Posted on 01/26/2018 5:07:46 PM PST by mdittmar
Last year it was tight-gripped hand-wrestling between Donald Trump and France’s Emmanuel Macron that attracted media attention. Neither male leader seemed to want to be the first to let go during their first face-to-face meeting in July, resulting in what was dubbed the “never-ending handshake.”
On Thursday, it was the U.S. leader’s prolonged Davos handshake with Britain’s Theresa May that excited fevered media speculation with the British press seeing it as an expression of how the recently troubled ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States is back on track.
The Trump-May handshake was analyzed by the European media almost as much as the grab-and-pull power pump between Trump and Macron that lasted 30-seconds and came across to some as a tussle between Alpha males. The warm handshake between the U.S. and British leaders, according to commentators, reinforced the friendly words between the two, who talked about how the two countries are joined at the hip and even the shoulder.
Tabloid newspapers in London plastered photographs of the handshake on their front-pages.
The Daily Express blazoned the question: “Has May ‘tamed’ Trump?” And the newspaper quoted a body-language expert who commented that Trump arrived for the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, “like a posturing prizefighter entering the ring but during his press conference with May he stopped showboating and looked truly respectful.”
She added that “he used direct eye contact” when he remarked at the news conference to May “rather romantically that ‘I will always be there for you - you know that' and he produced the most normal handshake of his presidency so far.”
(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...
Silly wabbits.
This is the most ridiculous and nonsensical body language analysis ever posted here. Maybe even anywhere. Not mdittmar’s fault. Thanks for pointing it out.
Have all media outlets the world over become tabloids?
Don’t think the Brits relationship with Trump is back on track.
The Proof: Trumps first State Dinner will be with Macron of France.
Not May, the Brit.
...grab-and-pull power pump between Trump and Macron that lasted 30-seconds and came across to some as a tussle between Alpha males.
>>>
Macron an alpha male? That is just too silly.
Articles like this just make me laugh.
Let me see, Trump has been in the spotlight ALL of his adult life - not just some remote town - but New York City. I wonder if he knows how to handle himself.... /S
Seriously - they act like he just fell off a turnip truck.
Yeah, for one brief moment, he wasn't a weirdo.
What?
Yes.
‘Was one eyebrow raised slightly higher than the other? In depth coverage starts now....’
Most of these long handshakes are for the cameras.....geez....
Theresa May can go to hell.
She does not deserve respect from Trump, especially on how she stabbed him in the back numerous times when discussing Trump to the EU politburo.
May is a closet globalist, who would sell out America in an instant.
What ever makes the Brits happy with Trump is fine with us.
Nice to see the French head of State, President Macron get the first State dinner conducted by President Trump. Since the U.K. Parliament has many MPs objecting to a State visit by President Trump, he might consider conducting any necessary trade and governmental business at purely the executive PM to President level.
The President then should forgo any formal State occasions between the U.K. and the U.S. in either direction to include State dinners, State funerals, State coronations, State weddings, and any official recognition of visits to the U.S. by any other minor members of the British royal family for the next few years. The Vice-President or the Secretary of State could be available as the U.S. representative for any such State occasions that might happen in the U.K. during the next few years. This policy, if used by the President
would satisfy any objections that the U.K. Parliament members have to any type of State visit by the U.S. head of State - the President of the United States.
Keep the relationship strictly business.
dvwjr
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.