The New Yorker mocked Donald Trump with a cover image referencing the dust-up over the size of the Republican presidential front-runner’s hands.
The March 28 cover shows an image of a hand with phrases such as “Very big heart” and “Respected by the Hispanics” written on the palms. On the fingers, phrases such as “Not short. Normal” and “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” were written.
{mosads}When talking about his cover, artist Barry Blitt said that the practice of palmistry “never really established itself as anything more than a pseudo-science,” according to magazine.
“It was banned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages but enjoyed a popular resurgence in the late nineteenth century. In a reading, not only are the lines of the palm considered but also the relative sizes of the hand and fingers,” he said.
“Speaking of which—I hope Donald Trump doesn’t actually become President.”
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who dropped out of the presidential race last week, previously attacked Trump over the size of his hands.
“You know what they say about men with small hands … you can’t trust ’em!” Rubio said last month.
Rubio later said he regretted his personal attacks against Trump.
“My kids were embarrassed by it, and if I had to do it again I wouldn’t.”
In a column last year, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter also detailed how the Republican front-runner responds to criticism about his fingers.
“Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a ‘short-fingered vulgarian’ in the pages of Spy magazine,” Carter wrote. “That was more than a quarter of a century ago.”