{"id":392668,"date":"2017-05-28T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/28\/macron-awkward-trump-handshake-a-moment-of-truth\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T14:35:14","slug":"macron-awkward-trump-handshake-a-moment-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/28\/macron-awkward-trump-handshake-a-moment-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron: Awkward Trump handshake a \u2018moment of truth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Macron-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was \u201cnot innocent\u201d and was a \u201cmoment of truth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The awkward encounter saw each grip the other\u2019s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white .<\/p>\n<p>Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to \u201cshow he would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones, but also not overdo things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders met in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a Nato summit.<\/p>\n<p>As their vigorous handshake continued over several seconds, Mr Macron and Mr Trump also looked each other fixedly in the eyes until the US president attempted to disengage.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper his approach to the encounter had been about getting respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, the Turkish president or the Russian president see things in terms of power relationships, which doesn\u2019t bother me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in diplomacy through public criticism but in my bilateral dialogues I don\u2019t let anything pass. That is how you get respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pressing the flesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump\u2019s hand contact with foreign leaders has been closely scrutinised since he took power.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">In January he held UK Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s hand as they walked together \u2013 Mrs May later said he was \u201cbeing a gentleman\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">He then yanked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s hand towards him in one of his signature moves<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">But Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prevented this by gripping Mr Trump\u2019s shoulder during their encounter<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">And in March Mr Trump appeared simply to ignore the offer of a handshakefrom German Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was \u201cnot innocent\u201d and was a \u201cmoment of truth\u201d. The awkward encounter saw each grip the other\u2019s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white . Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to \u201cshow he would not make small concessions, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Macron: Awkward Trump handshake a \u2018moment of truth\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/28\/macron-awkward-trump-handshake-a-moment-of-truth\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Macron: Awkward Trump handshake a \u2018moment of truth\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was \u201cnot innocent\u201d and was a \u201cmoment of truth\u201d. 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