I can’t bear to watch it. Has he bought new shoes or had the old holey ones resoled? Every time I have seen pics of the soles of his shoes they have been in dire need of a visit to the shoe repair shop or replaced.
You can tell much about a man by his shoes.
Arab culture: the insult of the shoe
Showing the sole of your shoe has long been an insult in Arab culture.
By Caroline Gammell
4:23PM GMT 15 Dec 2008
Showing the sole of your shoe has long been an insult in Arab culture To hit someone with that shoe – as Muntadar al-Zeidi (pictured) tried with President George W Bush – is seen as even worse.
The shoe is considered dirty because it is on the ground and associated with the foot, the lowest part of the body. Hitting someone with a shoe shows that the victim is regarded as even lower. When Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled in Baghdad in April 2003, Iraqis swarmed around it, striking it with their shoes.
I didn’t copy the whole article, but you get what I’m referring to I think.