Macron Out-Trumps Trump in Handshake Duel Before NATO Summit

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French President Emmanuel Macron out-Trumped President Donald Trump in a handshake before the NATO summit in Brussels. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Donald Trump is known for employing knuckle-crushing, testosterone-driven, arm-shuddering handshakes. But he met his match today in Emmanuel Macron.

It took the French president just six seconds to out-Trump Trump in a handshake that showed the world -- and a man three decades his senior -- that there’s a new leader on the world stage.