Dr. Jack Brown 
1 of 31/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4692: A Crucial Set of Behavior Tells Conveyed by Donald Trump's Handshake #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #EmotionalIntelligence #BehaviorAnalysis #NonverbalCommunication
2 of 31/ Last week, to no one's surprise, Donald Trump used CNN's "Town Hall" as a 70 minute infomercial, reiterating his Fascist stances.
3 of 31/ Captured in the above image, at the conclusion of the approximately 70 minute event, Donald Trump initiated a handshake with the moderator, Kaitlan Collins.
4 of 31/ The body language of handshaking is often grossly oversimplified — and can truly fill a book. Donald Trump has several types of handshakes. What follows is a body language analysis of a crucial characteristic of one of Donald Trump's more common handshake variations.
5 of 31/ Note how Trump pulls the hand of Ms. Collins towards him — in close proximity to his torso. Trump exhibits this same characteristic when shaking hands with all genders — but much more often — and with other additional behaviors with women.
6 of 31/ This sub-behavior of pulling the other person's hand is a dominance display. Men who *routinely* pull another person's hand close to their torso during handshaking are signaling an extremely high preponderance of Narcissist Personality Disorder.
7 of 31/ Here, Trump shakes James Comey's hand in 2017, three days after Trump's Inauguration — pulling the taller man's hand close to his torso.
8 of 31/ Note also how Trump also touches Comey on Comey's shoulder/upper back. This is a classic false affection.
9 of 31/ It's one thing if you know someone well (AND affection has been established), but such a relationship is not true in most political contexts and it's certainly not true between Trump and Comey.
This adjunct behavior is another classic dominance display.
10 of 31/ In this moment, Trump shakes-pulls Neil Gorsuch's hand in this same manner on 10 April 2017, just after Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.
11 of 31/ Trump pulled Gorsuch (mildly-to-moderately) physically off-balance during this narcissistic, dominance display.
12 of 31/ Trump shook Boris Johnson's hand in a similar pulling-yanking Johnson's hand in this close-to-his-torso manner at the UN in the month prior to Johnson becoming Prime Minister.
13 of 31/ Note also how Trump elevates Johnson's arm. This weakens Johnson's position grip and puts Trump in more control.
14 of 31/ Trump even uses both of his arms to do so. Trump doesn't have the arm strength to lift most other people's hand-arm with his hand on top (if he did, this would give him an even greater dominance-control), so he nearly always has his hand on the bottom.
15 of 31/Now let's go back and look at Donald Trump's handshake with Kaitlan Collins at the end of CNN's recent "Town Hall" event in more detail (and his handshakes with other women).
16 of 31/ Compare the angle of extension of both Trump's and Collin's elbows. Collin's is nearly straight (~170º) while Trump's is considerably bent (~115º).
17 of 31/ Trump is pulling Collin's arm-hand close to his torso. He's also weakening her grip (and demonstrating his dominance) by elevating her arm-hand.
18 of 31/ Note how in this moment, when Trump is shaking then Prime Minister Theresa May's hand, he's again, pulling her hand close to his torso. Notice also, Trump's bending the then Prime Minister's wrist.
19 of 31/ This is not a gentle hand-holding which men often exhibited toward women from yesteryear — this is a tight grip with forced flexion of Theresa May's wrist.
20 of 31/ This wrist-bending is a sometimes-additional component of a Narcissistic, power-display handshake. Forced bending the wrist further subordinates the other person, and, depending on the other person's age, angle of wrist, force applied, etc., is often painful.
21 of 31/ Here, Trump shakes hands with then German Chancellor, Angela Merkel — pulling her arm to his torso (as he did with James Comey [above] and many others again displays shoulder touching-false affection-dominance adjunct).
Deb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@DrJackBrown is any of this conscious?
Nia Molinari@DrJackBrown He's so fkkn vile.
Pablo Martini@DrJackBrown a great set of manipulation images, as a salesman understanding body language was vital in reading what was going on, but reading many books on sales Mainly (early days) American Elmer Wheeler into the now Tack Organisation he may well have been in the same book shop? Covering his social inadequacies?
Originally I thought tRump was as they describe it these days "on the spectrum" it seems he's way more mixed up?
It's a shame our politicians don't have to undergo an in depth psychology exam?
Before they are set free to mess up in the real world big time!
BTW my early working life was as a welder so I had a firm handshake which I had to control!
Originally I thought tRump was as they describe it these days "on the spectrum" it seems he's way more mixed up?
It's a shame our politicians don't have to undergo an in depth psychology exam?
Before they are set free to mess up in the real world big time!
BTW my early working life was as a welder so I had a firm handshake which I had to control!