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WATCH: Trump tries power handshake on French president and gets defeated by a white knuckle grip
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-trump-tries-power-handshake-on-french-president-and-gets-defeated-by-a-white-knuckle-grip/
French President Emmanuel Macron was ready on Thursday when President Donald Trump tried to use his power handshake move.
When meeting foreign leaders and even his own allies, Trump is known for pulling people close to him as his shakes their hand. A move designed to show dominance over the recipient.
But when the U.S. president tried the move on the French president on Thursday, it didnt go as planned. Macron grabbed Trumps hand and wouldnt let go. The mens knuckles could be seen turning white as Macron gripped Trumps hand.
Link to tweet
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)Who can't even speak it as his FIRST language.
AJT
(5,240 posts)(luckily I had already swallowed the sip of water I was drinking. otherwise.... )
BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)Macron is 10 days older than Donald Jr.
mnhtnbb
(31,420 posts)born 21 December 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron
Trump born June 14, 1946 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)Not Sr. who you are linking to!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr. born (December 31, 1977)
mnhtnbb
(31,420 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)drray23
(7,638 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)Orrex
(63,295 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)What's on second, and I don't know's on third.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,786 posts)Donald, Jr. born December 31, 1977.
Donald John Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977)
malaise
(269,348 posts)A classic 'don't fuck with me you short-fingered vulgarian' moment
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Guardian has video of this standing handshake, shows after the sitting one.
It must gall Trump even more that these two who defeated his tactics are French and French Canadian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/25/trump-v-macron-french-president-appears-to-win-latest-handshake-battle
womanofthehills
(8,819 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm at work and I just burst out laughing at my desk!
BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)jpak
(41,761 posts)manicraven
(901 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,262 posts)JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)"8. Perhaps President Macron is not bisexual and doesn't want his hand pulled onto Trump's dick."
Is it a worse situation if Trump (or anyone else) were actually bisexual... as if being bisexual were a negative attribute? Gay bashing aside, is it a reasonable expectation that bisexual people try to pull others' hands into their dicks - thus necessitating overly firm handshakes?
I just don't understand that comment.
TheBlackAdder
(28,262 posts).
Trump has been reported, in the past, to move people's hands towards his junk. That's all.
I have an LGBTQ kid, so not only am I attuned and support her, I am not reactive and fear discourse.
Having both a technical and literary background, one of the things that bothers me are SJWs.
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manicraven
(901 posts)Raven
(13,910 posts)that first picture. Maybe that's his problem.
malaise
(269,348 posts)bowl - he must really be full of shit for one handshake to do that
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,047 posts)That's some grabbing
fishwax
(29,152 posts)The need to try silly tricks like that just demonstrates intellectual and emotional weakness.