On Piers Morgan Live Wednesday, Morgan featured his interview with Donald Trump in which the two discussed the hot topics of the day, including Obama’s notorious handshake with Raul Castro at the funeral service of Nelson Mandela. When Morgan asked Trump if he disapproved of Obama’s “very deliberate” handshake with the communist dictator, Trump replied, no, but that Obama “always seems to bow to foreign leaders.”
Here’s the exchange:
Morgan: So what do you make of all this? The president in hot water on two counts, all over the papers today and the TV, for first of all, this handshake, very deliberate, with Raul Castro, the Cuban President. Are you supportive of that or are you against it?
Trump: Well, you know, you shake hands with somebody, but he always seems to bow to foreign leaders. Now, I don’t see any reason to bow in this case, but he bows...
I don't view it as very serious. He gave the wife a double kiss, that’s the European version, as you know better than anybody. But I don’ t make a big thing out of it. There’s certainly nothing wrong with shaking hands.
Before the Castro handshake, President Obama’s most high-profile act of deference to a foreign leader was his bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, which of course the White House officially denied.



