Trump spent a good few minutes last night reading the nation a speech written by his son-in-law, in which he lectured the country on covering their mouths when they cough and sneeze and making sure to keep their physical contact to a minimum so as not to continue spreading the deadly new virus that will very likely serve as the end of his reign of terror.
However, over the course of this whole thing, Donald hasn’t been all that great about following his own advice. He and his newest coronavirus czar (which translates to “scapegoat for when everything inevitably goes to hell”) Mike Pence have been adamant about continuing their “duties” as politicians by closely interacting with individuals and shaking hands.
That is, up until Trump finally found himself exposed to COVID-19 about a million times. Now it seems that Donald is getting a bit more cautious about keeping his hands to himself before he finds himself quarantined with Nancy Pelosi taking his spot in the Oval Office.
While Pence declared in an interview this morning that he was still shaking hands with people, Trump let the nation know that he’s a bit more cautious these days during a press conference with Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar when he declined the handshake greeting that he claimed he would continue just days ago and instead opted for a rather awkward attempt at an Eastern style bow. And evidently he’s feeling pretty weird about it.
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“Well, we didn’t shake hands today,” Trump told reporters during the presser today. “We looked at each other and we said, ‘what are we gonna do?’ Sort of a weird feeling.”
“Yeah, we did this,” Trump explained as he and Varadkar each pressed their hands together and bowed forward slightly.
Mtg Irish PM Varadkar, Trump said they (Indians) didn’t shake hands. 🙏🏽
Trump: “I just got back from India, & I didn’t shake any hands there. It was v easy because they go like this 🙏🏽 & Japan goes like this [bows]. They were ahead of the curve.” #CoronavirusPandemic pic.twitter.com/mw2Av12buX— Kuljeet Singh Chahal (@kuljeetschahal) March 12, 2020
He went on to explain that his recent trip to India helped encourage the idea of a bow in lieu of a handshake.
Honestly, maybe this is the one halfway decent thing to come out of this catastrophic pandemic — at least Donald Trump is keeping his damn hands to himself.
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