A president long associated with bone-crushing handshakes arrived at the G7 summit in France looking anything but dominant, and the world is watching closely to see what that might mean.
Donald Trump, who turned 80 on 14 June, landed at Geneva airport on 15 June before travelling to Évian-les-Bains for the 52nd G7 summit, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Footage of the pair's bilateral meeting that day prompted immediate commentary online and across media. Where previous Trump–Macron encounters had been defined by white-knuckled, marathon grips, each man visibly refusing to yield, observers this time described Trump's demeanour as noticeably subdued. The interaction arrived against a backdrop of months of accumulating concern over the president's physical condition, concerns that a White House physician's memo released just days before the summit has done little to fully extinguish.
