r/PublicFreakout • u/RoyalChris • Feb 24 '25
cooties? 🍊 Macron puts hand on Trump’s knee and stops him from reciprocating
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Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
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u/SpeakerConfident4363 Feb 24 '25
Maybe Macron will take the statue of liberty back and re gift it to someone else.
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u/PhotoAwp Feb 24 '25
Give it to Canada. That would be funny.
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u/tdgarui Feb 24 '25
I specifically want it in Climax, Saskatchewan
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u/matt602 Feb 25 '25
Nah she's going to Dildo, Newfoundland. She deserves to have some fun after having to spend all those years in the damn NY harbor.
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u/xgodlesssaintx Feb 24 '25
Nah. They know where it’s been.
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u/HCSOThrowaway Feb 24 '25
It'd be a bold move to request its return due to irreconcilable differences as to what "liberty" means over the centuries, especially in the context of how much we've reversed our attitude towards the inscription on it.
Obviously they'd never get it back, but it'd send a message.
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u/Cadamar Feb 24 '25
Lady Liberty would look real good off the coast of Toronto, staring out towards Buffalo.
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u/PlanktonMiddle1644 Feb 24 '25
Hopefully well before the cultists topple it due to the "DEI" message. The irony that the Statue was dedicated after the civil war will surely be lost
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u/SpeakerConfident4363 Feb 24 '25
had not thought about that. But yes, at this point they are going to destroy it and cheer about it.
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u/kinghercules77 Feb 24 '25
France has nukes though, so he'll talk about how great Macron is. He only talks tough to people he perceives as weak, Trudeau made the mistake of going to Florida to reason with him. He didnt see that as diplomacy but weakness.
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u/ployonwards Feb 24 '25
The press secretary tomorrow: “I should not have to remind you that sitting next to the President is a privilege, not a right. It is a fact that the President’s hand is to remain on world leaders’ knees unless and until the President decides to remove it. President Macron’s knee is in fact the knee of America.”
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u/DreamTalon Feb 24 '25
At 3:47 am est tomorrow between Trump posting that bagels are delicious with cream cheese because of him and that AOC once bit the head off a bat on stage and caused AIDS.
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Feb 24 '25
They better have our Canadian back’s. I’m Indigenous and had to learn fucking French in my own country. They owe us.
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u/CIS-E_4ME Feb 24 '25
When you're famous, you can grab them by the papacy...
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u/Pudi2000 Feb 24 '25
Everybody is missing the real reason Trump just got teabagged, Macron wiped his booger on the orange gimp.
Please edit your comment and add this so everyone sees this.
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u/GR_IVI4XH177 Feb 24 '25
Fake or not, don’t forget that the Pope himself told Trump to chill TF out like 6 weeks ago. But the Pope is anti-Christian so we don’t have to listen to him.
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u/Either-Percentage-78 Feb 24 '25
When the Pope equated Kamala's stance on abortion with orangina's full-blown racism before the election I was even more disgusted with him.
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u/Tremulant887 Feb 25 '25
I feel like people don't care about nuance. Tow the line or "disgust" is how people describe you. Pope is (maybe was?) miles above previous ones.
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u/joeschmoagogo Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
No. She made her bed.
EDIT TO ADD: Seriously. Why are there people still thinking she is worthy is saving when she is as bad as he is?
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u/ToastyBread329 Feb 24 '25
No way this is real..
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u/Fmbounce Feb 24 '25
Jimmy Kimmel segment. Also the cut to just the hands should probably tell you it’s not real.
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u/dothebadman Feb 24 '25
It’s fake, but they took inspiration from Melania doing this numerous times.
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u/DrManhattan_DDM Feb 24 '25
You don’t need to understand French to translate that as “don’t touch me, you incredible sack of shit.”
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u/Pickleparty187 Feb 24 '25
Probably left an oily orange handprint on his pants
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u/Pudi2000 Feb 24 '25
Mfker went through 50 shades of orange during this interview. Im surprised he didn't have a stroke.
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u/fireflysparks Feb 24 '25
I don’t get why Macron would do it first though. Especially if he wasn’t comfortable with Trump reciprocating. Not defending Trump, that guy can fuck all the way off, I’m just genuinely confused by this exchange.
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u/EvolvedA Feb 24 '25
It is all about dominance. Macron wants to show he is not intimidated, no he even invades Trump's personal space. Little does he know that Trump is a pig who doesn't care and who knows to call this out by invading Macron's personal space in turn. "I have no issue with touching, now what?"
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u/rokerroker45 Feb 24 '25
I'll be honest, Trump's attempt at paying it back reads "I'm triggered," because he didn't think to do it first nor could he stop Macron from doing to him first the way Macron stopped his attempt.
Macron basically pulled Trump's little handshake move on him and Trump looked kinda goofy trying to play the trick back. Macron's move worked because Trump was clearly bothered by it.
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u/Vaperius Feb 24 '25
Macron is a lifetime politician with a practiced set of social skills and is used to world leaders generally being people that, if nothing else, understand basic social cues and customs essentially universal to all human beings.
Donald Trump is a lifetime predator with his own practiced set of social skills and is used to bullying people or invading their personal space to intentionally induce discomfort. He's also exceptionally awkward socially just in general.
Net result? Macron goes for a friendly knee touch "haha very funny"; brief just a few seconds, friendly touch, light pressure; forgetting who he is sitting next to ...and Trump returns it in the only way he knows how i.e discomforting and gross; long contact, deep touch, uncomfortably sensual.
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u/spb1 Feb 25 '25
Macron knew what he was doing and he knew Trump would do the same back and he was ready for it. Look at footage of them meeting earlier in the day, macron is ready for the handshake & grab move
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u/Enziguru Feb 25 '25
I think this started from Trump's first term where he was doing the handshake thing. Now world leaders know that he pulls this kind of shit and mess with him.
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u/Nexobe Feb 25 '25
Macron always does this with everyone.
It's part of his body language.In France, whether it's with politicians or the general public, he's always quite tactile to mark a certain form of soft domination over others.
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u/RoyalChris Feb 24 '25
Oui Oui baguette
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u/Ezziboo 🧿🤘PublicFreakout Legend 🤘🧿 Feb 24 '25
Flight of the Concords lol https://youtu.be/DzZ3EYzjzuE?si=I9DiZUKeDSQKcJES
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u/ahjaokay Feb 24 '25
Damn. Macron really makes him look old and weak. He also corrected some of Trumps false statements
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u/Insanity_Crab Feb 24 '25
I hate trump but the way he gets the last leg pat in his supporters will see this as a win. This makes him look strong to them.
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u/aluminum_man Feb 25 '25
I absolutely despise the man, but to me it looked like Macron tried his best to keep Trumps hand away and couldn’t. I am NOT saying that this made Trump look strong, but I don’t see how it made him look weak either. I understand hating everything about him and not wanting to give Trump an inch, but I’m at a loss as to how this made Trump look weak, I mean, Trump put his hand on Macron’s knee, returning the “Alpha body language bullshit”, and Macron tried his hardest to keep Trump’s hand off of his leg, but failed. It was no surprise that Trump, the convicted rapist, fought so uncomfortably to force his body on someone else.
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u/-Moonscape- Feb 25 '25
Counter point: Macron wiping his booger on trumps pants trumps anything trump did
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u/Casual_hex_ Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
Trump is now the handsy uncle no one wants to see.
Remind me, what part of ‘alpha male’ persona requires squeezing French men’s thighs?
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u/AR489 Feb 24 '25
He does it while he insults him.
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u/Work-Safe-Reddit4450 Feb 24 '25
I am just now realizing that was Fred Armisen. Haven't seen that movie in ages.
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u/marlotrot Feb 24 '25
"Thighs... touching thighs... reaching out... touching me, touching YOU... sweet orange man... good times never seems so good"
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u/FacetiousTomato Feb 24 '25
Wasn't as good as the handshake from way back.
(Macron knew Trump liked to pull people in, said fuck that, and nearly tore his hand off)
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u/mikedorty Feb 24 '25
Trudeau fucking Melania was the ultimate.
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u/aluminum_man Feb 25 '25
Don’t forget Ivanka too! I’ve heard that’s the one Trump is REALLY jealous about!
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u/ToughTry1287 Feb 25 '25
lmao wtf
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u/CTRL_ALT_SECRETE Feb 25 '25
A lot of people are saying it.
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u/headbone Feb 25 '25
A lot of really clever, clever people, you know, are saying it, so you know it must be true.
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u/bighatbenno Feb 24 '25
Everybody fucking hates him.
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u/bdigital1796 Feb 24 '25
I hate everybody that warrants his representation, that's a hell of a lot of people that I hate.
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u/camworld Feb 24 '25
Imagine the smell.
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u/MadRonnie97 Feb 24 '25
Look at Macron’s face immediately when Trump touches him lmao
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u/JehrsForBrehers Feb 24 '25
It's a power play, and Trump looks like he lost
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u/andreezy93 Feb 24 '25
I don’t like Trump. But if you do something to me and I do it back to you, then you show that it makes you uncomfortable. That just makes you look bad, a hypocrite of sorts. It’s clear you don’t follow the golden rule.
Take Trump out the picture and make it two random guys. The guy who touched the other first is the asshole in my eyes.
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u/Vaperius Feb 24 '25
It wasn't the same touch.
Macron's was friendly. Trump's was gropey.
Macron's was a light slap pat on the knee; friendly gesture, low pressure, low intensity contact.
Trump's was sustained contact, higher pressure; full envelopment of knee; sensual and therefore unwanted. Gross.
One touch is something you might do with your buddy after he says a funny joke; the other is what you do with a lover. Human social interactions have nuance and context.
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u/QueueOfPancakes Feb 25 '25
He is being an asshole, but he's being the dominant asshole. And if he was doing it to a nice person, it would make him actually an asshole, but being an asshole to an asshole doesn't make you an asshole outside of that.
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u/itsavibe- Feb 24 '25
That honestly looked like a face that’s loving the back and forth petty competition
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u/cl4ptr4p334 Feb 25 '25
The fact that he’s fighting to have his hand on his knee is so fucking weird
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u/No_Code_7800 Feb 24 '25
I really liked the "first I put a booger on your pants to show you where you belong"
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u/RebelliousInNature Feb 25 '25
Let me touch it frenchie, I’m famous you know.
That was the weirdest power struggle I’ve ever seen.
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u/cravetrain Feb 25 '25
Trump takes up the whole chair lol. Worth pointing out when he insists he’s the healthiest president that’s ever lived.
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u/randomuser2444 Feb 25 '25
Dude the insistence from trump made that extremely awkward
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u/hmclaren0715 Feb 25 '25
OMG that power struggle right there in the middle is both hilarious and embarrassing. 🤣🤦♀️
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u/haphazard_chore Feb 24 '25
Trump was first to touch macron. Macron followed up with a weird knee hold. At least in the footage I watched. Not sure why this is being edited. Don’t try me wrong, I’m not defending agent orange here, but if anything the footage I watched made macrons delayed follow-up touch kinda weird.
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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF Feb 24 '25
I remember when he did that to the Japanese PM who in turn gave Trump the look of “I’m going to break your fucking hand”
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u/justbrowsing987654 Feb 25 '25
Christ. We’re going to end up in a war over dumb shit like this aren’t we?
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u/UsefulImpact6793 Feb 25 '25
trumps hand was so tiny it was hard for Macron to get a grip on that lil thing
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u/InNeedOfDirection Feb 25 '25
You know what sucks? It doesn’t matter how he acts, who does what bullshit power move. We just have a shit show in just about every instance that’s recorded.
Stop being so fucking weird and do a god damn job.
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u/apsgreek Feb 24 '25
In no world am I a fan of DJT, but the caption on this video seems like a very wishful interpretation.
It looks like Macron is genuinely trying to be friendly with him?
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u/okamanii101 Feb 24 '25
This is so awkward omg. Why did marcon put his hand on his knee if it bothers him so much?
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u/Netflxnschill Feb 24 '25
You can literally see the struggle between the two hands as Trump tries to force his hand back on Macron’s knee. Fucker is a baby.
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u/Iamthepaulandyouaint Feb 24 '25
His tiny little hand looks like one of those back scratching sticks.
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u/ThisIsGSR Feb 24 '25
He put his hand on trump’s knee first. Weird that Macron made such a show about him reciprocating the same gesture.
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u/isthisyournacho Feb 24 '25
I don’t understand, Macron did it first? Why would he have a problem with it being done back?
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u/cathtray Feb 25 '25
Because it was for too long. Macron’s gesture was subtle, Trump’s was openly aggressive. Macron had to be defensive or appear weak.
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u/theshitstormcommeth Currently freaking out in the comments. ⚠️ Feb 24 '25
That’s not at all what this video shows.
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u/OgGardenz Feb 25 '25
It’s called handshake diplomacy or a body language battle—when world leaders subtly compete for dominance in public encounters. They use handshakes, posture, and positioning to control the optics, like making their hand more visible or adding a second hand for control. Classic power move stuff.
Posted this as a response to a comment as well
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u/IrrationalDesign Feb 24 '25
Macron grabbed Trump's hand, trump reacted by giving it a shake, then put his hand back on Macron's knee and ended with a knee slap. It's awkward, but obviously a sign of 'we' re agreeing and friendly'.
Macron didn't pull or push Trump's hand away, that'd be a stupidly undiplomatic gesture.
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u/UtahImTaller Feb 24 '25
Seems like he thinks it's funny, like he was fucking with Trump by touching his leg, then Trump did it back and he's holding back laughter.
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u/CelticDK Feb 24 '25
The fact Trump of all people tried to be stronger and you see Macron reduce strength after pinning his hand to trumps leg is funny
Bet they’ll call Trump the alpha for this
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u/khan9813 Feb 24 '25
What kind of school yard power play is going on here