Donald Trump makes magazine corrections great again
One national magazine, which is great at journalism -- really, really very very great, it loves journalism and readers love this magazine, it's just a very, very great magazine -- was just forced to issue a yooge correction about Donald Trump's questionably sized hands.
Wired, the influential technology publication, revealed on Wednesday that it had accidentally replaced Trump's name in multiple online articles with the phrase "Someone With Tiny Hands" thanks to a "haphazardly-installed Chrome Extension."
The Chrome extension, which is part of a burgeoning cottage industry of Trump-related blocking and replacing technology, seeks to give users a giggle by replacing all mentions of Donald Trump with the phrase "someone with tiny hands," because Trump is so sensitive about the issue.
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Wired issued the glorious correction for one article about what takes place behind Trump on stage, then added it to a second article about candidate Ted Cruz after other online outlets pointed out the same mistake.
The dumb, disgusting -- and sad! -- Chrome Extension gained attention last week after the Republican frontrunner pushed back against opponent Marco Rubio in a debate for implying Trump had tiny hands and by extension a tiny you-know-what. Because democracy.
"He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands — if they’re small something else must be small," Trump said at the time. "I guarantee you there’s no problem, I guarantee you."
The exchange stems from an insult lobbed the editors of the now defunct Spy magazine years ago, calling Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian." Trump reportedly still mails pictures of his hands to one of the editors, his fingers circled with gold sharpie.
For any poor souls reading this in the future when all mankind has finally achieved hand-size parity, just know even in our time we didn't fully understand the big deal either.
Still, this week's Wired correction quickly set off all the giggles on Twitter.
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If nothing else, Donald Trump has unintentionally succeeded in making magazine corrections great again.
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Seth Fiegerman was a Senior Business Reporter at Mashable, where he covered startups, marketing and the latest consumer tech trends. He joined Mashable in August 2012 and is based in New York.Before joining Mashable, Seth covered all things Apple as a reporter at Silicon Alley Insider, the tech section of Business Insider. He has also worked as a staff writer at TheStreet.com and as an editor at Playboy Magazine. His work has appeared in Newsweek, NPR, Kiplinger, Portfolio and The Huffington Post.Seth received his Bachelor of Arts from New York University, where he majored in journalism and philosophy.In his spare time, Seth enjoys bike riding around Brooklyn and writing really bad folk songs.
