<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The founder of Origin USA, an apparel brand proudly manufactured in the United States, has an idea about why Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was seen wearing a blue hoodie made by his company.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CEO of the Maine-based company posted a video on Sunday describing what happened after footage of Maduro’s perp walk went viral.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Last night, my phone blew up and I figured I was really the only one that could talk about this because my company, Origin, happens to make this hoodie,” Roberts </span><a href="https://x.com/originbjj/status/2007980338430284250?s=46"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a video gaining traction on X. “When my phone blew up last night, I had to figure out if this was AI or not, and I decided very quickly it was not.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here&#8217;s why Maduro is wearing our hoodie.<a href="https://twitter.com/originpete?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@originpete</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jockowillink?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jockowillink</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ffu9OD7Lt0">pic.twitter.com/Ffu9OD7Lt0</a></p>
<p>— ORIGIN (@ORIGINBJJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/ORIGINBJJ/status/2007980338430284250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why is this dude wearing an <a href="https://originusa.com/products/brrr-rtx-hoodie?variant=50903288316182">Origin Patriot Blue hoodie</a>?” Roberts wondered, noting the irony, considering that “this logo here on the shirt Maduro is wearing, this is the wave of freedom.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roberts shared the story behind that symbol, recalling how he started Origin in 2012 after watching his local community collapse as jobs were lost to overseas factories.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I had seen my community gutted over the years and hollowed out, and all the manufacturing jobs sent away, sent overseas, and what that left behind was hopelessness,” the company founder said. Origin’s mission, he added, was “the reclamation of our machines and the reshoring and the restoring of our communities.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Origin operates multiple U.S. locations, including a footwear factory in Maine and a denim factory in North Carolina. It produces the hoodie Maduro was wearing, which Roberts said may have been given to the dictator to compensate for the chilly New York weather.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think what I believe happened is he landed in New York and it was very cold outside, and what they did is they put on a hoodie on him,” he continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The final irony wasn’t lost on Roberts. “Probably a DEA agent slipped this hoodie on him and said, ‘you’re going to feel the fabric of freedom on American soil,’” he speculated. Whether intentional or not, the image of Maduro wearing a symbol of American manufacturing and freedom in patriot blue will not be forgotten.</span></p>

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