some awkward moments. i still find it almost impossible to watch the excruciating footage of the terrible death grip walking handshake contest where they each tried to prove possession of the bigger, stronger, longer, grabbier, pokier handshake. it was like watching an arm wrestling contest where you win by giving the other guy cooties or at least the willies. very, very awkward. there was also president trump's previous trip to france, which had its own specific kind of awkwardness. president trump so enthralled with the military parade he witnessed on that trip that he immediately came home and starting demanding that we hold a military parade for him in washington too. i mean, that's awkward on its face, but it was also awkward because the president, by all accounts, was unable to shake his fixation on this military display even in, like, obviously inappropriate settings.