The recent \u2018hand jiu-jitsu\u2019 with Keir Starmer is just the latest awkward exchange between the US president and world leaders<\/p>\n
As Keir Starmer handed Donald Trump his unprecedented invitation from King Charles \u2013 a second state visit \u2013 he grasped the US president chummily by the shoulder, more than once.<\/p>\n
Starmer was skating a tricky line, between matey familiarity and patronising reassurance, which must have been tutored, as he\u2019s not a tactile man. Trump\u2019s body language looked completely untaught, because nobody could teach this. The man has always been incredibly idiosyncratic.<\/p>\n
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