Girther Movement

About

Girther Movement is a satirical political movement calling into question the size of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's penis. The name is a parody of the "Birther Movement", which claims that United States President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible for presidency.

Origin

On February 26th, 2016, rival presidential candidate Marco Rubio attacked Donald Trump at a political rally in Houston, Texas, where he mocked the size of Trump's hands and insinuated that they were a sign of having a small penis (shown below, left). On March 3rd, 2016, Trump addressed the insults during a Republican presidential debate held in Detroit, Michigan, where he claimed that his hands were not small and assured viewers there was "no problem" with the size of his penis (shown below, right).

"He referred to my hands, 'if they're small, something else must be small.' I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee."

That evening, Twitter user Josh Greenman^[1] tweeted "produce the schlong form girth certificate," in reference to Birther Movement demands for Obama's long form birth certificate (shown below). Within four days, the tweet gained over 2,400 likes and 1,400 retweets.

Spread

Also on March 3rd, 2016, other Twitter users began demanding Trump expose his penis along with the hashtag "#Girthers" (shown below).^[2][3][8]

On March 4th, 2016, Hustler CEO Larry Flynt released an open letter to Donald Trump, which called for Trump to expose his penis to "a team of doctors" to determine his penis size (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published article about the "#Girther" tweets, including The Daily Dot,^[4] The Interrobang,^[5] Esquire^[6] and UpRoxx.^[7]

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