. I also find it galling that sugar and caffeine are the last two legal crutches for the average man and woman, and these psychos are trying to take that away too. So much for pro-business Republicans! All I know is that if a Democrat tried to take away people’s right to sugary caffeinated beverages, the GOP would do another January 6th.
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- Los Angeles, CA – Ben Affleck grabs some packages that were delivered to his house while sipping on his morning coffee. Pictured: Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 23 JANUARY 2021 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Los Angeles, CA – Ben Affleck is back at it starring and producing a new Dunkin Donuts commercial in Los Angeles, this time collaborating with fellow Dunkin fan, Charli D’Amelio. In the spot, Ben has his hands full with stacks of boxes of Dunkin Donuts which at one point topple out of his hands to the ground. He comes to the door wearing a t-shirt that say Day Ones and a childhood photo of him and best buddy Matt Damon on it. Later in the day, special guest Charli D’Amelio arrives drinking her famous drink. Ben greets her at the door and gives her a big hug before inviting her inside. Charli, who recently said she didn’t know who Ben Affleck was despite their mutal love for Dunkin, declared that she is a bigger fan and her collab is superior. Guess we will have to wait and see the commercial to find out who the biggest fan truly is. Pictured: Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 4 JANUARY 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Los Angeles, CA – “Ben Affleck seen with a Dunkin’ “DunKings” tracksuit in Los Angeles, sparking speculation about the return of his campaign with the brand.” Last year the actor teamed up with Boston buddies, Matt Damon and Tom Brady for a hilarious commercial for the brand and the year before that was his memorable drive thru moment with then wife Jennifer Lopez. So is there another surprise guest this year? Pictured: Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 29 JANUARY 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- US President Donald J Trump makes remarks on the India-Pakistan cease-fire, the new US-China Trade Deal, the return of Eden Alexander from Hamas captivity and the high cost of prescription drugs before signing an executive order that he promises will lower the cost of those prescription drugs almost immediately, during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US Featuring: Robert F Kennedy Jr Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 12 May 2025 Credit: Chris Kleponis/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr testifies before the US Senate Committee on Finance on “The President’s 2026 Health Care Agenda” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Featuring: Robert F Kennedy Jr Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 04 Sep 2025 Credit: Andrew Thomas/CNP/INSTARimages
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- United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr testifies before the US Senate Committee on Finance on “The President’s 2026 Health Care Agenda” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Featuring: Robert F Kennedy Jr Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 04 Sep 2025 Credit: Andrew Thomas/CNP/INSTARimages
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- United States President Donald Trump announces an Executive Order creating the ‘Great American Recovery Initiative’ to tackle drug addiction in the Oval Office of the White House Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 29 Jan 2026 Credit: Aaron Schwartz/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- World premiere of Amazon MGM Studios’ film ‘Melania’ at the Trump-Kennedy Center Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Where: Washington, District Of Columbia, United States When: 29 Jan 2026 Credit: mpi34/MediaPunch/INSTARimages
Party of small government and individual freedom, amirite?
They dragged Michelle Obama relentlessly for promoting healthy school lunches.
It’s unbelievable.
Dunkin’ couldn’t ask for better press. This slime ball has zero credibility.
Film at 11: Bay Staters reenact historic party by tossing RFK Jr, not tea, into Boston Harbor.
Please, the harbor is finally clean enough that more varied sea life is returning. Let’s not pollute it with him. Toss him into the fountains at Mar a Lago
Or the Potomac.
Thank you, Deer Island!
Who told the Boston Globe that his diet initiative is popular? I wouldn’t take any health advice from this freak no matter what he said. He admitted to snorting coke off of toilet seats so…
“beloved by all Americans” ???? 🤮
I haven’t touched that diabetes machine in decades but in college there was many a day that Dunkin got me through. Back then they had these coffee frappe things that were magic.
Yeah, I can’t drink any of those drinks at Starbucks, we’re too rural for Dunkin, cuz they give me a ginormous headache but I’d never dream of taking them away from anyone who enjoys them.
He’s awfully quiet about the data that says frequent use of a tanning bed increases the risk for skin cancer, though…
😂
And makes your skin look like the leather of a twenty year old catcher’s mitt.
Not long ago, RFK jr was asked his recommendations for those struggling with their grocery bills. He admitted that porterhouse steaks were expensive, but recommended cheaper cuts of beef, and liver. Liver. Last month we were told to go for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and one tortilla. This month it’s offal. With no latte chasers.
In a crazy coincidence, the day before he made his comments recommending people eat beef liver, I was looking through the grocery store app and couldn’t believe how expensive the liver was! I even said something to my partner, because it was shockingly expensive for….liver.
I don’t think there is any inexpensive beef out there.
Oh, so now this Administration is worried about the health of 15-year-old girls? We could come up with a lot of other ways to keep them healthy: stop trafficking; provide abortion care and contraception; vaccinate against HPV and other transmissible diseases; take guns away from men with a history of partner violence; stop promoting alcohol as a “social lubricant;” restore Medicaid for those who have lost access; fill in food deserts; provide nutritious meals at school; what am I missing?
It’s important to keep teenage girls healthy until they’re 18 in this crowd.
Unless you have a friend with a private island. Then age doesn’t matter 🤮
Well, at 18 they can get married and start popping out babies, as we know this administration wants. So maybe they do have a vested interest in the health of teenage girls as incubators.
Right? Th effing nerve of this dude…
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The emphasis on teen girls is MAGA’s gross obsession with white birth rates and the racist replacement theory. They have even gone to court arguing that a drop in teen pregnancy hurts republicans (the mifepristone case in Texas).
They want those girls reproducing and the emphasis here is how do the sugary drinks affect fertility.
Equal job opportunities and equal pay, actually prosecute sex offenders and fund police departments so they can run rape kits (this admin turns off that funding when it gets into office), equal funding of sports (again, the priority of this admin is to take up the cause of the poor men who are affected by Title IX), investigate and end gender discrimination (again, priority is for white men who are hurt by employers not being allowed to favor them anymore). I’m sure there are a ton more.
Yes WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE !! 🙌
We must protect teen girls from making their own decisions!
This is SO GROSS 🤢
that tracks. the heritage foundation is currently floating the idea of a 17,000 tax penalty for women who don’t get married or pop out babies before they’re 30. they ‘legally’ can’t stop women from attending higher education, which demographically indicates those women are less likely to have kids early and often. so we’ll be penalized for not being baby machines even though we’re less of a drain on the system then families with tons of kids. and only women being punished, not men, quelle surprise. i know this is a bit of a comment jack, but since rjk did single out teenage girls in his speech, i felt i needed to post it somewhere.
If you find Dr Paul Offit’s piece on cocaine and toilet seats, he explains why this was such a pathetic and ignorant statement. The toilet seat was not the problem– the cocaine was. Junior just revealed how normal it was for him to use cocaine–anywhere. He has no business around any aspect of Public Health or any kind of public responsibility. Dr Offit invented the rotovirus vaccine and is a top pediatric vaccine specialist.
Like they actually give a f–k about anybody’s health. What, do he and his pedophile friends have a “no fat chicks” rule?
Bingo
I also see misogyny in the comment. Why single out teen girls and coffee? Why not monster energy drinks or protein drinks that boys/men drink?
AMEN! so much american food and drink is absolutely bad for you, beyond sugar (to the point that we eat things that are literally illegal to sell to Europeans to consume bc the ingredients are so bad for you)
he’s trolling, trying to distract and rile people up.
Rotavirus, caught typo late
I remember when Republicans used to attack local politicians that introduced regulations to ban sugary drinks in schools etc. Now they’re worried about a 15 year old girl drinking an iced coffee. RFK jr being worried about what a 15 year old girl drinks is just weird to me.
Well MAGA needs to keep their future victim pool for their predatory assaults healthy.
Hasn’t his own family talked about Kennedy‘s cocaine and heroin addictions? As far as I know those substances are still illegal in the United States.
Among the many reasons Kennedy can STFU.
If this guy had to get elected in Massachusetts, my home state, though I’ve lived in the UK now nearly 2 decades, I’d wager he wouldn’t make it through a primary. As a Kennedy. Whooooof. Way to stoke the eternal flame, buddy. Meanwhile, Jack Schlossberg is actually looking like a potential candidate. Who knew……
Does this drug-adled moron not understand that people can ADD sugar to coffee?
😁. No, no he does not.
He’d rather those teen girls get trafficked, eat raw chicken, drink raw milk, and not get vaccinated.
Just a reminder that Brainworm believes in junk science that was debunked by real scientists decades ago – that Black people have a different physiology and therefore should be on a different vaccine schedule.
He’s not only a fucking idiot, he’s a virulent racist, which is of course why he’s in charge of health over there. They figured out that in addition to kidnapping people off the street, putting them in concentration camps, or trafficking them to El Salvador or another country, you can do irreperable harm and abuse POC through healthcare. There’s long history of this in the US and he’s happy to popularize it again.
I don’t know enough about RFK jr beyond various absolutely moronic health claims, and I don’t think he/they’re doing this for any normal customer’s benefit, but holy diabetes 115g in a single drink????? It feels like that should be absolutely illegal. The recommended daily limit in the UK is around 30-40g. DD are clearly just trying to keep people addicted to their products, fk anyone’s health lol.
Well def take some time to educate yourself about him—his own family defines him as a predatory monster.
He cheated on his wife so many times (kept a log with details) and allegedly played son,any mind games that she killed herself.
I believe there was a babysitter underage situation…
Sure those drinks are unhealthy but how about the McDonalds that the administration highlights?
As soon as Starbucks gives MAGA a “donation” they’ll move on to other shakedowns.
Keep in mind, little of what this administration says is true and this man, specifically, is full of it. There is very likely no drink with 115 g of sugar. He probably made that up. He’s been a conspiracy theorist longer than he’s been a politician.They exaggerate and lied to make their points. Welcome to the United States.
A large Coffee Coolata (which is probably the sweetest Dunkies beverage I can think of) has 86g – 98g of sugar in it which is obviously a lot. But I don’t know anyone who drinks those things every day just like I don’t know anyone who has a milkshake every day. It’s an occasional treat, not a daily thing like coffee.
Thoroughly recommend the series on him the Behind The B*stards podcast did (unless you really don’t like swearing – or stories about eating roadkill) as it explains what an absolute horrorshow of a human being he is.
Oklahoma has banned the use of SNAP benefits for candy and soft drinks. It’s only a matter of time before this horrible MAGA trend spreads elsewhere. It’s just sad, sometimes folks don’t have healthy alternatives to choose from.
Their plan has always been to kill the poor. After that they’ll come for all of us until the one percenters are the only ones left.
Whoever said that Repubs have launched a war on pleasure was spot on. Cruelty is the point and these mf’ers are determined to make as many Americans as miserable as they can (and as miserable as they apparently are). It’s also another distraction bc this admin keeps majorly screwing everything up.
While we’re at it, why don’t we ask for the ‘safety data that shows that it’s OK for a teenager to be allowed to have a automatic weapon with multiple rounds of bullets in it’ . I’ll wait.
This is beyond stupid. Is he going to make Hersheys & Nestles ‘prove’ their candy bars are OK to consume? And what’s the deal with monitoring the sugar intake of teenage girls???!?!?! Not concerned about boys? Not concerned about adults?
On the plus side, it keeps him away from our vaccines.
Emptying the Treasury and destroying the Earth behind a wall of lies and trivialities.
Yeah cause the last time a government tried to tell the people of Boston what they could drink or not drink that went well.
The Trump administrations’ obsession with teen girls continues *eye roll*