Would you shake Trump's hand knowing where it has been?

Would you shake Trump’s hand knowing where all it has been?

Perhaps this is why Hillary did not shake it the other night!

Shake it? No. Break it? Yes.

I wouldn’t shake his hand because he’s Donald Trump.

I know of one poster who definitely would not.

Back in the 1800’s, there was a practice called cutting, which meant to look directly at a person, and yet to refuse to acknowledge their existence. It was used to punish social transgressors, and by all accounts was devastating.

I doubt that it would have too much of an effect on Trump. Too subtle.

I don’t get it. Where has it been? Dude is supposed to be OCD about washing his hands. He eats pizza and fried chicken with utensils. Utensils!!!

As Ravenman points out, Trump is a known germophobe, so the potential for his hand to be a vector for dangerous pathogens is low. OTOH, as JohnT reminds us, we know that where it’s been is on the end of Donald Trump, which is a splendid reason for declining to shake it.

I’d give Trump a fake handshake. Offer him my hand, and then pull it away at the last second.

Too slow. :smiley:

And then I’d do the “what’s that on your tie” trick and ding him one on the nose.

I’d make a show of putting on double stacked medical surgical gloves before shaking his hand.

The only problematic location where Trump’s hands have been is attached to the rest of Trump.

To argue, even jokingly, about how there’s something wrong with Trump’s hands because he used them to grope women is to imply that the women were the source of the problem. They weren’t; they were the victims. The moral stain was completely contained within Trump the whole time.

A few years ago at work, a woman came in and was seated in the waiting area for a while.

When she left, an employee made a big show of spraying the chair down with disinfectant while everyone else guffawed.

Nobody would let me in on the joke, and a few of the women turned beet red when I asked.

I don’t think he could get his short fingers around my hand.

I’d shake his hand after shitting and wiping but not washing my hands.

I always like it when a baby’s hand wraps itself around 1 of my fingers. I imagine this would just be a more awkward version.

“I bet it feels huge in this hand.” - Deadpool

Yes, I would shake his hand, even knowing it has been to New York.

I’d rather risk shaking his hand than smoking a cigar from Bill.

This is not really a discussion of the election.

Off to The BBQ Pit.

I’d bring one of my cats, just to see if he’d reflexively reach for it.