{"id":69096,"date":"2026-05-13T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/69096\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:52:19","slug":"marco-rubio-dons-nike-venezuela-tracksuit-made-famous-during-maduros-capture-on-air-force-one-maduromaxxing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/69096\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio dons Nike \u2018Venezuela\u2019 tracksuit made famous during Maduro\u2019s capture on Air Force One: \u2018Maduromaxxing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s \u201cMaduromaxxing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio went viral on social media Tuesday for wearing the Nike tracksuit made famous by deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro aboard Air Force One.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary Rubio rocking the Nike Tech \u2018Venezuela\u2019 on Air Force One!\u201d White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote on X<\/a>, sharing an image of Rubio en route to China in a matching gray tracksuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maduro was wearing the same model tracksuit when he was captured by US forces in early January.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSecretary Rubio rocking the Nike Tech \u2018Venezuela\u2019 on Air Force One!\u201d White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote on X. Steven Cheung\/X<\/p>\n

President Trump subsequently blasted out a photo of a blindfolded and handcuffed Maduro in his Nike Tech sweats.<\/p>\n

The White House described the gag as a \u201cfull circle moment,\u201d and shared a video on X of Rubio mocking Maduro shortly after the successful raid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t know, now you know,\u201d the secretary of state said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The video included shots of Rubio and Maduro in their respective fits.<\/p>\n

The top US diplomat\u2019s wardrobe choice pleasantly shocked many on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the Nike sweatsuit on board the USS Iwo Jima after his Jan. 3, 2026, capture. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease tell me this is NOT AI,\u201d podcaster Benny Johnson wrote on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease let this be real,\u201d NewsNation host Katie Pavlich tweeted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no way,\u201d right-wing influencer Johnny Maga posted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Maduro\u2019s capture on the front page of The Post on Jan. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n

Other social media users quickly Photoshopped an uncomfortable-looking Rubio on the Oval Office couch in the Nike tracksuit \u2013 one the most widely-shared memes<\/a> involving the secretary of state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLegend!\u201d White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said of Rubio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few X users took issue with the secretary of state choice of footwear, a pair of Adidas sneakers.\u00a0\u201cPresident Maduro wore Nike shoes, he didn\u2019t mix Adidas \/ Nike. Point for Maduro,\u201d one X user pointed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s \u201cMaduromaxxing.\u201d\u00a0 Secretary of State Marco Rubio went viral on social media Tuesday for wearing the Nike tracksuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[91,186,3395,12674,8760,987],"class_list":{"0":"post-69096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marco-rubio","8":"tag-air-force-one","9":"tag-marco-rubio","10":"tag-nicolas-maduro","11":"tag-nike","12":"tag-steven-cheung","13":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116566421976983761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}