Marco Rubio humiliated by tiny red carpet rolled out as he lands in Canada for G7

[riversedge]

Source: Irish Star




U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Quebec, Canada, for two days of talks with the top diplomats of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan - all of whom have been angered by the new American president's policies

By Yelena Mandenberg 10:19 ET, MAR 13 2025



U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to face a potentially hostile reception from his counterparts at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting this week, and that may be evident by the tiny red carpet rolled out in his honor.

Rubio arrived at the G7 Summit in the picturesque Quebec town of La Malbaie on the St. Lawrence River, and the Canadians - now in a trade war with the U.S. thanks to Trump - rolled out a red carpet they thought would be perfect for one of Trump's team members.
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The tiny carpet can be seen in photos greeting him as he descends the stairs of the airplane.

A tweet featuring the photo surfaced, with a user captioning it: "I can't sleep either. I'm trying to find things to laugh at like this tiny red carpet they put out for Rubio when he arrived for the G7."....................

Read more: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/marco-rubio-humiliated-tiny-red-34853953

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Link to tweet

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio disembarks from a military airplane upon arrival at Quebec City Jean Lesage and is greeted by a red carpet - for a few feet anyway (Image: AP)

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Well played, someone

Not so much a carpet, as a rug - reaching halfway into a puddle.

[thesquanderer]

24. Rug? I'd say it's a door mat, properly representative of his role in the administration. (n/t)

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Get a load of the pic ... red carpet in a puddle of water!!

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[groundloop]

9. NICE!!!! Would have been better though with no carpet and a huge puddle of water.

[paleotn]

13. My thoughts exactly. And no one there to greet him.

Maybe just a driver holding a white card that says.....water boy.

&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes

[sop]

31. A puddle covering up a huge pothole.

[Comfortably_Numb]

18. A tiny red bath mat. Like you would find in any respectable shitter. Like the shitter that is the drumph admin

istration.. but by all means “Leader” Schumer, let’s roll over for the turds who are running things into the ground.

[IbogaProject]

32. So funny

[bronxiteforever]

3. Little Marco now has a little carpet

[twodogsbarking]

4. He didn't even say thank-you.

[purrmaid]

41. And it was probably custom made just for him.

[tonekat]

5. Very appropriate

To put a bath mat out for him.

[Squaredeal]

7. He should know better.

I don’t get all this asslicking.

[Old Testament Libera]

8. ROFL !!!!

That picture is the funniest thing I have seen in ages. Very small red carpet in a puddle.

It is so appropriate!

[mountain grammy]

10. I would love to laugh at this

but I'm too depressed.

[Norrrm]

11. On one big visit, the country had their own large flags and two small American flags.

Pence? Turkey?

[Biophilic]

14. Way too go Canada.

That subtle Canadian humor strikes again. They really are geniuses at that.

[Skittles]

15. he is subservient to President Musk and the lapdog Trump

how much more humiliated could he be?

[hadEnuf]

16. It should have been a brown carpet

to match Rubio's nose.

[love_katz]

17. I would have liked this better if there was a deep pit

hidden by the carpet, a la Wiley Coyote. With a pool full of hungry alligators at the bottom.
Mwhahahaha.

[Codifer]

19. I can not understand why you

would want those poor alligators to suffer so.

[Geechie]

20. It's a restaurant entrance mat.

https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-3142R/Carpet-Mats/Waterhog-Carpet-Mat-6-x-6-Red-Black?pricode=WB2528&utm_source=Bing&utm_medium=pla&utm_term=H-3142R&utm_campaign=Mats&utm_source=Bing&utm_medium=pla&utm_term=H-3142R&utm_campaign=Mats]

Uline sells em but I suspect they didn’t use that source.

[Tansy_Gold]

29. It would have been an even bigger insult if it were from Uline

From Wikipedia:

Richard Ellis Uihlein (/ˈjuːlaɪn/ YOO-lyne;[1] born 1945) and Elizabeth Uihlein are American billionaire businesspeople, founders of Uline and right-wing donors.[2] Richard Uihlein is also an heir to the Schlitz brewing fortune.[3]

Personally, however, I think it should have been a big red necktie.

[Geechie]

37. A long red necktie would be perfect!

I figured they didn’t want to give any money to the Nazis. I used to buy supplies from Uline several years ago, before I found out. Now I recycle their massive catalogs, which they keep sending after I’ve asked them many times to stop. Thinking about making a swastika out of one and mailing it back to them...

[markodochartaigh]

21. How nice. Mark Ruby

likely was also negotiating for Canadian residency just in case Trump tires of him.

[DFW]

22. Still too wide

I would just have given the crew a ball of red yarn, held one end, and let the ball roll down all the way to tarmac, leaving one string of red yarn for Rubio to walk on. "Sorry, Mr. Secretary, it's all we had on such short notice."

[FakeNoose]

23. Why bother giving him a red carpet? They could have made it brown and sticky

... and it would have been totally appropriate.

[BidenRocks]

25. Pity the carpet

isn't covering an open manhole.

[marble falls]

26. Rich! Now do it for all US diplomatic and political leaders.

[Figarosmom]

27. And it ends in a puddle

Of water for him to walk through.

[LudwigPastorius]

28. Ha! They rolled out the red bath mat for a drip.

O Canada...nice one!

[royable]

30. Looks to me like one of those industrial rubber-backed carpets with 1/16" pile that are put at the entrance of a store

like Hobby Lobby or Toys R Us to wipe your snowy, muddy feed on when you come into the store from a slushy parking lot in the winter.

That said, it was too good for him.

How about a 2 by 3 foot carpet sample?

[mwb970]

33. Little Marco is nothing but a weasely little trump suckup. Everybody knows this.

[lark]

34. This is hysterically funny! I have bigger rugs than that in my small bathroom!

I adore Canada!!

[Juneboarder]

35. It shoulda been tinier... NT

[TommieMommy]

36. Oh that's funny 😅😅😅

[KewlKat]

38. I think a straight jacket may have been more appropriate, if not for himself, he could use it on the felon in the WH

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. This made me smile

Link to tweet

[republianmushroom]

40. Thank you Canada, love it.