Watch the oddly long handshake between President Trump and French President Macron
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U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shook hands in a strangely long handshake that lasted about 26 seconds.
The handshake, which started out in a traditional form, transformed into an arm-wrestling type grip in the process.
The oddly lengthy greeting took place this week as world leaders converged in Egypt to mark the peace deal between Israel and Hamas that Trump helped broker.
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President Donald Trump greets French President Emmanuel Macron during a summit of European and Middle East leaders October 13, 2025 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Evan Vucci – Piscine/Getty Images)
Trump and Macron previously shared a marathon handshake lasting about 28 seconds in 2017, when Trump was visiting France.
This handshake also evolved from one hold to another halfway through.
During a small part of the particularly long handshakeTrump simultaneously held Macron in one hand and Macron’s wife in the other.
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President Donald Trump (2nd right) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd left) and his wife Brigitte Macron (left), alongside first lady Melania Trump, during the annual Bastille Day military parade on Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 14, 2017. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/POOL/AFP/AFP via Getty Images)
The two men shared a substantial, but significantly shorter, handshake earlier in 2017, which Macron later commented on.
“My handshake with him is not innocent, it is not the purpose of a policy, but a moment of truth,” Macron said, according to a Google translation of a French quote reported by The Sunday Journal.
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President Donald Trump (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) shake hands before a working lunch at the US ambassador’s residence on the sidelines of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit in Brussels on May 25, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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“We must show that we will not make small concessions, even symbolic ones, but we must not exaggerate anything either,” Macron said, according to the report.
