Liliputin -5798

I understand where the short-fingered vulgarian is coming from ... "
Mary L. Trump

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2025/03/08/5867

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The phrase "I understand where you're coming from" means that you understand or relate to another person's perspective, feelings, or motivations. It does not refer to a physical location, but to a mental or emotional state. It shows that you acknowledge the circumstances that led the other person to act or think in a certain way.


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How Donald Trump Became “the Short-Fingered Vulgarian”
Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen reflect on the origin story of a cultural and political phenomenon.

By Jon Kelly
March 7, 2016

Donald Trump’s Short Fingers: A Historical Analysis


By Justin Lane/EPA/Corbis.
“O.K., you, in the third row… Yes, you… I’m calling on you… Yes, that’s why I’m pointing… I’m pointing with my finger… My FINGER. This one… Why would you think I’m holding up a cocktail frank?”
Perhaps no publication so masterfully articulated the cultural semiotics of the 1980s—the greed, the excess, the wanton vulgarity—with the wit and aplomb of Spy. Founded by Graydon Carter, now the long-tenured editor of Vanity Fair, and Kurt Andersen, the novelist and radio host, Spy was (as its logo proclaimed) fun, funny, and fearless. In the magazine's pages, former Secretary of State and notable gadfly Henry Kissinger was reduced to, hysterically, a “socialite war criminal.” Arthur Sulzberger Jr., then the successor to his father as chairman of The New York Times, was dubbed “the soft, anxious heir to the throne.” But no epithet was more infamous, or oft-repeated as that of “the short-fingered vulgarian,” Donald Trump. Nor was any as enduring. At last week’s Republican presidential debate, Trump, the party’s improbable frontrunner, asked the audience, “Look at those hands. Are those small hands?”

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In a humorous and revealing conversation with NPR reporter David Folkenflik that aired Monday morning, Carter and Andersen reflect on the origins of Trump’s tagline (“Queens-born casino operator,” for one didn’t quite stick) and the history of their relationship to the digit-challenged businessman. They reveal the very formation of some of Trump’s most primal and absurd habits. So what happens if Trump wins? “Graydon and I would share a bunk in the internment camp,” Andersen notes. Carter, however, thinks it won’t get to that. Nevertheless, he notes, “I’m sure he wants to kill me—with those little hands.”


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Mary Trump reveals the childhood trauma that made Donald Trump the way he is

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“He never felt safe. He never felt loved.”