Masquerade of transatlantic relationship or what the nothingness of a gesture means

The syndrome of the random elect, well dressed in awkwardness dispersed confusion on the first face-to-face transatlantic meeting.

The U.S. President Donald Trump and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel met last Friday and this happening left sure pack of diversification on the international etiquette and the interpretation of the transatlantic relationship.

This meeting was supposed to shape and determine the future of the alliance, but in fact it was hardly to mask the differences on major geopolitical issues like views on Russia’s significance, immigration and trade.  

The uncomfortable moments were not few, given the fact that Mr Trump  didn’t outline strong and significant measures on the macroeconomic scene as the propaganda spoke much more over the inside structural effects. And this is partly explaining the strange behaviour. Probably he is not ready, probably he is not supposed to be ready. And moreover he is not likely to buy Merkel’s love.

It’s a hard job to put yourself into the tough game and master the role of domination when you have no clear definition what the game is about.  

But let’s have a look at the situation from the viewpoint of the body language. Though Merkel seemed to be relaxed and comfortable, the body language between them was not quite warm.

Trump and Merkel shook hands when she arrived at the White House, but it was not doubled in the Oval Office, where she very often leaned towards him while he was looking straight ahead and sitting with his legs apart and hands together. The expectations were not justified and the situation screamed out with the lack of due protocol.

Aside from business and foreign policy goals, relationship construction is an important if less overt agenda item.

Merkel, hold on tight and consider the distance of your hands as another message, although it is not yet formulated.