
‘You Did Not!’: Ex-Vanity Fair Editor Stuns Anderson Cooper With How He Trolled Trump
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“It was just too easy,” admitted Graydon Carter.
Graydon Carter, the former longtime editor of Vanity Fair, surprised CNN’s Anderson Cooper with a story about how he once trolled Donald Trump ― and hit a particularly sore spot for the now-president.
Carter’s feud with Trump dates back decades when, in GQ magazine, he described Trump’s “too large” cufflinks and “too small” hands in what was Trump’s “first national exposure,” he told Cooper.
“That drove him crazy,” Carter recalled on Monday while promoting his new memoir, “When The Going Was Good.”
Carter’s Spy magazine later coined the now-infamous nickname “short-fingered vulgarian” for Trump, a moniker Carter said “drove him crazy” even more.
“We tried to be friends for a period, and that didn’t work out,” Carter remembered. And then, just before Trump announced his 2016 presidential run, Carter said he received from him a 25-year-old ad for his “Art of the Deal” book with Trump’s hand in the promo picture circled by a gold-colored Sharpie.