Trump's Coca-Cola Demand Hit With a Reality Check
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Source: Daily Beast
Published Oct. 21 2025 1:01PM EDT
President Donald Trump may have launched a one-man nostalgia party over the nation’s favorite beverage but the sad truth is there might actually just not be enough of the good Coke to go around.
Amid the president’s demands that Coca-Cola return to using cane sugar in its iconic drink, the soda manufacturer’s Chief Financial Officer John Murphy told Bloomberg Tuesday that increased production of the original recipe has been stymied by the key ingredient’s only limited availability in the U.S. “It’s going to be a measured roll-out,” Murphy said. “There is only a certain amount of cane sugar available in the United States.”
Coca Cola largely stopped using cane or beet sugar to flavor its drink in the early 1980s amid a spike in prices due to import quotas and global market volatility, opting instead for corn syrup, readily available in the U.S., as a cheaper alternative.
Cane sugar continues to be used in Mexico, accounting for the growing success of “Mexican Coke” in the U.S., and in kosher versions of the drink rolled out during Passover, when the Jewish community avoids consuming foods containing corn or wheat, among other ingredients.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-donald-trumps-coca-cola-demand-hit-with-a-reality-check-amid-supply-chain-woes/
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It has to do with climate, growing season, soils, annual rainfalls, and cost of labor. If Chump were anything resembling a good businessman, or even a not-terrible businessman, he would have KNOWN THIS ALREADY!
But he doesn't know any of this, and here we are, debating these stupid tariffs because we have to IMPORT STUFF! Well yeah, of course we have to import these things because we can't grow them HERE!
(I would add cacao beans to this list, which is another C. I'm sure there are others.)
