DONALD Trump won’t be able to run for president again if he doesn’t improve his health and diet, one of his top allies has said.

Rev. Franklin Graham, the president of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and an early supporter to the former president, said he was unsure if Trump’s health would permit another campaign.

Speaking to Axios on HBO, Graham said: "I think for him, everything will depend on his health at that time.

“If he still has energy and strength like he does.”

"You know the guy does not eat well, you know, and it's amazing the energy that he has," Graham added. 

Graham went on to say the former president’s reported weight loss could pave the way for another campaign.

"He's lost weight, fifteen pounds, Maybe. So he might be in good health and in good shape. I don't know."

A long-time supporter of Trump, Graham praised his term in office following his November election loss to President Biden.

In a statement on Facebook, he said he was “grateful to God” for Trump’s four years.

"He gave us a president who protected our religious liberties; grateful for a president who defended the lives of the unborn, standing publicly against abortion and the bloody smear it has made on our nation; grateful for a president who nominated conservative judges to the Supreme Court and to our federal courts,” Graham wrote. 

“President Trump will go down in history as one of the great presidents of our nation, bringing peace and prosperity to millions here in the U.S. and around the world.”

Trump has been known to struggle with his weight.

In January 2018 White House physician Ronnie Jackson said Trump, who is 6ft 3in and weighs 239 pounds, does not partake in exercise "as part of his routine".

Mystery has always surrounded why the billionaire Donald Trump – dubbed the "Fast Food President" – tucks in to so much cheap fast food.

In February last year, it emerged that it may be down to Trump's germophobia as he mostly eats takeouts from chain restaurants because he believes them to be clean.

According to CNN, White House chefs were instructed to limit the fat and calories in the president's meals, including swapping his favourite ketchup-slathered, well-done steak for Dover sole.

A person familiar with his diet change also told CNN that vegetables "have begun appearing on his plate, though it's not clear how much of them he is eating".

Earlier this year it emerged that Joe Biden had scrapped Donald Trump's "Diet Coke button" from the Oval Office desk that allowed him to summon a butler to bring him iced soda.

The legendary button – reportedly used by past presidents for other needs – was not seen in photographs inside the White House Oval Office on Thursday.

Tom Newton Dunn, a political commentator at Times Radio, took to Twitter on Thursday morning to share the news.

Dunn tweeted: "President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button.

"When @ShippersUnbound and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we became fascinated by what the little red button did.

"Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. It's gone now."

White House insiders revealed in 2017 the number of Diet Coke cans Trump consumes in 24 hours.

Some close to him claimed the former president downs 12 cans of the fizzy, no-calorie drink every day.

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