The mainstream media once again proved Monday that it is hellbent on depicting Donald Trump as a bumbling fool, with some even bragging about getting ‘revenge’ on the President by doing so.
The latest example comes as Trump found himself part of a group handshake with other leaders, while in Asia, momentarily not realizing what was taking place.
Things got a bit awkward as Pres. Trump posed with world leaders for a group handshake at the beginning of the ASEAN summit in the Philippines. https://t.co/cZW0wVwCLT pic.twitter.com/0edOdDCHYh
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 13, 2017
Donald Trump gets confused by the group handshake at Asean | https://t.co/nJkKVWjuEE
— ZA News (@ZABulletin) November 13, 2017
Despite the entirely innocuous incident, the media played it up, suggesting that the President was ‘grimacing’ or looking disgusted with what was happening.
Trump grimaces through ‘ASEAN handshake’ with world leaders in Manila https://t.co/973COuFB6D pic.twitter.com/ezmtlQXmg9
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 13, 2017
Social media mocks photo of Trump grimacing during handshake with world leaders https://t.co/jlJBB5vRJj pic.twitter.com/y4sjt5jbue
— The Hill (@thehill) November 13, 2017
The Washington Post wrote:
“In ways both subtle and stark, Trump’s awkward grimace reveals the messy reality of high-stakes geopolitics that an airbrushed official portrait of the ASEAN “family” would gloss over.”
“Just take a look down the line of leaders and their expressions…Maybe we’re reading too much into all of it, but photos like these can help remind us that there are different motivations and different levels of comfort on the world stage at play behind the scenes.” the piece continued.