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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.”

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by Anonymousreply 33June 13, 2025 12:05 AM

Short-fingered vulgarian is more apt.

by Anonymousreply 1April 25, 2025 3:51 PM

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 Anonymousreply 2April 25, 2025 3:53 PM

Single and Fabulous?

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by Anonymousreply 3April 25, 2025 4:04 PM

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 Anonymousreply 4April 25, 2025 4:05 PM

🎵 My hands are small I know, but they’re not yours they are my own… and they’re not yours my own 🎵

by Anonymousreply 5April 25, 2025 4:16 PM

Short fingered, tiny palmed, orange colored vulgar rapist shitstain

by Anonymousreply 6April 25, 2025 4:24 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 7April 25, 2025 4:31 PM

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 Anonymousreply 8April 25, 2025 5:29 PM

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 Anonymousreply 9April 25, 2025 8:11 PM

Poor Trump. So tender to the touch.

by Anonymousreply 10April 25, 2025 8:13 PM

Did he cry teeny tiny tears too?

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by Anonymousreply 11April 25, 2025 8:20 PM

No empathy for dump. I look forward to his death.

by Anonymousreply 12April 25, 2025 8:20 PM

He was the best lover I ever had!

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by Anonymousreply 13April 25, 2025 8:25 PM

R9

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by Anonymousreply 14April 25, 2025 8:30 PM

When did Graydon Carter morph into Gene Wilder?

by Anonymousreply 15April 25, 2025 8:33 PM

It’s way past time for Carter to change that hairstyle. What a freak.

by Anonymousreply 16April 25, 2025 8:57 PM

Grayson needs gel and a comb over.

by Anonymousreply 17April 25, 2025 9:00 PM

What a dumb cunt

by Anonymousreply 18April 25, 2025 9:01 PM

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 Anonymousreply 19June 12, 2025 7:06 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 20June 12, 2025 7:21 PM

🎶 my hands are small I know!

by Anonymousreply 21June 12, 2025 7:26 PM

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."

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by Anonymousreply 22June 12, 2025 7:33 PM

ooooo, “striver”, that’ll send him into tiny fits of fury.

by Anonymousreply 23June 12, 2025 8:37 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 24June 12, 2025 9:01 PM

One of this weekends parade floats is a depiction of Trump hands-mounted on a Mini-Cooper.

by Anonymousreply 25June 12, 2025 11:32 PM

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 Anonymousreply 26June 12, 2025 11:42 PM

Wow Graydon Carter is looking rough. And boiled

by Anonymousreply 27June 12, 2025 11:45 PM

Well, he will be 76 next month.

by Anonymousreply 28June 12, 2025 11:48 PM

Trump has been a pathetic little titty baby his whole life.

And hopefully dead R28.

by Anonymousreply 29June 12, 2025 11:51 PM

Sorry R28 - I thought you were talking about Trump.

by Anonymousreply 30June 12, 2025 11:51 PM

How could you lose track that Trump's birthday, a national holiday, is this Saturday?!

by Anonymousreply 31June 12, 2025 11:59 PM

^ of the fact

by Anonymousreply 32June 13, 2025 12:01 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 33June 13, 2025 12:05 AM
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