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Trump shakes hands with supporters in Orlando, flouting health experts adviceLink to tweet
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"Don't shake hands" (Original Post)
Leghorn21
Mar 2020
OP
This is the same guy who stared at the eclipse after being told not to.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#2
spanone
(135,831 posts)1. I see trump shaking hands as a positive...am I a bad person?
mac56
(17,566 posts)3. Not a bad person.
But it is a contagion issue.
spanone
(135,831 posts)4. The Infector-in-Chief
tinrobot
(10,895 posts)10. I feel bad for people who have to touch him.
Greasy KFC fingers... ew.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)2. This is the same guy who stared at the eclipse after being told not to.
Karma, do your thing.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)13. ....and had unprotected sex with a porn actress.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)5. And yet he's such a germaphobe he won't even share a phone.
He really doesn't get how stuff works.
at140
(6,110 posts)6. Adopt India style greeting, Namaste!
Rorey
(8,445 posts)7. We need him to touch his face
That's when the hand shaking pays off.
BKDem
(1,733 posts)11. But...he'll smear his makeup!
WA-03 Democrat
(3,047 posts)8. And another thing, whatever you do
Dont lick small childrens hands!
You better not President Trump!
No Sir, impossible to protect you Sir! (Trump fantasy voice of how people address him)
Holy shit, hes licking kids hands and proclaiming its a cure to the hoax!
Just a little misdirection may be useful.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)9. He'll be ok. He never touches his face because ...
... hes afraid chunks will fall off if he does.
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)12. Why not use the form of greeting
that was used in Italy from 1922 to 1943; forearm raised vertically with open palm.