If you’ve spent any time on social media, you might have noticed some people making jokes about the oddly short and stubby nature of Donald Trump’s diminutive fingers.
https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/693292256514723840
Well, there’s a reason for this.
Don't think of Trump's fingers as being pudgy. It's more like they're dainty little digits with abnormal girth. #TrumpsPudgyFingers
— jon gabriel (@exjon) January 30, 2016
I mean the main reason is very plain – it’s just true.
Here's the church, here's the steeple, open the door OMG TINY SAUSAGES. pic.twitter.com/PZh7HtrcGk
— TrumpFingers (@TrumpFingers) January 28, 2016
But the other, much less important, reason, is that it really, really annoys him.
The real reason @realDonaldTrump hates the Chinese: his fingers are so stubby he's never been able to make a chinese finger trap work.
— el ¡Soopèr! ن (@SooperMexican) January 27, 2016
What if Trump really got out of the draft because his pudgy little fingers couldn't actually reach to pull the trigger?
— Aaron Gardner (@Aaron_RS) January 30, 2016
I mean, like really, really annoys him.
It's like Legos taped to a potato #TrumpFingers pic.twitter.com/Ioeh9JcIGd
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 28, 2016
I’m talking about… 25 years of annoyance.
From Vanity Fair:
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.
I mean c’mon. Who holds onto a grudge over an insult made a quarter of a century ago!??!
I heard @realDonaldTrump tried to flip off someone once, but his fingers are so stubby, they thought he was waiving hello.
— el ¡Soopèr! ن (@SooperMexican) January 27, 2016
Trump does.