CNN: France’s Macron Compared Trump to Erdogan and Putin

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PLEITGEN: "Certainly, and the strange thing about it he’s completely open about it saying, yes, I did all of these things on purpose. The never-ending handshake was because he didn’t want to show any sort of weakness in front of President Trump. In fact, he compared president Trump to Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and to Vladimir Putin saying these are all leaders who see international relations as power politics, as a balancing of relation, so he felt that even in gestures he couldn’t give an inch and that’s why he did the things he did, including that never-ending handshake which he himself was quite awkward for him as well, Jake."