Donald Trump Assembly His Handshake Match Goes Viral

[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump, identified for his agency handshakes, has gone viral on TikTok after receiving a dominating handshake from the king of the Netherlands.

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima met Trump at a NATO Summit in The Hague on June 24.

Máxima's personal response to Trump beforehand prompted a stir after some felt she had mocked the president's mouth actions.

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands posing on the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague on June 24. U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands posing on the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague on June 24. Haiyun Jiang-Pool/Getty Photographs Why It Issues The Dutch king's response to Trump has additionally gone viral after it was in comparison with previous moments when the U.S. president handled different world leaders to a commanding handshake. French President Emmanuel Macron and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are amongst world leaders who've beforehand tried to beat Trump at his personal sport.

Consultants have opined for years on the technique behind Trump's handshake approach, with Florin Dolcos, a psychology professor on the College of Illinois, telling the Huffington Publish in 2017: "It goes right down to asserting dominance. Why he desires to do this? I do not know. It seems, to me, like he's attempting too arduous."

What To Know A video of the Dutch king showing to yank Trump's hand has acquired 4.2 million views and 400,000 likes since being posted on TikTok final week.

The footage begins with a sequence of Trump's previous handshakes with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Neil Gorsuch and then-U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

The powerful handshakes sometimes contain Trump yanking the opposite particular person's hand towards his physique, typically pulling them off steadiness within the course of.

Willem-Alexander seems to have come ready, nonetheless. He managed to drag Trump's hand towards him, replicating the president's approach.

The Dutch king's handshake with Trump got here on the identical day that the queen prompted a stir by showing to mock the U.S. president.

Footage of the second has appeared on X, previously Twitter, with one consumer writing, "Queen Maxima mimicking Trump's mouth actions actually obtained me."

What Folks Are Saying The TikTok video has acquired greater than 2,000 feedback, with one consumer writing: "Think about having to have a dominate handshake to really feel highly effective."

One other wrote: "He understood the project."

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