[Ads-l] Origins of Trump Epithet

[Peter Reitan]

1988.

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An epithet that has been applied to Donald Trump ("short-fingered vulgarian=
 from Queens") is said to have been coined by Graydon Carter in Spy Magazin=
e in 1988, but the details of the coinage are a bit elusive.  Is anyone abl=
e to confirm for me which 1988 issue of Spy introduced this phrase, and was=
 it used in an article by Carter or in a parodic advertisement appearing in=
 the magazine without Carter's byline?


Fred Shapiro

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