{"id":5198,"date":"2025-04-27T03:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2025-04-27T03:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:12:22","slug":"more-handshakes-maqueron-meets-donald-trump-at-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"More handshakes? Maqueron meets Donald Trump at the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump and French President Maqueron are once again engaged in a handshake battle at the Vatican as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis, the Daily Beast, the New York Post and other media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast said Maqueron joined Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskiy in a CNN CNN report of Francis&#8217;s funeral before they began a brief meeting, he gave Zelenskiy a warm hug and handshake, but left Donald Trump&#8217;s outstretched hand alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5199 aligncenter\" title=\"dccbe77ffe6cf72089975a8cdd3c348au1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dccbe77ffe6cf72089975a8cdd3c348au1.png\" alt=\"dccbe77ffe6cf72089975a8cdd3c348au1\" width=\"403\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dccbe77ffe6cf72089975a8cdd3c348au1.png 403w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dccbe77ffe6cf72089975a8cdd3c348au1-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><br \/>\nMaqueron (right) and Donald Trump do not shake hands before Donald Trump (left) and Zelenskiy (center) meet. A screenshot of the scene<\/p>\n<p>However, at the funeral mass on the 26th, Donald Trump and Maqueron finally exchanged a handshake, apparently at the insistence of Donald Trump&#8217;s wife, Melanya, according to the Daily Beast. The New York Post described the two men shaking hands for a long and vigorous time, but did not talk to each other during the handshake. The footage shows Donald Trump turning to Finnish President Stubb before the end of his handshake with Maqueron.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"pic-con\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5200 aligncenter\" title=\"158297bd84e62e44e5811800f2c792e3u1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/158297bd84e62e44e5811800f2c792e3u1.png\" alt=\"158297bd84e62e44e5811800f2c792e3u1\" width=\"390\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/158297bd84e62e44e5811800f2c792e3u1.png 390w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/158297bd84e62e44e5811800f2c792e3u1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/i><br \/>\nDonald Trump (right) shakes hands with Maqueron (left) at a funeral mass. Photo: US media<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeast Daily\u201d mentioned that, but this\u201cHandshake exchange\u201d or caused discussion on the internet. Donald Trump&#8217;s critics insist that Maqueron ignored Donald Trump, while Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters insist that Donald Trump snubbed Maqueron.<\/p>\n<p>But Zelenskiy appears to be completely unaffected, the report said. \u201cIt was a very symbolic meeting,\u201d he later wrote on social media platform X. \u201cIf a common outcome can be achieved, it has the potential to be historic.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Beast, Donald Trump and Maqueron have a long history of unique greetings. The last time the two met at the White House, in February, there were hugs, gnashing-of-teeth handshakes and back pats. The\u201cHandshake war\u201d between the two men can be traced back to their first formal meeting at a NATO summit in 2017. Maqueron shook his hand so hard that his knuckles turned white and he had to twist his wrist twice to break free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; US President Donald Trump and French President Maqueron are once again engaged in a handshake battle at the Vatican as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis, the Daily&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,257],"tags":[350,797,2233,2231,1447,2232],"views":380,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}