Cult expert flags 'loyalty oath' Trump's devised specifically to humiliate inner circle
By Tom Boggioni
Published March 19, 2026 9:43 AM ET
Donald Trump's seemingly quirky obsession with gifting ill-fitting shoes to his Cabinet members is far more sinister than it appears— a calculated ritual of humiliation designed to reinforce authoritarian control over his inner circle, according to analysts who study cult psychology and authoritarian tactics.
Columnist Chauncey DeVega, writing for Salon, argues that Trump's habit of distributing $145 Florsheim leather Oxfords to favored advisers functions as a "loyalty oath" embedded within a larger pattern of public degradation and dominance.
The details are deliberately cruel. Photos show Secretary of State Marco Rubio's gifted shoes are dramatically oversized for his feet — a humiliation Trump compounds by mocking officials about the size of their feet and what it supposedly implies about their sexual potency. Trump clearly knows the shoes don't fit, the columnist wrote. The point is precisely that they don't.
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I can't wait for him and his bunch doing the loyatly oath in leg irons and chain with handcuffs wrapped around there waists and they are being brought in with orange jumpsuits on.........
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They probably have some kind of tracking device hidden in them anyway.
Appears to be in his late 30s. Looks unathletic as hell. Notice the waistline? Girthy. Maybe over 40"? 
