Revealed: the 'real' reason why Donald Trump and Theresa May held hands - and it's not what you think

[webfact]

Revealed: the 'real' reason why Donald Trump and Theresa May held hands - and it's not what you think

Robert Mendick, chief reporter 

Peter Dominiczak, political editor 

 

So it wasn’t necessarily an affectionate holding of hands after all

 

WASHINGTON: -- It has emerged that Theresa May was only photographed hand in hand with Donald Trump - because, bizarre as it sounds, the president may have a fear of slopes and needed a soothing arm to negotiate a downhill stretch of path.

 

The image of the pair holding hands was beamed around the world, to the delight of supporters of the new President but to the consternation of those - many of them in the UK - far less keen on Mr Trump.

 

But Government sources in Washington DC were suggesting that the hand-holding was not as a result of a deep and lasting friendship after all.

 

Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/28/revealed-real-reason-donald-trump-theresa-may-held-hands-not/

 

-- The Telegraph 2017-01-30

[Richard W]

It's a relief to hear she wasn't merely restraining a wandering hand.

[ezzra]

 

Could it be that Trump just wanted to make sure May will not run in away sheer fright  after he would confide in her about his plans to rule the world?......

[JAG]

"Fear of...."

 

Oh the temptation to revisit that Jeremey Clarkson/Top Gear thread from a couple of years ago!

???

Edited January 29, 2017 by JAG

[eddie61]

She was making sure his hand was in her hand not on her "loveable baby cat"

[Stargeezr]

They were holding hands to keep from punching each other.

  Leaders may sometimes be friendly to another, but to be real

friends, well that takes lots of time, and these two are new.

  I like that reason that one of them needed a helping hand.

Geezer

[SaintLouisBlues]

1 minute ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

They were holding hands to keep from punching each other.

As the great diplomatist Lord Palmerston said " We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies "

[Lupatria]

And in the background the Georgia Satellites played their hit:

"she said don't give me no lines and keep your hands to yourself..." 

[lemonjelly]

Looks like he's giving her palm a tickle 

[sead]

That was just an gentleman holding her hand while she walked down the stairs.

[zaphod reborn]

A true leader would have given him a good shove.  Holding hands is a sign of weakness.

[yardrunner]

11 minutes ago, sead said:

That was just an gentleman holding her hand while she walked down the stairs.

Oh it wasn't Donald Trump then 

[Srikcir]

He went for a pu**y grope but wearing high heels she began to slip and all Trump got was her hand.

I heard this explanation from someone who got it third-hand from someone else who saw it on the internet - must be true.

[yardrunner]

2 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

He went for a pu**y grope but wearing high heels she began to slip and all Trump got was her hand.

I heard this explanation from someone who got it third-hand from someone else who saw it on the internet - must be true.

oh that is the alternative truth is it

[The man from udon]

More like she had just given trump a Monica lewenski....I thought every president was fit as a fiddle and jogged every morning.

[IAMHERE]

Donald needs a hand to hold unto while going down slopes? Who is going to hold his hand on the way down Dante's Inferno ?

 

It looks as though the US is going to become more like the bad guy the rest of the world thinks it is; in many ways this is good. For way too long 'America First' has only been a jingle.

Edited January 30, 2017 by IAMHERE
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[Prbkk]

Has she commented on the size of the hand?

[ddavidovsky]

Carefully planned PR coup by Trump's team. Do you think they walked down that slope by chance?

[chilli42]

Wonder how he gets off Airforce One?

[IMA_FARANG]

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Wonder how he gets off Air force One?

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That was Gerry Ford that stumbled on the departure ramp on Air Force One.

The same President who hooked a drive on  the Golf course into a crowd and hit a grandmother in the watching crowd.

[Dagnabbit]

"Sources in Washington DC" - always a sign of fake news those unnamed DC sources...

[connda]

Just an observation, but articles like this article from the Telegraph really do border on the type of tabloid journalism that rags like the National Enquirer engaged in.  And then major newspapers and news outlets wonder why they are losing readership and market share?  It might be that readers who are looking for substance in the realm of geo-politics are now pretty well put off by this type of reporting and have found more substantive journalism elsewhere such as in the Foreign Affairs magazine published by the CFR..  Would members and the followers of the Council on Foreign  Relations care why Trump and May are holding hands?  Personally I doubt it.  I don't.  I'd say that we are much more interested in the outcome of their discussions and meetings and what it means to future US/Germany/EU foreign policy.  I'd much rather see some real substance to journalism and less fluff.  But, this is simply my opinion.

[silent]

2 hours ago, sead said:

That was just an gentleman holding her hand while she walked down the stairs.

It's just that a female doesn't get to that level without anticipating something like a quickie snatch and grab behind a kind gesture from the President of the United States of America.while out of view for a second.

[SaintLouisBlues]

Just now, silent said:

It's just that a female doesn't get to that level without anticipating something like a quickie snatch and grab behind a kind gesture from the President of the United States of America.while out of view for a second.

"snatch" in particular

[Basil B]

Hope one day some woman will stand up to that grouping perv... and crack his nuts.

 

Another reason to cancel the planed State visit to the UK, or at least appoint a lesser Royal to host it, let him try getting his hands on Prince Charles's crown jewels... 

 

Quote

Calls to stop President Trump's state visit to UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38788388

 

The Petition...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928/

Already nearly a million signatories

Edited January 30, 2017 by Basil B

[ballpoint]

In an abrupt reversal, the pussy was clutching at May.

[Chicog]

2 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

In an abrupt reversal, the pussy was clutching at May.

So technically, she was "grabbed by the pussy" then.

[elgordo38]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

So it wasn’t necessarily an affectionate holding of hands after all

These politicians are all in bed together and are way past the holding hands stage. 

[Lupatria]

4 hours ago, sead said:

That was just an gentleman holding her hand while she walked down the stairs.

Is the guy in the black coat the one you named a "gentleman" in your post?

 

[dunroaming]

Disturbing to hear that Trump has a fear of slopes as he is on a very slippery one at the moment.