The topic of Trump’s hands has been discussed since the 2016 election when presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio mocked Trump during a March debate for supposedly having small hands for a tall man: “He is taller than me, he’s like 6 foot 2 inches, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5 foot 2 inches. Have you seen his hands? And you know what they say about men with small hands,” Rubio joked.
“Look at those hands, are they small hands?” Trump asked onstage in response to the comments made by Rubio. “And he referred to my hands, ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem, I guarantee.”
That moment has gone down in infamy, and Trump’s insistence that his hands are not small became the subject of a number of internet memes used to mock the president. At the time, HuffPost found that Trump apparently had smaller hands than 85 percent of American men.
During the most recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan dispelled the myth about Trump’s hands alongside his guest Brian Redban. The pair were discussing Trump’s comedic chops and talking about his new line of NFT trading cards when Rogan brought up his own encounter with the former president.
“You know, he’s got regular-sized hands?” Rogan asked his guest. “Yeah, I shook his hand. He came to the UFC. He was behind us and came up to us, put his hand on my shoulder, and I looked up and it’s […] Donald Trump.”
Rogan and Redban went on to discuss the humor behind Trump’s NFT trading cards, which were widely mocked. Acknowledging the criticism that Trump gets, Rogan suggested the former president was just one of many threats to democracy out there, but it shouldn’t stop people from laughing when Trump makes a joke.
“You can’t stop people from recognizing how f****** insane it is to have an actual former president be on TV selling like digital cartoons of themselves,” Rogan said.
Despite the criticism leveled at Trump, his NFT cards sold out within 12 hours. According to OpenSea, those who bought the cards at $99 and have since sold them, will have made a profit. Currently, according to OpenSea, the average sell price is 0.2887 ether (cryptocurrency), equivalent to roughly $350.
While Rogan has spoken out about Trump many times and even discussed how he’s refused to have him on his podcast, Rogan has also been critical of sitting President Joe Biden.
“There is clear evidence of cognitive decline,” Rogan said in October, suggesting Biden was suffering from dementia.
