Trump was upset over ‘small hands’ detail in 1984 GQ cover, ordered staff to buy up all copies: Ex-editor
WASHINGTON, DC: A former editor has disclosed how Donald Trump reportedly got upset with his 1984 GQ profile and ended up asking his staff to buy every copy from the stands.
Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter sat down with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough for an interview, where they discussed the GQ story Trump was not happy about, as reported by The Independent.
Graydon Carter says Donald Trump ‘liked the cover, but he didn’t like anything else’
Graydon Carter shared, “There were a few things he didn’t like about it, including the fact that I said it looked like his hands were too small for his body. He didn’t like it at all — he liked the cover, but he didn’t like anything else.”
He had his staff "buy up every copy they could find in the newsstands in New York", the Canadian journalist said.
In his profile, Carter described the now-president as someone who’s “six-foot-two-inch frame is trim but well-nourished. The hands small and neatly groomed. The suit is blue and stylish – maybe a little too flared in the leg for someone who lives east of the Hudson.”
“About the only thing that gives away this striver from an outer borough are his cufflinks: huge mollusks of gold and stone the size of half-dollars,” Carter wrote.
Donald Trump’s cover skyrocketed GQ’s sale
Despite the issue with the story, Graydon Carter said that GQ’s owner took Trump as “a star… because the sales of that issue of GQ were so strong.”
“So he ordered up a book, which became 'The Art of the Deal',” Carter revealed.
The book, by Trump and Tony Schwartz, was released in 1987, which it helped Trump get a lot of popularity.
Tony Schwartz said Donald Trump lacks soul
However, years later, Tony Schwartz told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett, “I knew this was a bad guy when I did the book. Trump is not only willing to lie, but he doesn't get bothered by it, doesn't feel guilty about it, and isn't preoccupied by it.”
“There's an emptiness inside Trump. There's an absence of a soul. There's an absence of a heart,” he added in 2019.
Schwartz and Howard Kaminsky, the book's publisher, have claimed that Trump wrote nothing in the book.
Meanwhile, Carter, once a friend of Trump but now a critic, told Scarborough that he left the US for most of his first term in the Oval Office.
“Having that ocean as a sort of buffer is like having a mattress when you're in a gangland gunfight war. This is the darkest time I think since the 1950s,” he claimed.
