Early on in Thursday night’s Fox News debate, moderator Bret Baier asked Marco Rubio about his increased use of sharp, personal jabs at Donald Trump, from spray tan on his face to the size of his hands – the kinds of attacks he previously said he’d eschew. “I have very powerful hands”, Mr. Trump told CNN afterward.
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According to a 2011 study in the Asian Journal of Andrology, guys with shorter index fingers than ring fingers are not as well endowed as guys with bigger index fingers. The data was based on men who had urological surgery in a South Korean hospital and had their penises and fingers measured along the way (with their consent). While the men were knocked out, scientists – with consent, of course – measured their junk.
Trump responded on Thursday evening, after a perfunctory half-apology for calling Rubio a “lightweight”. “And I’ll admit he’s taller than me, he’s like 6′ 2″, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5′ 2”. Have you seen his hands? Marco Rubio (R-Fla) criticized his small hands.
The crowd roared in approval and Rubio waited for them to quiet down and added: “You can’t trust ’em!” At the debate, Trump tried to laugh it off, saying, “He hit my hands”.
“I can’t believe I’m gonna ask you this question, but do you realize you’re probably the first person in American history, maybe world history, to make a joke about your you-know-what on a debate stage?” she asked.
It’s perhaps poetic this happened on the same week the Republican Party is finally coming to terms that Trump is their most likely presidential nominee.
In the late 1980s, the satirical magazine Spy began mocking Mr Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian”. “On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie [permanent marker] in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers”, Mr Carter says.
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Three decades later, Carter stands by his assertion, as he explained in a 2015 Vanity Fair article.
