Coca-Cola keen for Trump to know it's an all-American

The global brand is highlighting its top executive is an American citizen 

Henrique Braun, the chief operating officer of Coca-Cola. Picture: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Coca-Cola's advertising has long made clear that its flagship product is “the Real Thing". Now, the beverage giant wants you to know that its new chief is a real American.

In Wednesday’s press release announcing that Henrique Braun would succeed James Quincey as the company’s top executive, Coca-Cola said Braun “is an American citizen who was born in California and raised in Brazil".