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Marco Rubio humiliated by tiny red carpet rolled out as he lands in Canada for G7
(www.irishstar.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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Is this abnormal? Are there images of other people getting normal-sized red carpets?
If I had to guess, I'd say that others wouldn't have gotten a red carpet at all. It doesn't exactly serve a function, and I've never heard of anyone receiving one.
After looking it up, though, it appears that "Heads of State" use them on "ceremonial and formal occasions". Wiki link here.
Edit: Barack Obama was photographed with a large red carpet going down the length of Air Force One's stairs. The one for Rubio is miniscule in comparison.
It's sized proportionally to the hand size of the commander in chief at the time.
Or some other body part...
Well, then it should just be a very small mushroom-shaped carpet
The details on that picture say that it's at Andrews Air Force Base, so it's the US military providing the US president with a red carpet / staircase.
Alamy has a bunch of photos of John Kerry travelling by airplane and while sometimes there's a red carpet or a red staircase, other times there's nothing.