Is Donald Trump Doctoring Photos To Make His Tiny Little Fingers Look Longer?
Donald Trump's fingers are tiny. They are nubbins. They are midget digits. He's famously sensitive about anyone mentioning how out of proportion they are to the rest of his body, though, which is why it's not entirely surprising that official photos shared by Trump on social media look like they're being used to stretch both the truth and his stumpy appendages.
As Gizmodo first pointed out, there have been a few subtle tweaks - and several extremely unsubtle tweaks - to photos of Trump shared by the administration. Take a look at this: on the left is an image from an 18 January Facebook post, and on the right the unedited picture from the White House Flickr page which it was based on.
He's pretty clearly been made less orange, had a few wrinkles tidied up and stuffed into a girdle. Then there's this one, which turned up on Trump's Instagram and Facebook over the last weekend, compared to the original from the White House Flickr page.
A post shared by President Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on Jan 19, 2019 at 7:55pm PST
Apart from cropping generously around his hair and setting it on a white background to make it look a bit more bouffant, and slimming Trump's face down a fair bit with Facetune or something similar, look how long his finger is. Look!
That's a worn-down nub compared to the finger in a picture shared on Facebook last October, though. Here it is compared with the original picture from Getty, taken when he visited his golf course in Scotland in June 2016.
Last time we saw a finger that long it was attached to an alien flying over woodland in an American teen's bike basket. Trump's been very touchy about his stumpy fingers ever since journalist Graydon Carter started calling him a "short fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine in the mid-80s.
"To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump," Carter told Vanity Fair in November 2015. "There is always a photo of him - generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers."
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