Donald Trump's Hand Really is Quite Petite

You can really creep someone out when you tell them you're just at their museum to see Donald Trump's hand.

"Ew! What?" said the woman who scanned my ticket to enter the Madame Tussaud's museum in Times Square. "Please tell me you're not a fan."

"I'm a journalist, I'm supposed to be writing something about how small his hands are," I said.

The issue of Donald's allegedly tiny hands has been a topic of viral conversation for months, so it was my job to find out the truth: how small are these hands?

The security guard sighed. "I have no idea where that is," she said. "Good luck to you."

I eventually found that Donald's bronze hand cast and plaque, with his photo and a letter from him to the museum, were tucked away near a corner of the museum's fifth floor. The presidential nominee's plaque is a total afterthought. It's what most visitors stumble upon after they visit the Madame Tussauds giftshop, when they're all wax-figured out and bickering about whether to go to Planet Hollywood or Shake Shack for dinner.

But although his display isn't too apparent, Donald elicited a reaction from almost everyone who caught a glimpse of his handprint. A boy held out a fist full of dollars next to Donald's headshot face and said, "All I do is win," trying to impress his friends.

Another young boy said, "Donald Trump! Peh! I spit on it!"

Another boy approached the plaque and said, "Donald Trump? Ew! Where's LeBron James?"

"I heard he wouldn't stop writing letters to that man who said he had small hands!" a woman said to her children.

She was referring to this Vanity Fair article in which Spy magazine reporter Graydon Carter writes that Trump still sends him the occasional photo of himself with his fingers circled, saying "not that short!" after the writer started describing him in his articles as a "short-fingered vulgarian."

The hand issue officially became an electability issue in March. Trump's former opponent Marco Rubio said Trump's hands were too small compared to his height, which is 6'2''. Trump fired back during a Republican debate in March, then making the hand issue and the electability issue a penis issue:

"Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, he referred to my hands -- 'if they're small, something else must be small.' I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee."

According to the museum's cast, at least one of his hands is smaller than average, or it at least was in 1997 when Madame Tussauds staffers took its measurements. It looks even smaller next to the hand casts of Michael Jackson and Lou Reed, which are both relatively large.

Hollywood Reporter made a life-size print-out of Trump's hand so you can hold yours against it and measure yourself.

"This has been a great and different experience — a lot of fun — I look forward to seeing the end result. Best wishes Donald Trump," the autographed letter says.

All images by Sarah Kaufman/Patch