Donald Trump’s Small Hands Get Slammed Again — This Time, By A Professional

In a Republican primary where policy is often ignored but no body part is too small — or, if you believe Donald Trump, too large — to be scrutinized, the GOP front-runner’s hands have taken another slam. And this time, it came straight from a professional.

Brian McManus, a writer at Vice, reached out to Dani Korwin, who happens to be an agent at a company called Parts Models. Parts Models, as is easy to guess, focuses on casting models for jobs that require specific parts. So yes, “hand model” really is a legitimate job, and this particular agency has been casting various appendages since 1986.

Korwin examined multiple photographs of Donald Trump’s hands, since she could not examine them in person, and her opinion was probably not what Donald Trump would like to hear.

“They don’t look stubby,” she said.

Unfortunately for the Donald and his little fingers, she didn’t stop there.

“But they do look child-sized. Childlike. They are somewhat smaller than what you would expect, certainly from someone of his stature.

“He’s not a short man, and you would expect him to have longer, more masculine fingers.”

That is the very sentiment that Marco Rubio, whom Donald Trump refers to as “Little Marco,” feels when it comes to his opponent’s appendages and has actually become a talking point for the Republican candidate out on the campaign trail.

“[Donald Trump is] like six-two. Which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is five-two.”

Korwin took issue beyond just the size and length of Trump’s fingers, stating that his hands are “severely weatherbeaten,” possibly from so much golfing in the sun between impassioned speeches on building walls along the Mexican border and calling his Republican candidates “losers.”

While examining one particular close-up shot of Trump’s hands, she said, “You can actually see the redness and sun spots. Whatever the underlying problems are, he’s obviously been in the sun too much, and hasn’t taken care of his hands.”

To add insult to injury, Korwin was all praises for the hands of Rubio and Ted Cruz.

According to Korwin, Rubio’s hands are in great shape.

“If he doesn’t make it in his political career, he can come work for me as a hand model,” Korwin said. “His hands have a nice shape to them, his skin looks good, not too vascular. A good-looking hand. If I was going to cast an executive type of hand, his hands I could use.”

Ted Cruz’s hands are, according to Korwin, model-worthy, as well. His hands are very slender, “which you wouldn’t expect, given his body type,” Korwin said, adding that she could cast his hands in an executive ad as well, as they “have an elegance to them.”

Donald Trump’s hands have been a point of contention with him since Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, began to call Donald Trump “a short-fingered vulgarian.” And, it seemed, Donald Trump simply cannot take the heat when it comes to his paws. Carter himself explained.

“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.”

After Rubio began to jab at Donald over the length of his fingers, insinuating that there is a connection between the length of a man’s fingers and the length of another body part, Donald Trump tried to vindicate his poor, slighted hands at the last Republican debate.

“Look at those hands, are they small hands?” the GOP front-runner said during the debate in Flint, Michigan, raising them for viewers to see. “And, [Rubio] referred to my hands — ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”

It was a moment that certainly stunned the debate moderators and the audience, but whether or not Trump’s stubby fingers and his rather surprising reference to them in a nationally-televised debate between presidential candidates will hurt him at the voting booth has yet to be determined.

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