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This article is part of\u00a0<\/i>Upstream,<\/i><\/a>\u00a0The Daily Wire\u2019s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories \u2014 from our featured writers to you.<\/i><\/p>\n ***<\/i><\/p>\n The worst part of a new pair of shoes is breaking them in. You basically know you\u2019ll end up with blisters on the back of your feet. It\u2019s going to be great when you get home from work, if you ever do, and flip those bad boys off. Maybe the next time they\u2019ll be comfortable \u2014 if you ever muster the will to throw them back on. Let\u2019s face it, these days sneakers can even be considered business casual. Stylish dress shoes just aren\u2019t worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n That is, unless you take the advice of President Donald Trump. The man turns 80 in just over two months, and he\u2019s still working what sometimes feels like endless days. I assure you, none of it is in sneakers. He never got the memo about them qualifying as business casual, and if he did, he would have used a Truth Social post to fire whoever wrote it.<\/span><\/p>\n A lot of people wonder: How does he do it? <\/span>It\u2019s gotta be the shoes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Thanks to some shoe-leather reporting from the <\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a>, Trump\u2019s secret was revealed. It\u2019s a $145 shoe from Florsheim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nope, the New York billionaire isn\u2019t sporting $1,090 Guccis. He\u2019s rocking a Wisconsin-based shoe brand founded in 1892. And he loves its shoes so much he insists the top men around him are wearing them too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At a December meeting with two men who may both be president one day, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, Trump leaned over the desk to alert them both that they had disappointed him.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMarco, JD, you guys have sh*tty shoes,\u201d Trump said before asking their size and outfitting them with Florsheims. He\u2019s reportedly taken to doing it with many men around him, including the wealthy Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If it\u2019s good enough for the Cabinet, it\u2019s probably good enough for me. But specifically, what shoe is it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A visit to the Florsheim website found that nearly all the dress shoes are $145. Trump says you should wear a black shoe. I recently heard Michael Knowles <\/span>order a Daily Wire employee<\/span><\/a> to do the same. And I know from the Kingsmen you wear Oxfords, not brogues; a man doesn\u2019t need an adorned shoe.<\/span><\/p>\n So I imagine Trump is outfitting his team with the same black plain-toed Oxford I selected. It came in the mail last week, and let me tell you something: I skipped right past the worst part of a new pair of shoes. On day one, I felt like I\u2019d broken in the leather for years.<\/span><\/p>\n I put them on at 7:45 in the morning when I laced them up to leave the house, and found them still on my feet after I got all three of my kids to sleep just after 8:00 at night. I\u2019d like to say they were so comfortable I forgot I was wearing them, but that would be a lie. I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about how good my feet felt. And, just like Trump, I couldn\u2019t stop pushing them on my coworkers. I made two men in my office touch the inside of my shoe; at least one made a purchase on the spot. The next morning, he told me he dreamed about the shoes.<\/p>\n Once you take them off for inspection, it becomes quite clear what\u2019s going on. The inner lining of the shoe is partially lined with a thick, soft padding. Apparently, it\u2019s a proprietary Florsheim material called Suedetec, which is strategically placed inside the shoe to navigate the usual pitfalls of a new shoe.<\/span><\/p>\n The certainty that there is no break-in period prompted me to pull the trigger on one of the hardest-to-break-in men\u2019s clothing items: a pair of loafers (still $145) for black-tie occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n Most people looking for comfort end up wearing Crocs or Uggs. But in Florsheims, you can dress for comfort and still look like a president. Don\u2019t want to look presidential? Fine, how about imitating the greatest pop star of all time (before he lost his mind)? Yes, that\u2019s right. They\u2019re the same shoes Michael Jackson did his moonwalk in.<\/span><\/p>\n #FlorsheimFriday<\/a>: Did you know that Michael Jackson taught himself to dance wearing our shoes and sported them for the rest of his career? pic.twitter.com\/GWBOb9N2dL<\/a><\/p>\n\n