However, what Trump neglected to mention in his post is that the country most closely associated with the tastier Coke is one of his most frequent scapegoats: Mexico. “Mexican Coke” is made with real sugar, a distinction which has been maintained by an ongoing trade war over sugar between the U.S. and Mexico that predates Trump’s tariff tantrums.

Donald Trump said Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar in the production of the company’s signature beverage, in what would represent a major shift from its use of high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in the US.