Marco Rubio's clown shoes have people asking one question: Who bought them?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Photos of Secretary of State Marco Rubio wearing what appear to be comically oversized dress shoes are going viral.

As Rubio leaned over to say something to a man at the Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday, a photographer caught an unfortunate angle on his Florsheim shoe.

The rumor, fueled by a recent report that President Donald Trump enjoys publicly guessing aides’ shoe sizes before ordering them his preferred brand, has led commentators to joke that the ill-fitting shoes look less like a fashion choice and more like a loyalty test.

If the shoe doesn’t fit, wear it anyway

Images of the ill-fitting footwear started spreading online in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Close-ups show the back of one shoe coming far off Rubio’s heel in a way that you only tend to see on kids wearing big siblings’ hand-me-downs.

Link to tweet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marco-rubio-giant-shoes-people-195752428.html

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Republicans are a bunch of freaks.

[Skittles]

2. repuke women suck but

I seriously doubt they would put up with THIS shit

[OhioBlue]

3. Trump is humiliating him on purpose. It's part of his control thing.

It's probably also because in 2016 Marco made fun of Donald's small hands....

Trump is insinuating that Marco has small feet.

[Squaredeal]

9. Humiliation is a trait of dictators

[Midnight Writer]

15. I look forward to their next news conference where Trump orders Marco to do his Big Shoe Dance.

[sop]

4. Rubio looks almost as stupid wearing those big fucking shoes as he did chugging water during his SOTU response.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. What a Fugly Ucking pair of shoes

[sop]

11. Elevator shoes usually are.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Weird even if bunions, gout, or diabetes.

I mean weird. Those are thrift store fit.

[flvegan]

7. "Marco Rubio" and "clown shoes" is redundant. n/t

[spanone]

8. "HE KNEW MY SIZE!!!!"

[lapucelle]

10. 'Everyone's afraid not to wear them': Trump buys $145 shoes for his top men

‘Everyone’s afraid not to wear them’: Trump buys $145 shoes for his top men

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, JD Vance, the vice-president and Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, have all received a pair of Florsheim shoes in recent months. Others presented with the brand’s classic lace-ups include the Fox News host Sean Hannity, the senator Lindsey Graham and the Maga celebrity Tucker Carlson.

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“[Trump] goes out and grabs a catalogue. There happens to be another politician in the room … and he actually runs us through this incredible shoe catalogue. The president is gifting us with four pairs of shoes.

“He says, ‘Marco, what’s your shoe size?’ And Marco’s apparently an 11 and a half. He says, ‘JD, what’s your shoe size?’ My shoe size is 13.

“And he asks this politician, who I won’t embarrass, what his shoe size is, and he says, ‘seven’. The president, he kind of leans back in his chair and says, ‘You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.’”

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-florsheim-shoes-145-rubio-vance-t053k0r6r

[hatrack]

12. Maybe it's intended to counter the images of Trump's bloated cankles straining his uppers?

On average, a perfect fit!!

[tanyev]

13. Aww, did Daddy Trump let Liddle Marco try on a pair of his shoes?

[Traildogbob]

14. Trump estimates

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The cankle factor.

[Blues Heron]

16. This is not the hallmark of a healthy democracy. Not a shred of dignity among the lot of them

[czarjak]

17. Didn't Cubans flee oppression?

[Cha]

18. What? The Rubio Puppet never heard of

stuffing newspaper in the toe?

[DET]

19. He Looks Ridiculous

And the shoes look like plastic. So tacky.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

20. Lol