I shook a man’s hand the other day.
He was a former colleague I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. When we spotted each other we smiled and I instinctively raised my hand waist high, thumb up at a right angle. He returned the gesture and we clasped, web to web.
There was something so familiar about the custom, and yet, with the idea that our hands carry a potentially lethal cocktail of germs having been firmly implanted in our heads over the last year, so illicit.
“Are we shaking hands again?” I asked.
“I think we are,” he replied.
First Posted: Jun 03, 2021 06:31 AM EDT
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After the former United States President struggled in finding ways to influence news coverage since he left office, Donald Trump shut down his month-old blog called From the Desk of Donald J. Trump.
The decision of former President Trump to remove himself from the internet on Wednesday, June 2, was the first time he intentionally stopped his online activity. On previous occasions, it was social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter that shut down and banned the accounts of Trump.
According to The New York Times, a person familiar with the former President s thinking shared that Trump becomes frustrated after he heard from his friends that his blog site was getting little traffic. Trump s friends also said that the blog made him look small and irrelevant.