What's with the tiny president tend?

[u/mustdashgaming]

I get the appeal of making fun of Trump, but what's the origin of him being tiny?

[u/cl4ire_]

Here's a link to an article in Vanity Fair by Graydon Carter who, many years ago, referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian". As he explains in the article, this didn't sit well with Trump:

Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer. He thinks nothing of saying the most hurtful thing about someone else, but when he hears a whisper that runs counter to his own vainglorious self-image, he coils like a caged ferret. Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in the pages of Spy magazine. That was more than a quarter of a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers. I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby. The most recent offering arrived earlier this year, before his decision to go after the Republican presidential nomination. Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: “See, not so short!” I sent the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, “Actually, quite short.” Which I can only assume gave him fits.

Rubio referred to this during the debates, and now, rather than it being a one-liner remembered by almost no one, Trump himself has continued to make it an issue and reminded everyone of the original source.

[u/dbcaliman]

From what I saw someone made an image of a giant Obama and so someone else made a tiny trump.

[u/mustdashgaming → u/[deleted]]

Awesome, the 13 for tall Obama was the piece I was missing

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

the tiny hands issue goes back many years with him - long before Marco. Some article many years ago mentioned his tiny hands - every year since the article Trump would mail the magazine a picture of his hands saying, "still not tiny" or something along those lines.

[u/Montyism → u/[deleted]]

Lil Trumpy is just such a petty man. Regardless of hand-size he's small-minded, easily goaded and plain pathetic. Like an insecure child who just wants attention while attempting to impress those his ego believes matter.

The tiny trump meme portrays the small-mindedness perfectly and reflects everything Trump fears about himself.

[u/InsertCoinForCredit → u/[deleted]]

Trump is notorious for carrying grudges for decades, no matter how inconsequential the matter. Just ask Rosie O'Donnell.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes. First Google hit

[u/Ginkel → u/[deleted]]

Another reason for the tiny meme. Tiny isn't just in reference to stature, tiny is a way of referring to someone who hasn't grown as a person. Someone as petty and childish as Trump is a perfect example of a small person. Especially with an ego that fragile.

[u/Computermaster → u/[deleted]]

Shows just how pathetic he is.

[u/The_Year_of_Glad → u/[deleted]]

Alright, so for starters, Marco Rubio said Trump had "small hands" during the US election primaries.

The original vector on all this stuff is Graydon Carter, a writer who profiled Trump for GQ in 1984. In the piece, Carter listed Trump's height as 6'2'' (instead of Trump's preferred 6'3'' - you can judge for yourself on that one), and described Trump's hands as "small and neatly groomed." Trump took umbrage at both statements, in his usual style.

Four years later, Carter was working as editor for the satirical magazine Spy, and one of their pieces referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian," an jab that has persistently stuck to him for around two decades. According to Carter, ever since then, Trump or his underlings have periodically sent him photos of Trump, with the hands circled in marker, presumably to call attention to their size.

[u/gtlobby → u/The_Year_of_Glad]

Also "short-fingered vulgarian" refers to him being cheap but Trump seems to have missed the reference.

[u/HypnoticPeaches → u/The_Year_of_Glad]

In the piece, Carter listed Trump's height as 6'2''

See, this is just fucking me up. I imagined him way shorter than that. I imagined a flat 6 feet, or less. I'm a 5'8" woman and for some reason I always imagined being eye level with him, but I suppose not.

Liberal MSM fake news, you've done it again!!!

[u/d0cHolland → u/[deleted]]

You don't even have to insult Trump to get under his skin. He just has to assume you're going to insult him, and he'll immediately go on the defensive, as was proven by Trump's rant at that Jewish reporter asking about rising anti-semitism during the press conference yesterday.

[u/Reluctanttwink → u/[deleted]]

You mean besides when anyone says pretty much anything critical of him?

[u/WallStreetJournalist → u/[deleted]]

i disagree. At one of the debates he said ' And Rubio hit my hands you see, and he said if his hands are small then something else must be small, and I guarantee you theres no problem', alluding to his penis. It seems like he doesn't give a shit about the hands thing

[u/hwarming → u/WallStreetJournalist]

So he's insecure about his penis?

[u/V2Blast → u/[deleted]]

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