Donald Trump is defending his hands again.
This time around he was responding to comments by Hillary Clinton, who, during her speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering on Monday, suggested that Trump’s wouldn’t be “steady” enough to steer negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.
“I have the steadiest hands, look at those hands,” Trump said, clenching his fist, during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “Far steadier than hers.”
Asked earlier in the day by the Washington Post editorial board if he regretted a past public discussion of those hands — one he used during a GOP debate as a metaphor to talk up his anatomical dimensions — Trump referred to provocation by Sen. Marco Rubio and said, “No, I had to do it.”
“Look at my hands,” he told the Post’s editorial page chief Fred Hiatt. “They’re fine. Nobody other than Graydon Carter years ago used to use that. My hands are normal hands. During a debate, he was losing, and he said, ‘Oh, he has small hands and therefore, you know what that means.’ This was not me. This was Rubio that said, ‘He has small hands and you know what that means.’ Okay? So, he started it.”
Trump was only beginning.
He recalled a supporter telling him, “You have good-sized hands.”
They are, he continued, actually “slightly large.”
“In fact,” he noted, “I buy a slightly smaller than large glove.”
Trump blamed former GOP primary rival Rubio, who had made teasing suggestions about billionaire’s digits, for provoking him.
“(Rubio) wanted to do his Don Rickles stuff and it didn’t work out,” Trump said. “Obviously, it didn’t work too well. But one of the things he said was ‘He has small hands and therefore, you know what that means, he has small something else.’ You can look it up. I didn’t say it.”