French President Emmanuel Macron is on a three-day state visit to the United States and was welcomed to the White House by US President Joe Biden. The meeting’s most pressing agenda was the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as well as US subsidies to European countries, which the French president described as “super aggressive”. The leaders also celebrated 200 years of US-French relations.
However, US President Joe Biden has been made fun of online after a long, tight grip on French President Emmanuel Macron’s hand. In a video circulating the internet, the handshake lasted about 40 seconds.
The video has been widely shared on Twitter.
????The handshake between Biden and Macron somehow continued, but what did observers notice? pic.twitter.com/j9ux7Pq3p7
— J. Malkova??♥️ (@CanadianKitty1) December 2, 2022
The tweets have garnered thousands of views and hundreds of likes. Several users commented on the video, labeling it “uncomfortable”.
One user wrote, “Macron handled it like a champ, but Biden persisted. He kept forgetting what he was doing there.”
“Isn’t that a Masonic handshake?” said another.
A third person said, “Biden forgot he was doing at the moment.”
According to a report in The Telegraph, Mr Biden also mispronounced Mr Macron’s name as “Macrone”, which rhymed with “alone”.
US President and First Lady Jill Biden held a lavish, star-studded state dinner at the White House, with music by Jon Batiste and Chardonnay from the Napa Valley, in honor of French President Macron and his wife, Brigitte, according to a report in Reuters .
It was further added that Mr Biden said: “Tonight we celebrate the lasting alliance between France and the United States. Vive la France and God bless America.” Macron added that the two countries stem from “the same values” of “we, the people”.
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