Nearly 30 years ago, Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, described Trump in
Spy magazine as a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
In an
editor’s letter in "Vanity Fair" last November, Carter said that he wrote the
Sky magazinecomment in 1988 "just to drive him a little bit crazy."
And according to Carter, it still does.
"Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer," Carter wrote in November.
"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," Carter wrote. "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," Carter continued. "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.'"
The History Behind the Donald Trump 'Small Hands' Insult