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08-05-2016, 11:45 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/05/yes-donald-trumps-hands-are-actually-pretty-small/
Yes, Donald Trump’s hands are actually pretty small
Five months after Donald Trump used his time (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/) on the national debate stage to tell America that his hands – and therefore a certain other body part – were properly sized, the controversy has finally been resolved.
Trump does, in fact, have unusually small hands. 15th percentile small.
After numerous attempts to measure Trump’s hands – including one (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/01/are-donald-trumps-fingers-weirdly-short-an-investigation/) in the Post that analyzed photographs of the candidate – a journalist fromThe Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-small-are-trumps-hands-916593) cracked the case.
Near the exit of Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York hangs a bronze cast of Trump’s hand. It’s been there since 1997, after the museum’s artists took impressions of Trump’s body parts to create a wax figure of him for their collection.
The Hollywood Reporter measured his hand to be 7.25 inches from his wrist to the tip of his middle finger. (You can print out a life-sized outline of Trump’s hand here (https://www.scribd.com/document/320101685/TrumpsHand-Outline#from_embed?keyword=4417&content=10079&ad_group=Online+Tracking+Link&campaign=Skimbit%2C+Ltd.&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate&irgwc=1), and see how you stack up.)
According to data (http://www.theergonomicscenter.com/graphics/Workstation%20Design/Tables.pdf) from Ergonomics Center of North Carolina, the average American male’s hand is 7.61 inches long. Trump’s hand sits at the 15thpercentile mark. That is, 85 percent of American men have larger hands than Trump. As do a third of women. :lmao
But bear in mind, that is the 15th percentile among all American men. Trump is tall (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/08/how-tall-are-the-2016-presidential-candidates) – about 6-foot-3, half a foot taller than the 5-foot-9 average among American men, according (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm) to the Center for Disease Control. If Trump were compared to men of his stature rather than the public at large, his hands would comparatively be even smaller.
This whole controversy started at the end of February when Marco Rubio, at a rally for his presidential campaign in Virginia, said (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/marco-rubio-mocks-donald-trumps-spray-tan-small-37280875) of Trump: “He’s like 6-2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who’s 5-2”. He added, “And you know what they say about men with small hands.” The audience roared.
Three days later, at one of the final Republican presidential debates, Trump shot (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/) back: “Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this.” And of course, he defended the size of his penis as well: “I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”
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Yes, Donald Trump’s hands are actually pretty small
Five months after Donald Trump used his time (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/) on the national debate stage to tell America that his hands – and therefore a certain other body part – were properly sized, the controversy has finally been resolved.
Trump does, in fact, have unusually small hands. 15th percentile small.
After numerous attempts to measure Trump’s hands – including one (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/01/are-donald-trumps-fingers-weirdly-short-an-investigation/) in the Post that analyzed photographs of the candidate – a journalist fromThe Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-small-are-trumps-hands-916593) cracked the case.
Near the exit of Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York hangs a bronze cast of Trump’s hand. It’s been there since 1997, after the museum’s artists took impressions of Trump’s body parts to create a wax figure of him for their collection.
The Hollywood Reporter measured his hand to be 7.25 inches from his wrist to the tip of his middle finger. (You can print out a life-sized outline of Trump’s hand here (https://www.scribd.com/document/320101685/TrumpsHand-Outline#from_embed?keyword=4417&content=10079&ad_group=Online+Tracking+Link&campaign=Skimbit%2C+Ltd.&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate&irgwc=1), and see how you stack up.)
According to data (http://www.theergonomicscenter.com/graphics/Workstation%20Design/Tables.pdf) from Ergonomics Center of North Carolina, the average American male’s hand is 7.61 inches long. Trump’s hand sits at the 15thpercentile mark. That is, 85 percent of American men have larger hands than Trump. As do a third of women. :lmao
But bear in mind, that is the 15th percentile among all American men. Trump is tall (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/08/how-tall-are-the-2016-presidential-candidates) – about 6-foot-3, half a foot taller than the 5-foot-9 average among American men, according (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm) to the Center for Disease Control. If Trump were compared to men of his stature rather than the public at large, his hands would comparatively be even smaller.
This whole controversy started at the end of February when Marco Rubio, at a rally for his presidential campaign in Virginia, said (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/marco-rubio-mocks-donald-trumps-spray-tan-small-37280875) of Trump: “He’s like 6-2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who’s 5-2”. He added, “And you know what they say about men with small hands.” The audience roared.
Three days later, at one of the final Republican presidential debates, Trump shot (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/) back: “Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this.” And of course, he defended the size of his penis as well: “I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”
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