Emmanuel Macron: my handshake with Trump was ‘a moment of truth’

• Emmanuel Macron: my handshake with Trump was ‘a moment of truth’

• As handshakes go, it was unusually intense: a fierce and protracted mano, a mano of white knuckles, crunched bones, tightened jaws and fixed smiles that sent the internet and the world’s media into a spin.

  It was also, Emmanuel Macron has revealed, entirely intentional. At his first major appearance on the world stage, the 39-year-old French president displayed a relaxed confidence and steely purpose that altogether belied his youth and inexperience.

French president says his white-knuckle prolonged handshake with US counterpart was designed to show he’s no pushover

 

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