Marco Rubio jokes he would ask Donald Trump to bomb Paraguay if he goes on a keto diet: ‘Just because I haven’t had any sugar’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he once tried a keto diet four to five years ago and it was a near-psychotic experience for him without any sugar and carbohydrates. In an interview with Katie Miller, Rubio’s wife spilled his love for sugar and divulged his diet while Rubio shared his experience with extreme diets. “And you just eat all this protein, and so you go through this massive withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates for the first 72 hours. It was a near-psychotic event for me,” Rubio said. His wife Jeanette agreed.“Like, if I did this in this job, I would be, ‘Mr President, we must bomb Paraguay’,” Rubio said. And when Trump would ask him the reason, he would say: “I don’t know, I’m just really mad; I haven’t had any sugar.”“So the point is that you can’t – it really is not as – I’m not against this diet. I’m not asking that we ban it. I encourage people to try it. I’m just saying it’s not for everyone. That’s what I’m saying,” Rubio said.Katie Miller asked Rubio whether he adopted health secretary RFK Jr’s diet of red meat and fermented vegetables. “No. No, this is a crazy diet. This is a – this is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat. Now, you understand, like, this is not a sustainable thing,” Rubio said.“But he has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut,” Rubio said, pointing out the difficulties of sustaining such a diet. Sauerkraut is finely cut raw white cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria. Miller asked Rubio whether he is for MAHA (Make America Healthy Again). “I’m in favor of MAHA. Like, I think people should be healthy,” he said.Jeanette Rubio contradicted and said that Rubio does not eat healthy at all and he is fond of Pop-Tarts, sweets and all fast food.
No ‘single typical day’ at the State Department
Rubio said sometimes he’ll wake up at 2.30 am to respond to a global crisis but some days are pretty straightforward in his commute from home to the State Department.“Although we’ve been pretty busy on the national security front because of Iran and before that other things, but there’s no single typical day. Typically weekends are just a little slower, obviously but — and then the president has an insane work schedule. Like, he works every day, all day. You guys know that, too. So he doesn’t really have, like, days off or vacation time. There is really no slow time when it comes to national, international affairs,” Rubio told Miller.“So no day is typical, but generally speaking, if I had to plan a day, I would start — I start here at the State Department in the mornings and then try to be over at the White House before or shortly after noon and when the president really gets humming. And then obviously, or sometimes in the mornings he does a lot of foreign leader calls, so I’m on a lot of those calls in the morning. Those are sometimes as early as 7 a.m.,” he added.
