Donald Trump greeted other world leaders in the weirdest way at the G-20
President Donald Trump ditched his usual bizarre and domineering handshaking technique during a photo session at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday.
Instead, Trump initiated a strange three-way fist bump with the prime ministers of Japan (Shinzo Abe) and India (Narendra Modi) ahead of their trilateral talks.
Check out how it went down here:
President Trump meets with Prime Ministers Modi and Abe. #G20pic.twitter.com/VgDuWjg3eR
— The Hill (@thehill) June 28, 2019
The awkward gesture was “an example of a good way Trump is upsetting the global order,” David Nakamura, a reporter for The Washington Post, tweeted.
Trump in 2017 greeted Abe with a handshake that seemingly went on forever:
Ouch! Trump and Japanese PM Shinzō Abe’s EPIC handshake. pic.twitter.com/gtX3mCwii8
— Eddie Du (@Edourdoo) February 11, 2017
And, earlier this month, he was forced to deny fist-bumping Queen Elizabeth II during his state visit to the United Kingdom after this image of the pair went viral:
Trump, a notorious germaphobe, has called the handshake “barbaric.” “You catch colds, you catch flu ... You catch all sorts of things,” he reportedly said in 1999.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
