It was the late 1980s when Spy magazine founders Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen chose the sobriquet short-fingered vulgarian to describe the insufferable Donald Trump. Trump is, to this day, not over it.
"[Trump] blames me for this more than Kurt. He'll send me pictures, tear sheets from magazines, and he did it as recently as [last] April. With a gold Sharpie, he'll circle his fingers and in his handwriting say, "See, not so short." And this April when he sent me one, I just — I should have held on to the thing, but I sent it right back by messenger with a note, a card stapled to the top, saying, "Actually, quite short." And I know it just gives him absolute fits. And now that it's become sort of part of the whole campaign rhetoric, I'm sure he wants to just kill me — with those little hands."
Imagine being so pissed off at a petty insult from satirists that you keep track of who did it for thirty years, and are still sending them mail trying to prove them wrong. If anything, I'm beginning to think we underestimated Donald Trump. Now here's a man with a focus. The focus may be on the size of his own fingers, sure, but to remember—to keep tabs on—individual people who have insulted you for three decades makes Richard Nixon look positively laid-back.
He'd still kill us all if elected president, of course. This guy probably has a whole floor of the Trump Tower devoted to storing his enemies list.