Is DT hand yanking a new development?

[pat_k]

The incidents of DT hand yanking Pence, Gorsuch, and Abe are the first I heard of him doing this. When I saw the Gorsuch hand yank, I wondered if it could be a symptom of brain damage (looked to me like he didn't have control over letting go).

Are there previous examples of DT on tape hand yanking? Just wondering. If it's new, perhaps he actually did have a stroke or something recently.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I've read that he's been doing that for years.

Apparently it's a dominance thing.

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140575/donald-trumps-power-handshakes-weird-hell

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/02/romney-trump-handshake.html

It’s well known that Donald Trump, a germaphobe, doesn’t like shaking hands. Less well known is that when forced to shake hands, Trump has a very specific technique, one that various handshake websites refer to as “the pull in.” Once Trump latches onto your hand, he will vigorously — here’s where the name comes in — pull you in close to his body, as if your arm is the rope in a game of tug-of-war. Presumably some type of power-executive move Trump uses to demonstrate dominance over his handshaking partners, the pull-in is Trump’s go-to handshake, regardless of whose hand he’s shaking.

[pat_k]

5. Thanks for the link! As an intentional act, truly bizarre.

When he yanks he looks like he's lost control of his arm. To realize he's doing this intentionally... very, very, strange.

It's clear he's mentally ill. I guess jerking people around by the arm as a show of power is just another symptom.

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. Didn't Hitler do that with some of his generals? (nm)

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Okaaaayyy.....

Trying to figure out what public figure would be willing to stuff a fake hand up his sleeve just for the fun of watching Trump's face as he yanks it off . . .




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[pat_k]

6. Love it! We've gotta come up with someone to recruit!

[NBachers]

11. OK - That's the laugh of the night. It's late. Thank you for giving me a good note to go to bed on!

[Skittles]

4. it's the symptom of a man who is overcompensating

this is a guy trying to prove he is more powerful, more masculine - he is pathetic

[pfitz59]

7. Here's a nifty Trump handshake tutorial

[StarryNite]

9. Watching him do that

is very disturbing.

[StarryNite]

8. He's a freak

Yanking men and groping women. He's a freak that one.

[pat_k]

10. A psychopathic, malignant, narcissistic bully.

I don't know why, with all his other lunacies, I find the hand yanking so off the scale strange. It is not just aggressive. It is... I don't know... just utterly bizarre.