Trump just made fun of Beto O’Rourke’s hands in insecure, projection-filled rant [WATCH]

This morning, President Trump took a moment to send some potshots at the latest challenger to step into the ring and vie for the presidency, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who just barely lost a brutal race for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat in the 2018 midterms.

Speaking at a press conference in the Oval Office, Trump lashed out at his newest opponent in a sad show of projection, revealing his insecurity and how threatened he feels by focusing on one particular part of Beto’s body — one that Trump’s self-perceived inadequacy is well known by this point.

We’re talking, of course, about his hands.

“I think he’s got a lot of hand movement…I’ve never seen so much hand movement. I said, ‘Is he crazy or is that just the way he acts?” asked Trump, referencing the prodigious gesticulation in O’Rourke’s announcement video.

It’s a curious line of attack for a man whose public political career has been largely defined by his hands, whether using them to disgracefully mock a disabled reporter or to engage in a manhood-size competition with “Little” Marco Rubio, or insisting over and over that his hands are in fact very big and tremendous and not at all a deeply rooted source of shame for the superficial real estate tycoon:

One has to watch just five minutes of any Trump speech for it to be disturbingly clear who the “crazy” one is — and if this is the best the President can come up with off the cuff, his staff should be very worried about his prospects for 2020.

Social media users, of course, immediately went off on him and began sharing their favorite Trump hand GIFS and images:

https://twitter.com/leslie_parks12/status/1106244900205531137

 

Natalie Dickinson

Natalie is a staff writer for the Washington Press. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been freelance blogging and writing for progressive outlets ever since.