Did Melania Trump avoid holding hands with her husband for second day in a row?
For a second day in a row people are talking about Melania Trump’s hands — specifically, whether she’s holding her husband’s hand or not.
On Monday, as the Trumps arrived at Tel Aviv airport to kick off a two-day trip to Israel, cameras caught FLOTUS swatting her husband’s hand away as he tried to hold hers.
It was a flick of the wrist for all the world to see. Stating the obvious: No one but her can know what was going on in that moment, now gone viral for better or worse.
“Ouch,” Israeli publication Haaretz wrote on its official Twitter account, along with a slow motion clip of the moment.
Owwwwwwwwwwwwch.
OUCHhttps://t.co/XaPL1AbCm5 pic.twitter.com/zpZGkQxDFP
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 22, 2017
Melania Trump Swats Donald Away When He Tries To Hold Her Hand
— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) May 22, 2017
I'm shocked, she was able to hit his tiny little hand on the first swat.
Melania swats away Donald's hand in latest viral misery from Trumpland https://t.co/4dM4uBMR0O pic.twitter.com/4XFNEFzzXv
— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) May 22, 2017
Then, with that scene still playing in people’s minds — and with some people complaining about why the moment got so much attention – the first lady appeared to diss her husband again on Tuesday as they arrived in Italy.
As the two stood at the top of the stairs of Air Force One for their requisite “we’re here” photo op, the president put his hand out to take hers before they descended.
But she pulled her hand away and brushed it through her hair in one single, graceful motion.
Left. Him. Hangin’.
She was so smooth with it this time tho pic.twitter.com/ZEb5F2kezd
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 23, 2017
Melania Trump with the casual 'NOPE. Still not touching you' move.
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) May 23, 2017
pic.twitter.com/Hp1Kf0VXuu
Melania Trump just swatted away Donald Trump's hand in public—again https://t.co/5KEaWbTKln pic.twitter.com/sgBJh7mFgl
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) May 23, 2017
Intentional? Accidental?
Only her manicurist may know for sure.