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Donald Trump’s most awkward handshakes with other world leaders [Video]

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Donald Trump has a long list of infamous handshakes

Reuters

If there’s one thing Donald Trump is well-known for other than his politics, it is his bone-crushing, toe-curling long handshakes.

Politicians’ handshakes are typically overlooked but only in Mr Trump’s case do they seem to have attracted widespread media attention.

The Washington Post has suggested that world leaders prepare themselves to counteract the handshake from Mr Trump because he “has a habit of sharing awkward, intense and sometimes downright strange handshakes with world leaders and US officials”.

Here are a couple of those infamous handshakes and we leave it up to you to interpret the gesture.

Awkwardly welcoming Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to the White House

Canada‘s prime minister Justin Trudeau wanted to prove to Mr Trump in 2017 he knows a thing or two about weird handshakes.

Mr Trudeau grabbed at Mr Trump’s shoulder, bracing himself for an unsteady shaking. Mr Trump then grabbed Trudeau’s shoulder as well. In the …

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