Everything Marco Rubio Is Hiding in That Giant Gap at the Back of His Shoes

Trump foots (heh) the bill for the Florsheim shoes, buying them for all of the boys he deems special. (Shockingly, Vance did receive a pair.) “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,’” Vance told WSJ. Gross.

Rubio and Vance reportedly got their shoes in December, after a meeting where Trump got bored and pulled out his shoe catalog, more concerned with footwear than with anything else on the agenda. When asked for their sizes, Vance said 13, and Rubio—the poster child of Little Man Syndrome—said 11.5. 11.5, Marco? Really? 

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— derek guy (@dieworkwear) March 11, 2026

But Rubio definitely overestimated his size. (Happens!) In recent photos, in which Twitter’s favorite menswear guy, @dieworkwear, helpfully highlighted, you can clearly see the large gap in the heel, as if a kid had put on their dad’s shoes when he came home from work. Unfortunately, Rubio has no choice but to wear Daddy’s shoes, as a White House staff official told WSJ, “It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.” 

 

So here we are in the West Wing, where, for the last three months, poor Marco has been sloshing around in shoes that are clearly too big, an inch of empty space behind his heels just waiting for little bits and bobs to tumble in. Or…maybe he uses the gap as extra storage when his secret interior jacket pocket gets too full of secrets. Either way, here’s everything we believe Rubio is probably hiding in the empty space of his at least one-size-too-big 11.5s. 

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Marco and Trump have been known to pass notes, like in February, during a meeting with oil executives, when the president started trailing off into a daydream, and accidentally read aloud a note Rubio had slipped him: “Go back to Chevron, they want to discuss something.” Marco probably saves all the notes Trump has touched as keepsakes, tucked into that little gap. 

 

So Rubio never forgets that he is Trump’s true right-hand man. Not JD Vance. Not Stephen Miller. Definitely not either of Trump’s oldest two sons. Him.

 

I have a feeling Rubio hasn’t given up on his little boy dream of becoming the big man in charge. With these men, I just assume their thirst for power is a bottomless pit of eternal hunger. Trump apparently recently asked donors whether they’d back Vance or Rubio for 2028, and everyone picked Rubio. Rubio said he wouldn’t challenge Vance, but deep down… he knows he’s really Trump’s #1 boy. 

 

His daily affirmations
Not to be confused with his extra notes for Trump, I imagine Rubio has various folded pieces of paper with things like, “I am enough, ” or “I can do hard things, “or “WORLD DOMINATION WILL BE MIIIIIIINNNEEEE.” We all need affirmations sometimes, especially if you have a narcissistic boss.

 

Last week, Trump debuted a new troubling rash on his neck, which is always the stuff you want to read about while enjoying your morning coffee after learning about your aging president’s latest decision to wage war on Iran. As far as we know, Trump doesn’t have a Gary, so someone’s gotta be carrying around the ointment—it must be Rubio’s shoe. 

 

Even I’ll admit, one of the last places I’d look for those redactions is in Rubio’s shoe. Sneaky! 

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Finally, I’ll end this by saying—let me get this straight: the president spends his time styling his cabinet and shopping for shoes, but we couldn’t handle a woman as president? Right. Sure. Totally.

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