U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that there is "no context" behind the tracksuit in which he was photographed during a flight to China, amid its stylistic similarity to the suit worn by ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro when he was captured by U.S. forces, UNN reports, citing NBC News.
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"There is no context. It's a nice suit. I like it. It's comfortable," Rubio said today in an interview with NBC Nightly News in Beijing.
If anything, "he copied me because I already had one," said Rubio, who appeared in the suit in a photograph posted online by White House Communications Director Steven Cheung.
"I don't know when he bought his. I didn't even know he had it," he said.
Ultimately, according to Rubio, "it's comfortable. I don't know. There was no meaning behind it. I didn't even know he was taking a picture."
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Rubio's presence aboard the presidential plane during the trip to China quickly attracted attention online: the White House released a photo of him relaxing in a Nike tracksuit similar to the one worn by ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro when U.S. forces captured him in January.