There should be a rule in international diplomacy: No strange handshake rituals. Why, you ask? I offer this as all the evidence you will ever need – from the ongoing Association of South East ...

POLL: Most Americans want to permanently ditch the handshake after the coronavirus. Here's what they think it should be replaced with. ... An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.

Seconds 10-12 It’s these two seconds where this goes from a handshake to something much, much more. Macron goes for the hand pat but Trump goes totally next level going bro handshake OUT OF NOWHERE.

Trump and Macron shared another firm and prolonged handshake outside the cathedral, though it fell short of the intensity of the 2017 grip-off, according to social media influencer Collin Rugg.

The lack of a handshake – particularly given Trump’s handshake history – was taken as a sign of the tensions between the two leaders. As CNN’s Julia Manchester wrote at the time: “The ...