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highplainsdem

(52,725 posts)
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 06:29 PM Thursday

"Handshakes with Donalds are usually quite a challenge" - Polish prime minister & French president mock Trump & tweet it

Bluesky post about this from MeidasTouch:
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3ld5dsiyxlk24

Tweet from Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland, with the video:


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"Handshakes with Donalds are usually quite a challenge" - Polish prime minister & French president mock Trump & tweet it (Original Post) highplainsdem Thursday OP
This made me smile LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #1
Someday someone should thinkingagain Thursday #2
Donald uses an intimidating handshake. Some have deliberately played his game. keithbvadu2 Thursday #3
I never met any of them DFW Thursday #4

thinkingagain

(1,046 posts)
2. Someday someone should
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 07:55 PM
Thursday

Either put a buzzer in their hand to shake with him or
Just before they shake cough/ sneeze into their hand that has a bit of Vaseline on the palm
That might freak him out

(I’m being petty and childlish I know )

keithbvadu2

(40,379 posts)
3. Donald uses an intimidating handshake. Some have deliberately played his game.
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 09:44 PM
Thursday
https://mashable.com/article/macron-trump-handshake

Macron annihilates Trump in the most awkward handshake battle of all time

DFW

(56,776 posts)
4. I never met any of them
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:33 PM
Thursday

But I remember the day I first met Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton (within an hour of each other, in March, 1995). Gingrich’s handshake was like a dead fish, where Bill Clinton was rock solid. Must be something in the party affiliation, or something.

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