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Secretary of State Marco Rubio can barely stomach the Trump administration's wellness obsession.

Appearing on the Katie Miller podcast this week — hosted by the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller — alongside his own wife, Jeanette, Rubio torched the carnivore-and-fermented regimen pushed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the face of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement.

Kennedy has bragged that he eats almost nothing but "meat and ferments," a diet loaded with red meat and sauerkraut, which he credits for shedding 20 pounds in 20 days.

Rubio took a different view of the fad diet.

"I'm not gonna travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut," he said, marveling that Kennedy reportedly lugs the fermented cabbage everywhere he goes. "It's ridiculous. I can't do it. It's not sustainable."

Even so, the secretary quickly insisted he supports the MAHA push and wants Americans to be healthy — he's just not living it himself. Vice President JD Vance had flagged his infamous sweet tooth, and Jeanette happily confirmed her husband's weakness for ice cream, sugar and fast food.

Rubio's real allegiance: a breakfast pastry.

"The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world," he declared, gushing over its foil pack and 30-second prep. He took issue with his wife's report that he eats them regularly.

When Rubio tried to claim he was "MAHA," Jeanette was having none of it.

"No he is not," she said, cutting him off. "He is completely not."

When asked, "What does he eat?" she immediately replied, "Pop-Tarts! You eat sweets!"

Rubio was no kinder to keto, another diet with fans in Kennedy's orbit. Rubio said a stab at the no-sugar plan years ago sent him into such brutal withdrawal that, had he attempted it as America's top diplomat, he might have urged Trump to "bomb Paraguay" for no reason.

The jabs come as Kennedy doubles down on his food crusade, recently launching a cooking show critics savaged.

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An Australian TMZ reporter confronted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) outside a Senate hearing Thursday, challenging him to explain how punishing someone for using the Fifth Amendment could be constitutional.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had just voted 8-5 along party lines to hold former top federal health official Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for invoking his Fifth Amendment right 111 times at a hearing last week. TMZ reporter Charlie Cotton caught Scott in the hallway immediately after.

"Now maybe I'm just, like, not in the know because I'm Australian," Cotton said to Scott, "but how can you hold someone in contempt and punish someone for using a constitutional right? Isn't it there to use as a right?"

Scott argued Fauci had no grounds to use it.

"He had a pardon, so he — he didn't have that right to do that once he had the pardon," the senator said.

"But didn't he have risk of prosecution because if he'd misspoke, or if he'd lied or something?" Cotton pressed.

"Yeah, if he lied," Scott admitted.

"So he was at risk?" Cotton pointed out.

"He didn't have the right," Scott insisted.

"But not from the hearing," Cotton said, "because the hearing — if he lied, you said that he could be held, you know, accountable for that."

"He could've just told the truth," Scott said. "That's all he had to do."

"Well, he felt like it was a witch hunt," Cotton pushed back, "and you guys would stop at nothing to catch him and send him to prison."

"That's not my intention," Scott said. "I just want to get information."

"It's Rand Paul's intention, though," Cotton pressed.

"No," Scott said. "It's for his actions."

As Cotton was asking his next question, the Republican senator quickly walked away.

"Yep. Okay then," the TMZ reporter said.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek that invoking the Fifth was "the right legal move" — the pardon covered past conduct, but pleading the Fifth protected Fauci from perjury charges based on anything he said at the hearing.

As CEO of Columbia/HCA, Scott himself invoked the Fifth Amendment 75 times in a 2000 civil deposition while the company faced a federal investigation that led to a $1.7 billion settlement — at the time the largest Medicare fraud case in American history, Florida Phoenix reported.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) planned to hand-deliver the contempt referral to the Justice Department Thursday, bypassing a full Senate floor vote, CBS News reported.