"Middle School Games! It's how people get turned off to politics! He's a very human guy!"

[JHB]

2. I seem to recall another guy, still pretty fresh to that "presidential protocol" thing...

...and pretty much reflexively acted pretty much everone else (and him, up to only a short time prior) is expected to act when meeting a foreign dignitary who gets called "king" or "prince" or whatever, before he caught himself and recalled his new situation.

I don't recall the reaction on the Right being "meh, newbie mistake."

What I recall is they were so outraged that it still gets brought up years later. After having completely forgot the prvious guy outright smooching and hand-holding the same kind of dignitary from the same place (might even have been the same guy, don't recall off the top of my head).

So suck it, Bob!