The awkward encounter saw each grip the other’s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white .
Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to “show he would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones, but also not overdo things”.
BBC: Macron says awkward Trump handshake a ‘moment of truth’
G7 leaders gather in Taormina, Italy, on May 26. From left, European Council president Donald Tusk, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
