'He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit
my hands': Donald Trump began the Republican debate in the way it
continued, with a crude remark about the size of his hands and his
manhood
Donald Trump assured a national television audience on Thursday night that he's not lacking in the manhood department.
Marco Rubio has suggested that Trump has 'small hands,' and that it could indicate another body part could be undersized.
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.
'He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit
my hands': Donald Trump began the Republican debate in the way it
continued, with a crude remark about the size of his hands and his
manhood
Obsessed?
Donald Trump is said to repeatedly send Vanity Fair editor Graydon
Carter pictures of his hands after he referred to the billionaire
businessman as a 'short-fingered vulgarian' in Spy Magazine
No problem here! Donald Trump was once again the focus of the Republican debate, the 11th since the nomination process began
The final four: Trump was up against
Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich at the debate in Detroit,
Michigan. A fifth candidate, Ben Carson, has opted not to attended and
is on the verge of suspending his campaign
The bigger man? Trump, who has a wide
lead in the Republican delegate count, came out in fighting form,
dismissing Mitt Romney and the Ku Klux Klan furore off the bat
Making his point: Mr Trump protested
'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?'
Assault from all sides: Donald Trump
was forced to field attacks from both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, as well
as Megyn Kelly the Fox News anchor who challenged him on his
flip-flopping political stances
Tag team
champs: Trump had to fend off repeated attacks from Rubio (left) and
Cruz (right) through the evening, with the best line of the night a
joint effort when Cruz told Donald to 'breathe' repeatedly before Rubio
finished him off with a joke about yoga
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 Melanie 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!' Trump said.
'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.'
Megyn
Kelly, the Fox News anchor who famously sparred with Trump during the
first GOP debate in August, was cordial to him on Thursday but kept him
on task.
She
played video excerpts of televised interviews where Trump contradicted
himself on sending American troops into Afghanistan, accepting Syrian
refugees into America and the question of whether or not President
George W. Bush lied drag America into the Iraq War.
'I
have a very strong core,' Trump shot back, but 'I've never seen a
successful person who wasn’t flexible, who didn’t have a certain degree
of flexibility.'
'You have to be flexible, because you learn,' he said as cheers erupted.
Kelly also grilled Trump on class-action lawsuits targeting his 'Trump University' real estate seminars.
'We
have a 98 per cent approval rating, we have an A from the Better
Business Bureau and people like it,' Trump said of the now-defunct
project.
'The rating from the BBB was a D-minus,' Kelly shot back.
'There’s a class action of 5,000 people' including veterans and teachers,' she said, who felt 'fleeced' by the classes
Obsessed?
Donald Trump is said to repeatedly send Vanity Fair editor Graydon
Carter pictures of his hands after he referred to the billionaire
businessman as a 'short-fingered vulgarian' in Spy Magazine
No problem here! Donald Trump was once again the focus of the Republican debate, the 11th since the nomination process began
The final four: Trump was up against
Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich at the debate in Detroit,
Michigan. A fifth candidate, Ben Carson, has opted not to attended and
is on the verge of suspending his campaign
The bigger man? Trump, who has a wide
lead in the Republican delegate count, came out in fighting form,
dismissing Mitt Romney and the Ku Klux Klan furore off the bat
Making his point: Mr Trump protested
'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?'
Assault from all sides: Donald Trump
was forced to field attacks from both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, as well
as Megyn Kelly the Fox News anchor who challenged him on his
flip-flopping political stances
Tag team
champs: Trump had to fend off repeated attacks from Rubio (left) and
Cruz (right) through the evening, with the best line of the night a
joint effort when Cruz told Donald to 'breathe' repeatedly before Rubio
finished him off with a joke about yoga
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".
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