According to a former Trump White House aide and insider, Donald Trump’s infamous insecurity about his less-than-large and manly hands is very likely going to cost one VP hopeful any shot at riding the former guy’s coattails into the White House in 2024.
Anthony Scaramucci, who once briefly served as Donald Trump’s White House communications director only to, like so many of his fellow former Trump officials, morph into one of the ex-president’s staunchest and most vocal critics recently made an appearance on The Rest is Politics U.S. podcast where he explained that there is “no way” his former boss will peg Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio as his 2024 vice president running mate — and it’s all because of Donald’s deep-seated insecurity about his tiny hands.
According to Scaramucci, Trump is still extremely bitter about comments made by Rubio back in 2016 about the now-former US president’s small hands. It’s something that still bothers Donald to this day that he has absolutely no desire to relive it again and he knows good and well that Rubio’s 2016 tiny hands comments would quickly become fodder for opposition ads if Donald were to add the Florida Republican to his 2024 ticket.
The Daily Beast’s Matthew Murphy reported on Scarammuci’s remarks:
Donald Trump has microscopic hands, it’s weird when you look at his body and you look at these tiny little hands coming out of those cuff-linked shirts, ok this is a little weird, the guy is sensitive about it. Marco called it out on the campaign, there is no way he’s picking Marco Rubio. No way! Because he doesn’t want that replay on all the liberal media, he’s not going to go with that.”
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Back in 2016, when he was running against Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, Rubio infamously and hilariously said of Donald’s appendages, “you know what they say about men with small hands?”
At the time, Trump, of course, simply could not leave well enough alone and fired back at the senator, who he dubbed, “Little Marco,” “He referred to my hands—‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
“This guy’s going with a white guy,” Scarammuci added before going on to dash the dreams of South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott as well, saying, “Let me tell you something he’s such a narcissist he can’t pick Tim Scott and then have somebody say to him ‘well Tim Scott helped you with the Black vote so that”s why you won the presidency.”
You can read the full report from The Daily Beast here.
Featured image via Official White House Photos by D. Myles Cullen
