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‘Everybody’s Afraid Not to Wear Them’: Trump Guesses Shoe Sizes for Staff, Buys Them His Favourites
- On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was photographed wearing Florsheim oxfords about two sizes too large after The Wall Street Journal's Monday report on President Donald Trump's shoe obsession.
- According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump told Rubio and Vance 'Marco, JD, you guys have shitty shoes' during a December Oval Office meeting and ordered $145 Florsheim pairs, often guessing sizes.
- Menswear writer Derek Guy shared a January photo of Rubio embracing Chuck Schumer where his shoes look excessively large, and additional photos from a Mar-a-Lago wedding and a State Department meeting show a visible heel gap and slipping at the back.
- The images went viral, and social media users mocked Rubio after The Wall Street Journal report, while White House staffers said it's "hysterical because everybody's afraid not to wear them."
- The Wall Street Journal reported Trump has handed out Florsheim pairs to many aides, including Rubio, Vance, Hegseth, Duffy, and Carlson, with some receiving multiple pairs.
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Fashion is not usually a topic of conversation in Washington, a city so obsessed with politics and power as little interested in clothing as a vehicle of personal expression.This week, the exception came in the form of shoes with which the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is fascinated.
Donated shoes from US President Donald Trump have become the new uniform for male members of his administration. They wear them out of loyalty to the head of the White House, even though some have reluctantly had to put aside much more expensive pairs of shoes, notes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Those who receive the gift are afraid not to use them in the presence of the president, according to WSJ sources. More information: Trump gives the order to cut off all trade with Spain because "he is a terrible ally"
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