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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe IS short-fingered.
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 himgenerally 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. -- Graydon Carter, A Short-Fingered Vulgarian.
dchill
(38,484 posts)Very big-headed.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)What a touchy short fingered vulgarian he is!!!
dchill
(38,484 posts)The best humor is true!
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/knotted/2016/03/unmasking-a-narcissist-5-red-flags/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)... with no basis, of course.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)Can RW get anything right about the man?
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)He's got big hair, that's all that matters to him.
dchill
(38,484 posts)monicaangela
(1,508 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Hair DrumpFührer has been hoping you wouldn't notice.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)And don't mention the aerial view what the fluff? Notice that part on the side? Couldn't even get that straight because of that one area missing hair....ooops, did I say that? Sorry, don't want the thought police to get me. I take that back.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)Short fingered vulgarians make better turkeys.
btw... why don't we have a turkey smiley?
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)What an elegant turn of phrase. Well put, Mr. Carter.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)he cannot properly eat pizza.
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Brother_Love
(82 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)I guess it doesn't matter whether he "means it," if we're actually faced with the prospect of a half-assed real estate tycoon as the potential leader of the free world, but I swear the guy sounds like he's just doing WWF routines, half laughing at himself, and the audience, the whole time.
I do think there is a fragile ego there, though. Anger doesn't bother him, nor other people dismissing him as a fool. But being shown up or insulted bothers the guy. For Christ's sake, he bragged about his genitals on national television over this "short-fingered vulgarian" thing.
Maybe there is a way to, if not shame, embarrass (?) Trump out of town?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)monmouth4
(9,694 posts)jalan48
(13,863 posts)Also, with no offense intended to men who are deficient with hair on their heads, I think Trump should be shown as a bald man. All the time.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)gloves".
What did you think I would say?
From a long fingered guitarist.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Granted, I played the piano, but still. He has squatish hands with short, chubby fingers.
What a clown!
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)He's a small minded bully and such a man should not be allowed close enough to the White House to take a guided tour.
(I was, at my tallest, 5'3", a little taller than JDPriestly, but then, I was a boy. I was no fun and it was bastards like The Donald who made it no fun.)
merrily
(45,251 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)I worry for this country.
People are going to be in for a rude awakening.
Chemisse
(30,811 posts)But what does interest me is how much HE cares about his finger size. It's a function of his narcissism and part of what makes him unsuitable to be president. I think it crosses past the line of personality disorder and seeps into metal illness territory.
He can't EVER let an insult get by without defending himself, no matter how juvenile. Foreign leaders could easily manipulate him. Want him to attack a country? Spread the rumor that the country's leader thinks he has a small dick. Well he will show them how manly he is! Heck, a simple 'yo mama' taunt could start WW3!
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Big hands, I know you're the one.... Can't get that out of my head when I see him now.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Tiny little hairy cockroach hand.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)One of Trumps best costumers!
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)Let's get over the physical aspects and focus on what's important: that he's an egotistical, bloviating narcissist with zero experience in government (or any other field in which he has to deal with people as equals) and delusions of grandeur, whose most common words are "I" and "me" and who sees his supporters as merely props.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I imagine the ridicule of his hair sends the liver-spotted looney into convulsions.