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It's official. My fingers are all roughly a half inch longer than Donald Trump's. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2016 OP
Post removed Post removed Aug 2016 #1
Making plain the ridiculousness of Trump's campaign is a worthy action. Moostache Aug 2016 #3
It's silliness. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2016 #4
Because Tinyhands Trump brought it up himself? Everything gets under his skin... Hekate Aug 2016 #5
National debt and foreign wars . . . Uponthegears Aug 2016 #8
LOL...I have relatively small hands and stand barely 6' tall (more like 5'11'')... Moostache Aug 2016 #2
That means you have a much bigger you-know-what than he does! NurseJackie Aug 2016 #6
Me too... KK9 Aug 2016 #7
OK, I looked BeyondGeography Aug 2016 #9
You must have an enormous schwanzstucker. nt Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2016 #10

Response to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. Making plain the ridiculousness of Trump's campaign is a worthy action.
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:23 PM
Aug 2016

It is Trump that obsesses about the hands - if you doubt this at all, just watch him talk with the wild gesticulations and finger orchestration in his next appearance on TV or anywhere else.

Pointing out something that annoys an easily distracted and easily annoyed enemy is not worthless effort at all. Read Sun Tzu's "Art of War" for the more nuanced principles, but in the spirit of TL'DR...if someone gets mad easily, antagonize them!

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
4. It's silliness.
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:27 PM
Aug 2016

At this point, I don't care though.

He himself made it an issue during the Republican debates so we'll just run with it.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
5. Because Tinyhands Trump brought it up himself? Everything gets under his skin...
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:30 PM
Aug 2016

...and mockery is only his just due.

Welcome to DU.

 

Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)
8. National debt and foreign wars . . .
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:40 PM
Aug 2016

Don't remember those as the focus of OUR platform.

The rampant sexism of bringing up a presidential candidate's physical characteristics (the Trump hands stuff may be ridiculous, BUT it was Trump who brought it to national attention).

Are you lost?

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. LOL...I have relatively small hands and stand barely 6' tall (more like 5'11'')...
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:19 PM
Aug 2016

And my hands were slightly larger than the Talking Yam's too...I cannot believe that he is self-conscious of something that petty and nonsensical...what a tormented hellish existence he must lead obsessing on such tiny details (pun obviously intended!!!).

KK9

(81 posts)
7. Me too...
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:30 PM
Aug 2016

I'm a 5'9" female and mine measure 7.52".

I'll have to check DH, he is 6'2" exactly. I know his hands are bigger than mine, so he'll no doubt "out finger" Trump.

And, this is why it's funny, he is obsessed with the size of his hands:

http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-fingers-small-vanity-fair-hands

Oh, ETA, someone needs to get a Twitter hashtag going where people take pictures of their hands next to the Trump measurement from Hollywood Reporter, noting their height and gender. That will likely cause a meltdown on his end .

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
9. OK, I looked
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:45 PM
Aug 2016

Not even close. Of course, my hands are so big. I have the best hands. And they're beautiful. Some people would say they're very, very beautiful. They've always been beautiful.

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