Donald Trump ‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’👐Trump mocked for giving speech at little table👶#DiaperDon trends on Twitter after outgoing president’s furniture steals limelight

 

Trump gave his Thanksgiving press conference from a tiny desk that looks like a throwback to a 2017 'SNL' skit: 
A composite image showing President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday and, inset, a 2017 "Saturday Night Live" sketch showing Alec Baldwin playing Trump behind a similarly small desk. 
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The topic seemed to rile the president, who in a tweet accused the platform of fabricating "totally false 'Trends' that have absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world."

Others noticed uncanny similarities between Thursday's press conference and a 2017 "Saturday Night Live" sketch that used a tiny desk as a punch line.

In the skit, Alec Baldwin played a Trump who was relegated to a child's desk to play with a toy while Steve Bannon (then Trump's influential chief strategist, depicted on "SNL" as the Grim Reaper) worked from the Resolute Desk.

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For a US president obsessed by size – his hands, his wealth, his crowds – Donald Trump made something of a bold U-turn on Thursday night by addressing the country from a desk seemingly designed for a leprechaun.

Trump said on Thursday he would leave the White House if the electoral college votes for the Democratic president-elect, Joe Biden – the closest he has come to admitting defeat – but his furniture stole the limelight.

While he harangued reporters and repeated unfounded allegations of electoral fraud, the internet zeroed in on his unusually small desk. Some called it symbolic of Trump’s diminished stature, some wondered if it was photoshopped (it wasn’t), most just laughed.

The actor Mark Hamill tweeted: “Maybe if you behave yourself, stop lying to undermine a fair election & start thinking of what’s good for the country instead of whining about how unfairly you are treated, you’ll be invited to sit at the big boy’s table.”

The hashtag #DiaperDon swiftly trended on Twitter, with people mocking the president as an infant banished to the children’s table for Thanksgiving.

“Thought this pic was photoshopped, but nope, just hilariously symbolic! Mini desk. Tiny hands. Infinitesimally small soul,” tweeted Adam Lasnik.

Trump later sent a blizzard of tweets accusing the media of misreporting his comments and Twitter of making up “negative stuff” for its trending section.

Rory Carroll The Guardian 27 November 2020

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