Vanity Fair was torched for blaming MAGA for Americans choosing to have a more protein-fueled diet and making the ridiculous suggestion that only men, not women, care about protein.
The article was titled “Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein? Blame MAGA” by author Keziah Weir. In it, Weir calls out those in the “manosphere” led by President Donald Trump and supported by “influential podcast bros” like podcaster Joe Rogan and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement.
By 2015, psychologists were finding that the overconsumption of protein among men could constitute an eating disorder. Was it correlation, coincidence, or some lean-meat canary in the proverbial coal mine that it was into this proteinous landscape that Donald Trump—burger loving, locker
