2016 elections - because it's never too early

[garbon]

He was also endorsed by the "Rent Is Too Damn High Party", which I only knew from meme so far.

I could have voted for their candidate but did not.

[derspiess]

He was also endorsed by the "Rent Is Too Damn High Party", which I only knew from meme so far.

I could have voted for their candidate but did not.

Is it the same dude as before?

[garbon]

Wiki says he is retiring.

[Barrister]

Donald Trump just can't talking about the size of his hands...

HIATT: Just back to the campaign. You are smart and you went to a good school. Yet you are up there and talking about your hands and the size of private ...

TRUMP: No ...

HIATT: ... your private parts.

TRUMP: No, no. No, no. I am not doing that.

HIATT: Do you regret having engaged in that?

TRUMP: No, I had to do it. Look, this guy. Here's my hands. Now I have my hands, I hear, on the New Yorker, a picture of my hands.

MARCUS: You're on the cover.

TRUMP: A hand with little fingers coming out of a stem. Like, little. Look at my hands. They're fine. Nobody other than Graydon Carter years ago used to use that. My hands are normal hands. During a debate, he was losing, and he said, "Oh, he has small hands and therefore, you know what that means." This was not me. This was Rubio that said, "He has small hands and you know what that means." Okay? So, he started it. So, what I said a couple of days later ... and what happened is I was on line shaking hands with supporters, and one of supporters got up and he said, "Mr. Trump, you have strong hands. You have good-sized hands." And then another one would say, "You have great hands, Mr. Trump, I had no idea." I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "I thought you were like deformed, and I thought you had small hands." I had fifty people ... Is that a correct statement? I mean people were writing, "How are Mr. Trump's hands?" My hands are fine. You know, my hands are normal. Slightly large, actually. In fact, I buy a slightly smaller than large glove, okay? No, but I did this because everybody was saying to me, "Oh, your hands are very nice. They are normal." So Rubio, in a debate, said, because he had nothing else to say ... now I was hitting him pretty hard. He wanted to do his Don Rickles stuff and it didn't work out. Obviously, it didn't work too well. But one of the things he said was "He has small hands and therefore, you know what that means, he has small something else." You can look it up. I didn't say it.

MARCUS: You chose to raise it ...

TRUMP: No, I chose to respond.

MARUS: You chose to respond.

TRUMP: I had no choice.

MARCUS: You chose to raise it during a debate. Can you explain why you had no choice?

TRUMP: I don't want people to go around thinking that I have a problem. I'm telling you, Ruth, I had so many people. I would say 25, 30 people would tell me ... every time I'd shake people's hand, "Oh, you have nice hands." Why shouldn't I? And, by the way, by saying that I solved the problem. Nobody questions ... I even held up my hands, and said, "Look, take a look at that hand."

MARCUS: You told us in the debate ....

TRUMP: And by saying that, I solved the problem. Nobody questions. Everyone held my hand. I said look. Take a look at that hand.

MARCUS: You told us in the debate that you guaranteed there was not another problem. Was that presidential? And why did you decide to do that?

TRUMP: I don't know if it was presidential, honestly, whether it is or not. He said, 'Donald Trump has small hands and therefore he has small something else.' I didn't say that. And all I did is when he failed, when he was failing, when he was, when Christie made him look bad, I gave him the– a little recap and I said,  and I said, and I had this big strong powerful hand ready to grab him, because I thought he was going to faint. And everybody took it fine. Whether it was presidential or not I can't tell you. I can just say that what he said was a lie. And everybody, they wanted to do stories on my hands; after I said that, they never did. And then I held up the hand, I showed people the hand. You know, when I've got a big audience. So yeah, I think it's not a question of presidential ...

MARCUS: He said he regrets ...

HIATT: Okay, let's move on here. Let's move on.

TRUMP: I did feel I should respond. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. But I felt I should respond because everybody was talking about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/

(full disclosure - I grabbed the text from Redstate because WaPo is behind a 10 article limit that has locked me out, but I have linked to the original WaPo article)

[derspiess]

Seems to be more that people can't keep asking him about it.  He's not the one who brought it up here, nor even in the first place.

[Valmy]

Seems to be more that people can't keep asking him about it.  He's not the one who brought it up here, nor even in the first place.

Isn't it great that the freaking Washington Post has articles about it?

[alfred russel]

I'm not sure he is telling the truth. He is accusing Rubio of bringing it up in a debate. I'm not sure, but I don't think he did. All the footage I've seen had Rubio making the small penis jibe at a campaign event, and Trump bringing it up at a debate.

[Eddie Teach]

Seems to be more that people can't keep asking him about it.  He's not the one who brought it up here, nor even in the first place.

Because he's so fucking sensitive about it. It's hilarious.

I actually saw something about it before Rubio's comment, some reporter writing about him 20-30 years ago made a remark about his small hands and he wrote a rebuttal focusing on that.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not sure he is telling the truth. He is accusing Rubio of bringing it up in a debate. I'm not sure, but I don't think he did. All the footage I've seen had Rubio making the small penis jibe at a campaign event, and Trump bringing it up at a debate.

He didn't even follow through to make it a small penis gibe. "You know what they say about people with small hands? You can't trust them." Pretty inane nonsense, but it makes Trump's reaction all the funnier, as he was responding to something Rubio chickened out of saying.

[alfred russel]

I'm not sure he is telling the truth. He is accusing Rubio of bringing it up in a debate. I'm not sure, but I don't think he did. All the footage I've seen had Rubio making the small penis jibe at a campaign event, and Trump bringing it up at a debate.

He didn't even follow through to make it a small penis gibe. "You know what they say about people with small hands? You can't trust them." Pretty inane nonsense, but it makes Trump's reaction all the funnier, as he was responding to something Rubio chickened out of saying.

The funny thing is I bet that Trump's comment during the debate hurt Rubio more than Trump. The people that were turned off by what I think is the lowest class debate moment in my lifetime are more likely to be Rubio supporters--and probably very few were Trump supporters.

[Barrister]

Seems to be more that people can't keep asking him about it.  He's not the one who brought it up here, nor even in the first place.

That's why I posted the whole exchange.  Yes, he was asked "Do you regret having engaged in that", and then Trump goes on at length about the small hands issue.  He was asked, but Trump just took that ball and ran with it - going on about "how he had to respond".

AR and PW are right - nobody brought up "small hands" at the debate itself other than Trump.  And while Rubio was making a high-school level innuendo, Trump was the one who went explicit.

And nobody brought up Graydon Carter except for Trump.  Carter called him a "shirt-fingered vulgarian" almost 30 years ago - and Trump has never forgotten it.  Apparently every few years he'd send Carter a picture of himself with his fingers circled and a note saying "See, not so short".

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/graydon-carter-donald-trump

It's amazing he can't get past such a trivial insult even decades later.

[Berkut]

It's hilarious is what it is.

I would totally drop some hand size comments if I was out to rile him up - you know it works.

[alfred russel]

It's amazing he can't get past such a trivial insult even decades later.

Or that he is called a short fingered vulgarian, and the part that bothers him is the short fingered part. 

[Barrister]

It's amazing he can't get past such a trivial insult even decades later.

Or that he is called a short fingered vulgarian, and the part that bothers him is the short fingered part. 

Good point.

[Eddie Teach]

Meh, no need to be a snob just because you're rich.