
Trump
immediately brought it up during a Fox News debate at the Fox Theatre in
Detroit.
'He
hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this one. Look
at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands – if they're
small, something else must be small,' Trump said, recalling a Rubio rally this
week as he waved his hands to the audience. I guarantee you there's no problem.
I guarantee.'
Trump
repeatedly referred to Rubio as 'Little Marco' throughout the night.
But
he initially retracted another insult he's aimed at the Florida senator. 'He's
really not much of a lightweight,' Trump said.
During
a February 28 rally in Salem, Virginia, Rubio mocked Trump's hands and drew
roars from a crowd of more than 1,000.
'He's
always calling me 'Little Marco' ... and I'll admit he's taller than me, he's
6’2″, which is why I don't understand why he has hands the size of someone
who's 5'2".
'Have
you seen his hands? You know what they say about men with small hands,' Rubio
said – adding a pregnant pause.
'You
can’t trust them!' he snarked.
After
the debate, Trump was happy to address the 'hands' issue again.
'These
hands?' he asked a group of reporters in the spin room.
'Look
at these hands!' he said as he turned them back and forth and stretched out his
fingers for effect.
'These
are the hands that can rip a golf ball 285 yards,' Trump said, gripping an
imaginary driver.
He
motioned to a television reporter – a tall, burly man from the entertainment
program 'Extra' – and asked him to put his hand up against his own.
The
Donald's fingers were fatter but longer.
'See?
Look! Hah! My hands are fine,' he said, triumphantly as his wife Melania looked
away. She stood next to him throughout the exchange.
'And
the other thing, I can tell you, it's fine,' Trump said before moving down the
rope line for another interview.
Trump
is said to send pictures of himself with his hands circled to Graydon Carter,
the editor of Vanity Fair, who repeatedly wrote articles about him while in charge
of Spy magazine, referring to him as a 'short-fingered vulgarian'.
Trump
blasted Rubio during the debate as a 'con artist' – turning that epithet back
again its originator – as he said he was an absentee senator.
'He
doesn't vote! He doesn't show up to work. He defrauded the people of Florida!
You defrauded the people, little Marco.'
At
the end of the night all four candidates on stage pledged that they would
support the eventual Republican nominee.
'Even
if it's not me?' an incredulous Trump asked, before declaring: 'Yes, I will.'
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