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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 05:22 PM May 2017

WATCH: Macron Coolly Ignores Trump Just Long Enough to Make It Uncomfortable




First of all, we’re including the above video from CNN and HLN’s Holland Reid because her commentary is just that good.

What’s in the video, you ask? Oh, just French president Emmanuel Macron greeting a bunch of world leaders during today’s big NATO event. You know the one: Donald Trump seemed to shove a dignitary, then he lectured the other leaders for a while when he was supposed to be talking about NATO’s Article 5, and then Angela Merkel talked shadily about not building walls.

Speaking of the German chancellor, look at how Macron greets her! In Reid’s words, he shaded Trump in the process by ignoring him juuuuuuust long enough to make it kind of weird. After that, Trump and Macron engaged in Trump’s classic “power struggle” handshake, but the Frenchman came prepared and pulled right back.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-macron-cooly-ignores-trump-just-long-enough-to-make-it-uncomfortable/
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WATCH: Macron Coolly Ignores Trump Just Long Enough to Make It Uncomfortable (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
He is a sociopath, he probably wont recognize human emotion that isnt rage or Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #1
I've only seen 2 emotions from him Warpy May 2017 #2
It was funny how Macron approached Trump at first Chemisse May 2017 #3
NOBODY HAS TREATED TRUMP MORE UNFAIRLY THAN MACRON!!! Rollo May 2017 #4

Warpy

(111,255 posts)
2. I've only seen 2 emotions from him
Thu May 25, 2017, 05:28 PM
May 2017

anger and a smugness when he thinks he's put something over on someone. Otherwise, his affect is flat, his face utterly blank.

Macron is a smart man, even though I disagree with him on many things. He knows what Asshole is and how to play him.

Chemisse

(30,811 posts)
3. It was funny how Macron approached Trump at first
Thu May 25, 2017, 05:59 PM
May 2017

Then pulled a quick detour. Just to help drive the point home.

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