In sign of apocalypse, Donald Trump defends the size of his … hands

Oh, yes he did.

During Fox News’ Thursday night debate, moderators addressed the somewhat juvenile tone that has overcome the GOP campaign in the past week.

Bret Baier asked Marco Rubio about the contradictory nature of personal attacks he made on Donald Trump recently, including an implication that the businessman peed his pants backstage at the last debate and mocking Trump for having what Rubio described as abnormally short fingers. It was a fair question, one the Florida senator immediately dodged by saying he’d prefer to debate policies and experience.

Then it was Trump’s turn to answer.

“I have to say this: He hit my hands,” Trump said. “Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one.” (Spy magazine famously referred to Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in the 1980s and ’90s.) “Look at those hands,” Trump said, holding his fingers up for everyone to see. “Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands: ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”

Oh, yes he did.

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