{"id":57600,"date":"2026-05-15T07:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=57600"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:45:35","slug":"rubio-denies-fashion-inspiration-from-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=57600","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Denies Fashion Inspiration from Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has no love for Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, and says he doesn’t take fashion inspiration from him. <\/p>\n

Flying with President Donald Trump to China, a picture of Rubio went viral as he was decked out in a grey Nike tracksuit. <\/p>\n

The suit — in brand and color, if not size — resembled the Nike Tech Fleece attire sported by Maduro when he was photographed handcuffed in a helicopter after US forces snatched him in his sleep. <\/p>\n

Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, posted on social media that Rubio was “rocking the Nike Tech ‘Venezuela’ on Air Force One!” <\/p>\n

In his first public remarks on the viral picture, Rubio made clear he did not have Maduro in mind. <\/p>\n

“You know what — he copied me because I had it before. I mean, I don’t know when he bought his,” Rubio said of Maduro in an interview with “NBC Nightly News” from Beijing. <\/p>\n

“The bottom line is that that’s a suit, that it’s comfortable,” Rubio said. <\/p>\n

“There was no message. I didn’t even know he was taking the picture.” <\/p>\n

Rubio, a Cuban-American, is a sworn foe of Latin America’s leftists and helped lay the groundwork for the January 3 operation to oust Maduro, a longtime nemesis of the United States. <\/p>\n

US prosecutors charged Maduro and his wife with drug trafficking, which they deny. <\/p>\n

Maduro’s vice president Delcy Rodriguez took over Venezuela with support of the United States. <\/p>\n

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