Secretary of State Marco Rubio is being ridiculed after a silly fashion report revealed that President Donald Trump loves to guess people's shoe sizes and buy them a pair of loafers (around $145). Such was the case with Rubio, whom Trump guessed was one size when the reality was clearly something much smaller.
The report prompted mockery about Trump's priorities and jokes about the size of the man's feet.
Photos of Rubio at the recent "Shield of the Americas" meeting revealed his right shoe had quite a gap at the back.
As one observer wrote, the problem doesn't appear to be unique for Rubio.
"Oh. My. God. He makes ALL of the men in his cabinet wear these Florsheim Oxfords? And none of them fit?" said DNC Youth Council member Matt Royer.
Royer was responding to a post on X from the Turkish account "The Clash Report," who wrote on X, "Trump has been buying $145 Florsheim dress shoes for allies, using the gifts as a lighthearted way to encourage loyalty and unity within his circle."
The problem, as the article noted, is that Trump guesses their size instead of getting the actual size, and it appears no one corrects him.
Vice President JD Vance recalled, “The president kind of leans back in his chair and says, ‘You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.'”
"Guys the shoe thing is as close to seeing someone get professionally humiliated in public as you are likely to see," said one poster on BlueSky. "Imagine being Marco Rubio and wearing those shoes while you order the U.S. military to kill people. Just the most degenerate fetish s—— you can imagine. J. Edgar Hoover was vanilla compared to these f—— freaks."
Female staffers laughed about the men's problems and noted that at least one official was annoyed he had to wear Trump's shoes instead of his preference, which cost over $1,000.
One photo showed Rubio and Vance seated on the Oval Office sofa, and both men appeared to be wearing shoes that were too large for them.
It was difficult to see Secretary Pete Hegseth's shoes in the photo despite his suit pants riding up nearly to his knees.
"Imagine being such a brown-noser that you wear a shoe two sizes bigger than your foot just to please your boss. And the worst part: a really trashy shoe," another person commented.
UnDiplomatic Podcast host Matt Duss called it "somehow even more humiliating than a bunny costume." It's a reference to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who dressed in the Easter Bunny costume during Trump's first term
"How does this differ from the court of some Caligula, Heliogabalus, Nero?" asked New Left chair Anna-Maria Żukowska of Poland.
"Trump has begun dressing his Cabinet like Ken Dolls," quipped Kathleen Tyson, global liquidity "plumbr" and former central banker.