{"id":363089,"date":"2018-05-28T06:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-being-rejected-by-melania-to-greeting-1000-graduates-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-05-28T06:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T05:28:01","slug":"from-being-rejected-by-melania-to-greeting-1000-graduates-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-being-rejected-by-melania-to-greeting-1000-graduates-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"From being rejected by Melania to greeting 1,000+ graduates \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Donald Trump is famous for his bombastic and controversial tweets, but his hands stole the show when he recently surprised an audience by shaking hands with more than 1,000 Naval Academy graduates in Annapolis, Maryland.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The US president arrived on Friday to deliver a commencement address. However, instead of leaving immediately after the speech, he decided to stay and personally congratulate the graduates one-by-one. It took Trump around 90 minutes to complete the mammoth task.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t the first time that Trump\u2019s hands have made the news. They attracted unwanted attention during the election campaign two years ago, when Marco Rubio \u2013 one of the contenders for the White House at the time \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/344878-rubio-trump-small-hands-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> the billionaire couldn\u2019t be trusted because of his <em>\u201csmall hands.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump was quick to denounce Rubio\u2019s claim. Right in the middle of televised debates, the would-be-president firmly defended the size of his hands, and insisted that there was <em>\u201cno problem\u201d<\/em> with the size of other things either.<\/p>\n<p>Upon assuming the presidency, Trump proved that his hands are, in fact, effective in clearing the way \u2013 as he didn\u2019t hesitate to sideline the prime minister of Montenegro at a NATO meeting in Brussels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"-webkit-user-select: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/ye844js13ozy.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Nearly every world leader who has met Trump has got a taste of his <em>\u201chandshake diplomacy.\u201d<\/em> Perhaps the most unorthodox experience was reserved for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose hand Trump squeezed for at least 19 long seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The president was also particularly handsy with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. Trump decided to help Macron dispose of dandruff, all while talking about the <em>\u201cvery special relationship\u201d<\/em> their countries enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EI8fHGVSQWg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s wife Melania, on the other hand, doesn\u2019t always seem to be fond of his antics. The first lady was spotted refusing to hold her husband\u2019s hand in public and slapping him by the wrist on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/427969-trump-handshakes-graduates-melania\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is famous for his bombastic and controversial tweets, but his hands stole the show when he recently surprised an audience by shaking hands with more than 1,000 Naval Academy graduates in Annapolis, Maryland. The US president arrived on Friday to deliver a commencement address. However, instead of leaving immediately after the speech, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}