That handshake is Trump’s version of “pull my finger”.

Coincidentally, as soon as I saw that in the BBC, the handshake was the first thing I noticed. Trudeau played it well

Someone pass Trudeau the following note: DON’T LEAVE US WITH THIS MONSTER. TAKE US WITH YOU. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’S LIKE. OH GOD, DON’T GO.

Thank you.

JT looks so resigned to his fate.

Very clever move on the part of the PM. He took over that moment.

I’ve never met anyone in real life who does that pat thing. I think if it happened to me I’d jerk away in consternation.

It makes Ivanka uncomfortable.

Something to remind everyone: Trudeau is an accomplished boxer.

Advanced moose scouts are already infiltrating across the border.

They need to make fun of it on SNL for him to stop.

I’m sure Trudeau decided that he would tear a tricep muscle if he had to just to avoid Donny’s little playground game.

That’s freaking great. Trudeau looked like he put his whole body into resisting the “Trump Tug”. I wonder if he had some sort of training regimen before the trip with an aikido master. That’s what a well-prepared world leader looks like, as opposed to a fly-by-pants leader that lacks the sense to leave a public…

Shinto Abe? That should be Shinzo Abe. Shinto is a Japanese religion.

For a self proclaimed germaphobe 45 likes to touch people’s hands.

Thirst.

Can we please get a Feinberg deep dive on this? Like interviews with people he’s done this to, psychoanalysis, speculation about when/why he developed this tactic, etc. I can’t believe WaPo beat her to this in the first place.

People keep saying, “Trump doesn’t know how to shake hands,” but it’s more than that — Trump is a clueless buffoon, and I guarantee that he read somewhere that pulling that kind of idiotic shit when someone shakes your hand is some kind of “power move”. Being a fucking moron with no external locus of self-regard, he…

which involves him yanking the other person’s arm and shaking it for a several beats longer than expected—in public meetings with Vice President Mike Pence, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and, most recently, on Japanese Prime Minister Shinto Abe.

“This sums up the whole of my administration”

This. Is. Hilarious.