The Man Who Coined The Insult Trump Hates Most

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee sit down with the man who gave Donald Trump the insult which has got under his skin for decades: "Short-fingered vulgarian." Kurt Andersen, who edited Spy magazine in the 80s, dishes on how he went toe-to-toe with Trump when he was just a property developer—and skewered the millionaire's son from Queens every time. Andersen spills his theory of why Trump married Melania and reveals why the president couldn't bully Canada's new leader, Mark Carney, in the Oval Office. And Met Gala guest-turned-skeptic Joanna gives her thoughts on the celebrity night while Sam reveals what icon she has embroidered into her underwear.

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0:56.5	episode. It is a wild one. Spoiler alert, they're always wild ones. And of course, joining me
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1:09.7	content officer too? Well, you were supposed to ask me, according to our script in front of us.
1:13.6	Oh, I ignored the script.
1:14.9	As usual, I've already veered off the scripts.
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1:19.2	And we've got a strange man sitting between us too, which is very odd.
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1:26.9	our strange guest.
1:27.8	Well, Joanna, just because you asked, this week I'm the chief content officer of hand-done crotch embroidery at the Met Gala.
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