And there you have it. The whole civilized world is now outwardly contemptuous of the current President of the United States. And no one is more deserving.
What so you expect when you have to deal with a school yard bully who should have been smacked down in the third grade and taught some manners?
This little episode shows that Macron, for his lack of political experience, is pretty damn savvy in how he decided to challenge Trump so he wouldn’t be treated with complete contempt like he does with Merkel.
The fact that his office said that the incident shouldn’t be over-publicized either was a nice touch about being big picture.
Le président français Emmanuel Macron, maître troller. Bien joué.
Vive la France, and Germany more than ever!
(Whoops, and Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Switzerland, Norway, Portugal, Denmark and the rest of Europe.)
Macron also has the advantage of being male.
And he has normal sized fingers.
There’s Trump, once again hoist with his own petard. Bravo, Macron.
And this little show of machismo by Macron will eat Trump’s guts out for months. This is the sort of male dominance ritual that rules Trump’s jumbled mind; he’ll want to get even with Macron forever. It’s exactly what’s so predictable and dangerous about Trump having his finger on “the button”; any petty grievance may lead us into world war. Yes, it’s that bad.
Too bad it did not result in a fracture of one of the small bones in Trump’s hand - occasionally those are very difficult to heal & can cause stabbing pain for a long time when ever they are stressed (like in a firm handshake) .
As it is - from this point on Trump is viewed as one of those “I gotta squeeze your hand in an absurdly hard way” kind of guys - and so everybody will be on guard and ready to crack a bone if necessary - if Trump pulls this macho immature stunt.
Have some Free-dumb Fries with that Shake, petites mains.
Macron was outweighed by what must be a good hundred pounds. But Trump was giving away more than thirty years. Advantage Macron.
Too bad macron didnt bruise the twitter fingers into 3 week recuperation period.
This is why Trump refused to shake hands with Merkel…in case she won.