Watch weirdly long handshake between President Trump and French President Macron

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shook arms in an oddly lengthy handshake that lasted about 26 seconds.

The handshake, which began in a conventional kind, progressively was an arm-wrestling grip.

The bizarrely lengthy greeting happened this week as world leaders gathered in Egypt to rejoice the peace deal between Israel and Hamas that Trump helped dealer.

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President Donald Trump greets French President Emmanuel Macron throughout a summit of European and Center Japanese leaders on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Evan Vucci – Pool/Getty Pictures)

Trump and Macron shared a marathon handshake for about 28 seconds earlier in 2017 whereas Trump was visiting France.

That handshake equally advanced from one grip to a different midway by.

Throughout a small a part of the particularly long handshakeTrump concurrently held Macron with one hand and Macron’s spouse with the opposite.

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President Donald Trump (2nd from proper) shakes arms with French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd from left) and his spouse Brigitte Macron (L), subsequent to first woman Melania Trump, in the course of the annual army parade on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 14, 2017. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/POOL/AFP/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

The 2 shared a considerable, however considerably shorter, handshake barely earlier in 2017, which Macron later commented on.

“My handshake with him isn’t harmless, it isn’t the be-all and end-all of a coverage, however a second of reality,” Macron famous, in response to a Google translation of a French-language quote reported by Le Journal du Dimanche.

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President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shake arms earlier than a working lunch, on the residence of the US ambassador, on the sidelines of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Group) summit in Brussels, on Could 25, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

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“We should present that we’ll not make small concessions, even symbolic ones, however we should not overhype something both,” Macron mentioned, in response to the report.