The power of the image could not have been lost on a politician as savvy as Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey: With days to go before a cliffhanger election, a Democratic president was giving the handshake-back pat to his Republican opponent's most aggressive campaigner as they prepared to embark on a tour of damage from a catastrophic storm.
For Scarbrough, Trump's particular brand of handshake (and back slap and shoulder sweeping) isn't necessarily a sign of disrespect or scuttling of protocol.
From the very first click on a web page, a "three-way handshake" (there, back, there again) ensures two computers are correctly synchronised to exchange data reliably.
Did Harbaugh show up Schwartz with the hard handshake and back slap?
Newly promoted consultants got ovations, handshakes and back slaps.
The successful start to the pressure test incited clapping, handshakes and back slaps in the war room, Hunter reported.
After Karsay ended the game by striking out Damion Easley, swinging, at 4 27 p.m., the Yankees formed a happy but restrained line for handshakes and back slaps.
When Macron tried to pat Trump's thigh, the president ignored him and didn't acknowledge the touch or reciprocate it — a marked difference from their demonstrative power-grip handshakes and back slaps during previous meetings.
The acknowledgment of this one last goal is why the Dodgers' on-field celebration was subdued, containing only the usual handshakes and back slaps of a normal victory.
Generation Zero, Bannon's delirious 2010 documentary about the decay of American ideals, features, within its first six minutes: scenes of robbery; fiery plane crashes; heavy rain; emoji-faced men with their tongues wagging at money; handshakes in back alleys; incinerated houses; the boat sail-sized dorsal fin of an approaching shark.
