[Ads-l] Origins of Trump Epithet

[Jonathan Lighter]

For a player of eight-dimensional chess, time travel is a cinch.

Bilocation too, though it hasn't yet been reported.

JL

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Feb 28, 2018, at 10:01 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Used before April 10, 1888.
>
> By someone with true prophetic powers...
>
> >  Whether it was originally used by Graydon Carter or not, he was quoted
> as supporting the characterization.
> >
> >
> > From - Donald Trump called 'short fingered vulgarian' (Boston Globe) in
> the News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio), April 10, 1988, page 13<
> https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17882453/newsjournal/>.
> >
> > "A visitor has asked why Spy bothers paying $60,000 to fact-checkers,
> and yet publishes recklessly insulting epithets - like "short fingered
> vulgarian" - to describe its favorite targets - like real estate mogul
> Donald Trump.  'There's no factual problem,' insists Graydon Carter, one of
> the magazine's three founders, staring down at his own full-length
> fingers.  'Trump has short fingers, and he's a vulgarian.  I think the
> checkers did their job admirably.'"
> >
> >
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> Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 6:40:47 PM
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> > Subject: Origins of Trump Epithet
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> > Subject:      Origins of Trump Epithet
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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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