It is fair to say that US President Donald Trump is prone to the occasional bout of self-aggrandisement and is not known for his ability to laugh at himself. Consider his reaction in 2016 to claims that he has unusually small hands. "Look at those hands," he said, holding them up in front of a huge debate audience. "Are they small hands? … I guarantee you there is no problem. I guarantee you." What problem could he possibly have been referring to? Anyway, for a man so concerned about how the public perceives his stature, the 45th US president is not going to take kindly to Tiny Trumps, a new online craze that involves Photoshopping pictures of The Donald to make him look smaller. Annoying him is presumably the point. The meme has now spawned its own subreddit, where web users have been sharing doctored pictures of Trump looking small, including one of former president Barack Obama kneeling down to help Little Donald knot his tie and another showing carefree Tiny Trump playing with o...
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