Fun facts The parent companies stock went up $2 when this story ran.
The company says “they cannot make shoes in America”.
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2026/03/10/trump-florsheims-local-story.html
The company is suing over tariffs.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-florsheim-shoes-tariffs-lawsuit.html
Trump leaned back in his chair and remarked: “You can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.”
Like what? It’s not like anyone has any influence over their shoe size. How dumb do you have to be to think that shoe size makes any difference in a person’s life?
I’ve learned that hand size is way more important.
You can tell if a man is a clown by his shoe size.
As someone who has weirdly wide feet, shoe size can be rather important. While I have adapted by just wearing boots that only end up with the toe area being fucky I can imagine if you had even more non-standard feet it could be rather annoying. I wish cobblers were more common.
The size of his feet. How much time he spends shoe shopping. A rough estimate of how likely he is to stub his toes. A general idea of how comfortable he is on stairs.
At least that’s my suspicion as a large footed woman with similarly gifted parents
Based on my son, who wears size 14 shoes, it correlates closely with hand size. I have no idea if it relates to anything else and I’m not going to ask.
Of course it’s well-known that Trump is sensitive about his tiny chubby hands, so he’s probably got the same neurosis about his feet.
Remember it’s always a confession from him. So he’s screaming here that he wears shoes 4 sizes too large and has the inside modified to fit him. Because he has a weird little dink in his diaper.
I guarantee it boils down to “shoe size has a passing correlation to penis size”.
This just sounds like he purposely ordered his like 6 sizes bigger than everyone else’s and is flopping about in some Sideshow Bob ass monstrosities just to try and convince everyone he has a big dick.
Shoe size does make a difference. Walk a mile in clown shoes and you’ll know what it’s like to be the sitting/always standing at weird angles president.
Clown shoes with lifts.
Oh good, my tax dollars going to this bullshit as well
I’m sure they were a donation from Florsheim. [Mostly I’m surprised Florsheim is still in business, as I don’t think I’ve heard about them in years!]
Trump is a material girl, in a material world.
Just gonna take this opportunity to recommend Solovair, the original makers of Dr. Martens. Still around, still making excellent steel-toe boots, still great for kicking Nazis in the stomach and groin.
Nothing better than a good and comfortable steel toe
Solovair are great. My wife has a pair of their vegan Chesea boots-- she says they’re wonderfully comfortable and she’s had them for about ten years with no sign of wear.
How well do they preform on the snap kick to knee cap with follow though shin scrape foot stomp?
Use a low side kick just below the knee joint instead, and hit perpendicular to the way the knee hinges. That’s highly effective at doing bad things to knee tendons. And if you do the shin scrape/foot stomp part, keep standing on their foot afterward. Extra points if you then use your own knee as leverage to hyperextend their trapped leg and tip them over.
Source: I’ve actually used that in a street situation and it works well. It doesn’t require great precision. And when I ran off, the attacker was unable to chase me.
His voters would have bullied him
I’m not certain how long, but it’s been a very long time since I even heard this shoemaker’s name. Boycotting will be so easy.
Hard to boycott something you’ve never considered buying. My own fashion sense is incompatible with wearing shoes more suited to a Midwestern WalMart assistant manager.
For most of my work engagements, black sneakers suffice, and on more formal occasions, I’ve got some black brogues.
I actively boycott all sorts of things, that I’ve never wanted to own. I may even have had a pair of Florsheim shoes, when I was a kid, and my parents needed me to have a ‘suit’ to dress up in, for some wedding, funeral, etc. Now that they are associated with toxic trumpy, they are as dead to me. They could take steps (pun intended) to rehab their image, the goper/maga stench is persistent.
We are at the buy random shit give it to the grandkids when they visit phase. Next week you will get a nice pen and pencil set.
Bolo ties for everyone.
A snare drum and gift card for your local non-Starbucks espresso joint.
So team USA women missed more than just Big Macs
Read the article and I have to say, while this is definitely just a puff piece, it’s one of the most harmless, humanizing things I’ve read about Trump all year. This shouldn’t have been an article in the first place but no one ought to be upset by it either
I mean it’s kinda interesting that the parent company stock price went up $2 the day this story ran.
It’s not. Everything is about money.
What?
One female White House official observed wryly: “All the boys have them.” Another added: “It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.”
Edit: The more I think about this, the more I love it. All of the republicans are probably in ill-fitting shoes and very uncomfortable. Noice.
Hysterical. Don’t want to upset dear leader
It’s probably somehow a dick move on his part, like flood the zone is for the media. If the republicans are uncomfortable, they’re less likely to talk back, maybe?
Unless, of course, hidden in the souls of every shoe is government secrets.
Shoes don’t have souls. That’s fine because neither do these guys, they already sold them.
I see what I and you did there. Oops.
