Melania brushes away Trump's attempt to hold her hand
The recent incident happened when the couple disembarked from Air Force One at Tel Aviv.
JERUSALEM (Daily Dunya) - US president Donald Trump and his Slovenian-born wife Melania have always been in headlines for their quite obscure and weird moments shared together in public.
The recent incident happened when the couple disembarked from Air Force One at Tel Aviv on Monday to begin their visit to Israel.
Trump was walking ahead of Melania along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, when he let out his hand towards his wife in an attempt to hold it.
However; Melania who was in no mood to give a positive response, slapped her husband’s hand away and kept walking.
Several such incidents have also happened in the past raising eyebrows about the state of their relationship.
Earlier, the first lady had to nudge the President to remind him to put his hand on his heart for the US national anthem.
Later, putting his hand against one of the most sacred sites in Judaism, Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall in the disputed city of Jerusalem.
Wearing a black skullcap, he paused in front of the holiest site where Jews can pray, then placed what appeared to be a written prayer or note between its stones, as is custom.
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Trump was not accompanied by any Israeli leaders during the hugely symbolic visit.
Allowing them to do so could have led to accusations that Washington was implicitly recognising Israel’s unilateral claim of sovereignty over the site, which would break with years of US and international precedent.
Security was tight, with the usually bustling Old City, where the Western Wall is located, essentially on lockdown and the plaza leading to the site cleared.
Trump wrote "This was a great honor -- peace!" before signing his name in the wall’s guest book.
--- with inputs from AFP.
