Posted on 09/25/2016 6:39:20 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Entire Title: "Hillary Clinton to use larger podium than Donald Trump at first debate to make up for height disadvantage: report"
Hillary Clinton says that we’re “stronger together,” but even she can’t deny Donald Trump is taller.
The Democratic nominee, who is 5-foot-4, has apparently enlisted the help of a raised podium for the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, who is 6-foot-3, Monday night, photos of the two podiums show.
According to WABC’s Rita Cosby, one of the two podiums inside the debate hall at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., is larger than the other.
It is believed that the larger one was built at Clinton’s request to make her appear taller than she is.
“Clinton is 5'4" and Trump 6'2" and her team wanted the podium modified or a box added so she won't look short next to Trump,” Cosby said in an email.
“One is clearly larger … than the other,” Cosby said.
Photos taken by Cosby appear to show two podiums of two different sizes.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to questions about whether the Democratic nominee would be using a raised podium at Monday night’s debate. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the debates, did not respond to questions either.
However, multiple outlets had reported last week that the Clinton campaign had asked the CPD if the Democratic nominee could use a raised podium to avoid appearing 10 inches shorter than Trump.
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I’m glad it’s ADA compliant. Good news.
Sometimes when Hillary is wearing clothes that make her neck disappear she looks a bit like that nutty leader of North Korea.
There was an article the other day that said Trump was going to use a regular podium and that Hillary was having a special smaller podium made for her use.
That’s too funny.
Great work.
(you didn’t build that)
It’ll look like Jeb Bush and his midget wife. Lol
Brilliant!
HAHAHA!
It looks like one of those hospital gowns that ties in the back and has the piping around the sleeves and neckline.
Thinking the same thing. Sure hope she doesn’t need assistance stepping on and off her platform. Sure hope she does not stumble and face plant. That would look real bad.
I know..
My entire family has been searching for Hillary’s neck.
We’ve looked everywhere for it.
Really when Hillary raises her arms, even her chin seems in danger of going missing.
LOL!!
that’s funny
Thanks for the good laughs Lucy, I haven’t laughed that hard in weeks.
Oh I don't know. I'd characterize it as predictably petty and typical of someone with low self esteem. Clinton knows Trump is the better person, better choice, so she cannot abide anything that diminishes her in any way.
She should use a smaller one so she has less distance to splat on the floor.
I know..
My entire family has been searching for Hillary’s neck.
We’ve looked everywhere for it.
Really when Hillary raises her arms, even her chin seems in danger of going missing.
LOL!!
That will make her look smaller ?
It seems there is a clear message being sent here.
Often, small women marry large men who will protect them.
Trump is a large man, while she is small. Thus, the message that size difference automatically conveys is that he is the protector. But she is running for the top executive office, for the position of the person who is supposed to be our first line of national defense. Hence, she does not want to be perceived as someone who needs protecting (despite her inability to function independently, as evidenced by the help she needs to stand, climb stairs, etc.). So she is aiming to send the visual message that she is as large as Trump and thus as capable of protecting the country as he is. She wants to convey a visual lie.
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