President Donald Trump greets France's President Emmanuel Macron during a summit of European and Middle Eastern leaders on Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images)
Trump and Macron previously shared an approximately 28-second marathon handshake back in 2017 while Trump was visiting France.
That handshake similarly evolved from one grip into another midway through.
During a small part of the peculiarly protracted handshake, Trump was simultaneously holding Macron with one hand and Macron's wife with the other.
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President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shake hands ahead of a working lunch, at the US ambassador's residence, on the sidelines of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, in Brussels, on May 25, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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"We must show that we will not make small concessions, even symbolic ones, but we must not overhype anything either," Macron said, according to the report.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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