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The low life vulgarian told them years ago (Original Post)
malaise
17 hrs ago
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czarjak
(13,468 posts)1. Chosen One's privlege?
LoisB
(12,429 posts)2. Thank you. "Vulgarian" is the word that's been rattling around in my head that perfectly
describes IT.
GiqueCee
(3,478 posts)3. I'm trying to remember...
... which journalist branded Trump as a "Short-fingered Vulgarian". It was several years ago, and likely the origin of the tiny hands thing that pisses him off so much.
You always find the best stuff, malaise!
malaise
(293,267 posts)4. Canadian journalist Graydon Carter
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/the-canadian-journalist-who-first-called-donald-trump-a-short-fingered-vulgarian
US President Donald Trump once called him a "dummy" and "a real loser" with "no talent" and at one point said that he owned the worst restaurant in New York.
It all started when Canadian journalist Graydon Carter coined an infamous description of Trump that has now become a running joke in pop culture. He said the businessman was a short-fingered vulgarian in a 1988 edition of satirical magazine Spy, which Carter co-founded.
"At Spy magazine, we had funny epithets for people and the epithet for Trump was every time we mentioned his name, we called him a short-fingered vulgarian, which he hated, and then to his great horror, I became the editor of Vanity Fair," Carter tells Sunday Morning.
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US President Donald Trump once called him a "dummy" and "a real loser" with "no talent" and at one point said that he owned the worst restaurant in New York.
It all started when Canadian journalist Graydon Carter coined an infamous description of Trump that has now become a running joke in pop culture. He said the businessman was a short-fingered vulgarian in a 1988 edition of satirical magazine Spy, which Carter co-founded.
"At Spy magazine, we had funny epithets for people and the epithet for Trump was every time we mentioned his name, we called him a short-fingered vulgarian, which he hated, and then to his great horror, I became the editor of Vanity Fair," Carter tells Sunday Morning.
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yellow dahlia
(4,741 posts)5. Love Graydon Carter!
malaise
(293,267 posts)6. Yep
Leave Greedland alone
GiqueCee
(3,478 posts)7. Thank you!