Coca-Cola CEO gifts Trump commemorative Diet Coke bottle; highlights company’s economic contributions. Limited bottles for inauguration events planned.

Coca-Cola Company chairman and CEO James Quincey presented President-elect Donald Trump with a commemorative bottle of Diet Coke ahead of his inauguration.

Trump’s preference for Diet Coke is widely known.

According to a Coca-Cola spokesperson, this gift reflects the company’s tradition of creating special bottles for U.S. presidential inaugurations since 2005. Quincey also highlighted Coca-Cola’s economic contributions during the meeting.

The commemorative bottle is noted as the first-ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke bottle.

Coca-Cola, with over 60 bottling partners, generates $58 billion in U.S. economic activity and supports 860,000 jobs each year, which Quincey emphasised as part of their commitment to the nation’s economic future.

The Trump team was contacted for a statement, but no response was received.

Coca-Cola has indicated that a limited number of these Diet Coke bottles will be distributed during inauguration events, but they will not be available for public sale.

In a past article from The New York Times, it was suggested that Trump consumes up to a dozen Diet Cokes daily.

Trump has previously tweeted about his relationship with Diet Coke, notably stating in 2012 that he had “never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke,” while later expressing a lack of concern about Coca-Cola’s opinion on his commentary regarding their product.