President Trump Mocks 'Smallest Desk' Ever -- And 5 Other Times He Was Obsessed with Size
For President Donald Trump, “bigly” is always better.
So it was no surprise that, when he sat down to sign some bills in the White House’s Roosevelt Room on Monday, all he could think about was the size of his desk.
“It’s a child’s desk, but that’s okay,” Trump said to laughs from lawmakers gathered for the signing of four bills reversing Obama-era rules, including two on education.
“It’s the smallest desk I’ve ever seen,” Trump added as he examined the writing table affixed with a presidential seal. “Very, very glamorous, right?”
This of course isn’t the first time Trump has fixated on size. Be it his inauguration crowd, his hands, or a certain other part of his anatomy, the president has a habit of talking big.
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Here are five “yuge” examples:
1. His hands
Graydon Carter’s description of Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in a 1988 Spy magazine article came back to haunt him during the 2016 presidential election.
In November 2015, Carter revealed that Trump had been sending him pictures of his hands for the last 25 years to prove that his fingers were properly proportioned. Carter, now the editor of Vanity Fair, claimed in his magazine that “the most recent offering arrived earlier this year, before his decision to go after the Republican presidential nomination.”
“Like the other packages,” Carter wrote in an editor letter, “this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: See, not so short!’ ”
Last year, Trump himself insisted to The Washington Post editorial board that his “hands are normal hands.”
“I mean, people were writing, How are Mr. Trump’s hands?’ My hands are fine,” Trump, then the GOP frontrunner, said at the time. “My hands are normal. Slightly large, actually. In fact, I buy a slightly smaller than large-size glove, okay?
2. His favorite words and phrases
Trump’s way with words became a major talking point during his run for the White House.
His victories were “huuuuuge.” His tax cuts would be “big league/bigly.” In fact, the only thing small was his opponent “Little Marco.”
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3. His penis
And it was his former primary rival Marco Rubio who prompted Trump to allude to his penis size in the middle of a GOP debate in March 2016. Days earlier, the Florida senator had mocked Trump’s hand size to a rally crowd, smirking: “You know what they say about guys with small hands.”
“He referred to my hands, if they’re small, something else must be small,” Trump said at the debate. “I guarantee you, there’s no problem.”
4. His inauguration crowd size
The size obsession has continued into his presidency, with Trump first insisting that the media had grossly understated the size of his inauguration crowd.
“I made a speech. I looked out. The field was - it looked like a million, a million and a half people,” Trump said in January, accusing one unnamed network of lying when it reported a crowd estimate of 250,000 people.
He claimed there were 250,000 people by the stage alone and that the “rest of the, you know, 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument was packed.”
Photos showing large swaths of empty space on the Mall proved the president wrong. To add insult to injury, aerial photos of Trump’s inauguration later released by the National Park Service and juxtaposed with photos from former President Obama’s 2009 inauguration highlighted the relative deficiency of Trump’s crowd size.
5. His electoral college margin
Trump also inflated the size of his electoral college win, falsely claiming at a news conference last month that it was the biggest victory of its kind since Ronald Reagan.
Trump received 304 electoral college votes. In comparison, Obama won the 2012 election with 332 electoral votes, and the 2008 election with 365 votes. President Bill Clinton won the 1996 election with 379 votes and the 1992 election with 370. The list goes on.
Caught in the lie, which he had already repeated over several days, Trump offered NBC News Peter Alexander a vague defense.
“I was given that information,” he said. “Actually, I’ve seen that information around. It was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that?”
“You’re the president,” replied Alexander.
