Barack Obama and Raúl Castro share a pretty awkward moment https://t.co/UWmoc5DkKw pic.twitter.com/toyNbe6IMs— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) March 21, 2016
As the handshake ended, Obama appeared to use his left arm to reach for Castro’s back for a friendly pose before the cameras. But Castro, without looking, intervened. The Cuban president’s right hand seized the U.S. president’s left forearm, and hoisted it.
It looked like the beginning of a pose a prizefight announcer might use to crown a boxing a champ, or how a presidential nominee embraces a running mate on the convention stage. But Castro, considerably shorter than Obama, didn’t have the hand clasp needed to complete that kind of pairing. Instead, he lifted the forearm just above his head.
As Obama turned to wave at the cameras, the most commented-upon sequence occurred: The presidential wrist flapped once from Castro’s hoist.
The moment seemed to end when the two jointly lowered their arms, with Obama’s hand ending in a clasp of the back of Castro’s own hand.
The EXACT moment when Obama realized this Cuba trip was a bad ideahttps://t.co/bk1W9eeNXl— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 21, 2016
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