Donroe Doctrine: How Donald Trump’s Power Politics, From Venezuela To India, Reshapes Global Order |
Donald Trump has never been famous for telling the whole truth. Which is another way of saying that the President of the United States is not a total liar. Often, he may come up well short of the truth, sometimes just shy of it. We, mere mortals, don’t know if he has missed by a mile or by a whisker, and no political scientist has yet come up with a credible measure.
On truth, lies and small hands
However, Donald Trump is famous for, among other things, disproportionately small hands. His current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, whom Trump referred to as “Little Marco”, doesn’t think much of his boss’s hands either. Don’t let that submissive, obsequious, fawning, puppy-dog air in Trump’s presence fool you. Nine years before the real invasion of Venezuela, Marco Rubio taunted Trump, among other things, over his small hands.
“He is taller than me; he’s like 6’2”, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2”,” Rubio ridiculed. “Have you seen his hands? And you know what they say about men with small hands…” Rubio paused before delivering the punchline, “…You can’t trust them.”
Trump repeatedly punched back, famously: “I’m actually 6’3”, not 6’2”, but I’ve always heard people say, ‘Donald, you have the most beautiful hands.’” And, “Look at these hands. Are they small hands? If they’re small, something else must be small; I guarantee you there’s no problem.”
In slam-dunk politics, unlike in real life, dear reader, every inch counts. Stormy Daniels had another memorable take on that, but that’s another story, and Epstein is no longer among us. This is only a........