Trump was so upset by ‘small hands’ reference in 1984 GQ cover story he told staff to buy up all copies
A journalist who profiled President Donald Trump in 1984 said he was so upset by a detail in the story that he ordered his staff to buy up every copy they could find.
Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, 75, told MSNBC that he profiled Trump over 40 years ago for GQ, and hung around the real estate developer for “three weeks” to learn about him. But he wasn’t happy about everything in the article, Carter told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Thursday.
“There were a few things he didn’t like about it, including the fact that I said it looked like his hands were too small for his body,” Carter said. “He didn’t like it at all — he liked the cover, but he didn’t like anything else.”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | June 13, 2025 12:05 AM
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Short-fingered vulgarian is more apt.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 25, 2025 3:51 PM
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Trump must have a TINY, TINY little puny cocklet, for him to be so insecure.
No wonder he's so unhinged.
Small dick syndrome.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 25, 2025 3:53 PM
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THE FIRST THING I REPORT TO TRUMP after each of my meetings with world leaders is:
‘His hands were TINY. And you know what they say about men with small hands -- ‘
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 25, 2025 4:05 PM
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🎵 My hands are small I know, but they’re not yours they are my own… and they’re not yours my own 🎵
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 25, 2025 4:16 PM
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Short fingered, tiny palmed, orange colored vulgar rapist shitstain
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 25, 2025 4:24 PM
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Carter in 2015 shortly after Trump announced his candidacy.
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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | April 25, 2025 4:31 PM
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Jesus, the picture of Carter is horrific. He looks like the “after” portrait in the 1945 movie version of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 25, 2025 5:29 PM
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He does! And that Bozo hair was often the topic in VF's Mailbag (cut/don't cut) It’s hard to believe it could look even worse, but. as a geriatric, of course it does.
Doesn't he have a partner or close friend to tell him it makes him look, um, slightly eccentric? But I guess that's the point. At least it's not cotton candied like Trump’s.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 25, 2025 8:11 PM
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Poor Trump. So tender to the touch.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 25, 2025 8:13 PM
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Did he cry teeny tiny tears too?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | April 25, 2025 8:20 PM
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No empathy for dump. I look forward to his death.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 25, 2025 8:20 PM
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He was the best lover I ever had!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 13 | April 25, 2025 8:25 PM
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When did Graydon Carter morph into Gene Wilder?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2025 8:33 PM
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It’s way past time for Carter to change that hairstyle. What a freak.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 25, 2025 8:57 PM
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Grayson needs gel and a comb over.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 25, 2025 9:00 PM
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From Carter’s autobiography:
[quote] Donald Trump is not a man who is easy to ignore. But I assure you, it’s well worth the effort.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 12, 2025 7:06 PM
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[quote] Donald Trump is not a man who is easy to ignore. But I assure you, it’s well worth the effort.
Even from the literati, everything is now expressed as one-liners, written to get “likes”.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 12, 2025 7:21 PM
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🎶 my hands are small I know!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 12, 2025 7:26 PM
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That GQ story is still available online.
"The six-foot-two-inch frame is trim but well-nourished. The hands small and neatly groomed. The suit is blue and stylish—maybe a little too flared in the leg for someone who lives east of the Hudson. About the only thing that gives away this striver from an outer borough are his cuff links: huge mollusks of gold and stone the size of half-dollars."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 22 | June 12, 2025 7:33 PM
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ooooo, “striver”, that’ll send him into tiny fits of fury.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 12, 2025 8:37 PM
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[quote] Even from the literati, everything is now expressed as one-liners, written to get “likes”.
It wasn't like this in my day.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 12, 2025 9:01 PM
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One of this weekends parade floats is a depiction of Trump hands-mounted on a Mini-Cooper.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 12, 2025 11:32 PM
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Also from the Carter autobiography:
[quote] The Hollywood Reporter had obtained a copy of Trump's handprint, cast from his own hand at Madame Tussauds. A study commissioned by the U.S. Army indicated that Trump's hand length of 7.25 inches hovers around the lower 25th percentile of hand length among military men. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Trump "does indeed have hands just below average size, particularly for a man standing 6-foot-2.'
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 12, 2025 11:42 PM
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Wow Graydon Carter is looking rough. And boiled
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 12, 2025 11:45 PM
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Well, he will be 76 next month.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 12, 2025 11:48 PM
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Trump has been a pathetic little titty baby his whole life.
And hopefully dead R28.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 12, 2025 11:51 PM
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Sorry R28 - I thought you were talking about Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 12, 2025 11:51 PM
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How could you lose track that Trump's birthday, a national holiday, is this Saturday?!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 12, 2025 11:59 PM
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[quote]“striver”, that’ll send him into tiny fits of fury.
But it didn't. He was so obsessed with the remark about his hands that he also failed to take the hint about his tacky cufflinks.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 13, 2025 12:05 AM
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