Why Trump Prefers the Silver Diet Coke Over Red Coke Zero
Creatrip Team
4 months ago
During his visit to Korea for the APEC summit, President Donald Trump brought his preferred soda: Diet Coke (a zero-sugar cola launched in 1982). Known as Coca‑Cola Light in some markets (a Korean name: 코카콜라 라이트), Diet Coke uses aspartame and offers a lighter, crisper sweetness compared with Coca‑Cola Zero, which blends aspartame and acesulfame potassium for a fuller sweetness. Diet Coke was born from Coca‑Cola’s secret “Project Harvard” to create a low‑calorie cola and became one of the first mainstream diet sodas in the U.S. It quickly rose in sales through celebrity-driven marketing and became a cultural icon, especially for the Baby Boomer generation—its fans have included figures like Elton John and Warren Buffett. In the U.S. Diet Coke remains uniquely popular (Trump reportedly drinks many cans daily and even has a Diet Coke button in the Oval Office), whereas Coke Zero is more recognized in overseas markets. Today Diet Coke evokes nostalgia for the 1980s–1990s lifestyle it once symbolized.
