Overview
- President Donald Trump praised Marco Rubio’s gray sweatsuit aboard Air Force One, saying he thought it looked good.
- White House communications director Steven Cheung posted Rubio in a gray Nike Tech tracksuit, and the official account later shared a side-by-side with Nicolás Maduro labeled a “full circle moment.”
- Rubio told NBC’s Tom Llamas he was not sending a signal with the outfit and joked that Maduro copied him.
- The viral image triggered a wave of jokes and memes online, including users coining the term “Maduromaxxing,” and it briefly pulled attention from the Beijing visit.
- Interest in Nike Tech spiked in January after Trump posted Maduro’s arrest photo, according to Google Trends, setting the stage for this week’s renewed attention.