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bigtree

(85,984 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:25 AM May 2017

Macron Wins Handshake Battle With Trump

southpaw? @nycsouthpaw 29m29 minutes ago
Trump badly loses a handshake battle with the French president.






Gary He? @garyhe
Macron's handshake looks intense
twitter.com/garyhe/status/867710859224788993



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Macron Wins Handshake Battle With Trump (Original Post) bigtree May 2017 OP
LOL President Short Fingers! Demit May 2017 #1
Jajaja.. Macron's fingers/thumb can almost touch..dipshit donnie's fingers are stuck straight MedusaX May 2017 #2
This music should have been playing on in the background: Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #3
Trump looks like he's about to pop! flamingdem May 2017 #4
president Loser (R) Achilleaze May 2017 #5
Macron: "I call you a short-fingered LOSER" dalton99a May 2017 #6
well, in all fairness, this photo was taken when he was letting go gristy May 2017 #7
Trump was letting go first... StarryNite May 2017 #13
Trump looks like he is going to pee himself. wildeyed May 2017 #8
I love seeing Trump being dominated! smirkymonkey May 2017 #9
It looks like Macron was thinking ... caballojm May 2017 #10
Short fingered vulgarian IronLionZion May 2017 #11
Trump looks like... Peachhead22 May 2017 #12
:) Solly Mack May 2017 #14

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
2. Jajaja.. Macron's fingers/thumb can almost touch..dipshit donnie's fingers are stuck straight
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:38 AM
May 2017

Out ... he can't even begin to grip Macron's hand!!!!!

gristy

(10,667 posts)
7. well, in all fairness, this photo was taken when he was letting go
Thu May 25, 2017, 10:10 AM
May 2017

Last edited Thu May 25, 2017, 10:55 AM - Edit history (1)

They were both well wrapped up until then.

StarryNite

(9,442 posts)
13. Trump was letting go first...
Thu May 25, 2017, 12:26 PM
May 2017

kinda like a stare down, the one who looks away first is the "loser".

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
8. Trump looks like he is going to pee himself.
Thu May 25, 2017, 10:31 AM
May 2017

He should get some Depends, because the gig is up on his weird handshakes. No one is falling for it anymore. Treadeau's block game is still the best. He's an ex-boxer, so that probably helps.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/feb/14/donald-trumps-strange-handshake-style-and-how-justin-trudeau-beat-it-video-explainer

caballojm

(270 posts)
10. It looks like Macron was thinking ...
Thu May 25, 2017, 11:54 AM
May 2017

"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

IronLionZion

(45,403 posts)
11. Short fingered vulgarian
Thu May 25, 2017, 12:15 PM
May 2017

It's interesting that neither of them had held elected political office before their presidential runs.

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