--- title: Republican Debate: Donald Trump Defends His Hands description: "I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee it." canonical: https://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-04T02:46:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:37:00.315Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Trump Talk About His Private Parts at the Debate og:description: "I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee it." og:url: https://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3459a57616476ac2/69888036196cf477a903a9ec/timpeol-gop-republican-debate-donald-trump-marco-rubio-ted-cruz-john-kasich-04.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Trump Talk About His Private Parts at the Debate twitter:description: "I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee it." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3459a57616476ac2/69888036196cf477a903a9ec/timpeol-gop-republican-debate-donald-trump-marco-rubio-ted-cruz-john-kasich-04.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Trump Talk About His Private Parts at the Debate by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Mar 4, 2016 2:46 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shows off the size of his hands as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, left, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz watch during a debate in Detroit, on March 3. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shows off the size of his hands as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, left, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz watch during a debate in Detroit, on March 3.Jim Young—Reuters by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Mar 4, 2016 2:46 AM UTC Donald Trump has broken with all kinds of norms during his presidential campaign so far, but he just went to a whole new plane during [Thursday’s Republican debate](http://time.com/4247275/donald-trump-mitt-romney-john-mccain/?1) when he talked about his private parts. The whole thing started when Sen. Marco Rubio made a snarky comment at an event in Virginia last month about Trump’s [apparently “small” hands.](http://time.com/4240842/rubio-trump-attack-gop-republican/) “\[Rubio\] hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands, I’ve never heard of this before. Look at those hands, are they small hands?” Trump told the audience in Detroit. “And he referred to my hands, ‘if they’re small something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem, I guarantee it.” Rubio did not, in fact, imply that anything else was small. “And you know what they say about guys with small hands…” [he told the crowd in Virginia](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-has-small-hands-marco-rubio-says-n527791) with a pause. “‘You can’t trust ’em!'” After Trump [won several states on Super Tuesday](http://time.com/4244278/super-tuesday-primary-results-donald-trump-ted-cruz-marco-rubio/), the Republican establishment is looking to paint the brash New Yorker into a corner. Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney turned on Trump earlier Thursday, [calling on Republicans to stop Trump](http://time.com/4246564/romney-calls-on-republican-voters-to-stop-trump/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/"},"headline":"Watch Trump Talk About His Private Parts at the Debate","datePublished":"2016-03-04T02:46:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:37:00.315Z","description":"\"I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee it.\"","url":"https://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/","keywords":["Debates","republicans","2016 Election topic","Sen. Marco Rubio","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3459a57616476ac2/69888036196cf477a903a9ec/timpeol-gop-republican-debate-donald-trump-marco-rubio-ted-cruz-john-kasich-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3459a57616476ac2/69888036196cf477a903a9ec/timpeol-gop-republican-debate-donald-trump-marco-rubio-ted-cruz-john-kasich-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIMEPOL Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shows off the size of his hands as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, left, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz watch during a debate in Detroit, on March 3.","creditText":"Jim Young—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/","name":"Watch Trump Talk About His Private Parts at the Debate"}}]}] ```