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Dulcinea

(10,041 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 02:00 PM Sunday

Male shoe anxiety hits the Oval Office

(CNN) -snip- President Donald Trump has taken to giving the male officials around him new shoes, the Wall Street Journal reported this week — specifically, mid-priced Florsheim oxfords, ordered on the spur of the moment and then faithfully worn by the recipients.

But the presidentially approved footwear seen on Rubio and Vance, said the longtime menswear expert Josh Peskowitz, is “clearly too big.”

The Journal reported that, in Vance’s account, he, Rubio and an unnamed fellow politician specifically gave the president their shoe sizes: 13, 11.5 and 7, respectively. “You can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size,” Vance quoted Trump as saying.

What you can’t tell from a man’s shoe size — especially from his declared shoe size — is whether his shoes will fit. Despite the neatly marked mechanical precision of the Brannock device, male shoe sizes have a phantasmic quality, as inconsistent product sizing and varied expectations about comfort collide with men’s vanity and anatomical folklore.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/style/rubio-vance-big-shoes-florsheim-cec

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Male shoe anxiety hits the Oval Office (Original Post) Dulcinea Sunday OP
;-{)............. Goonch Sunday #1
I have some steel-toe Carhartts. Girard442 Sunday #4
If only kacekwl Sunday #5
And you may ask yourself , well how did I get here ? dweller Sunday #2
Marco Shoebio... yorkster Sunday #3
If you must appease Trump, just buy the shoes in the correct size ... Intractable Sunday #6
If Donny ordered them to jump off a cliff, would they do it? Hmmm. tanyev Sunday #7
Give it time. Dulcinea Monday #9
so they're being issued more than just knee pads Skittles Monday #8

Intractable

(2,020 posts)
6. If you must appease Trump, just buy the shoes in the correct size ...
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 04:13 PM
Sunday

and tell Trump how awesome he is for guessing it right.

This isn't difficult!

Dulcinea

(10,041 posts)
9. Give it time.
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 06:25 AM
Monday

They'll all be expected to take the fall for the Fascist Felon when this war blows up in his face, as I suspect it will.

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