This model of Donald Trump's awful handshake is hilariously on-point

Terrifyingly accurate.
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Sam Haysom
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We don't know if you've noticed, but Donald Trump has a pretty odd handshake.

It's sort of difficult to describe. Whenever he shakes a person's hand, he tends to yank on their arm with a strange shoulder-jerking motion while simultaneously patting them with his free hand as if to reassure them that what they're experiencing is normal.

Here's a real-world example:

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On Wednesday, someone decided to map Trump's uniquely strange handshake once and for all -- by making an actual model of it.

Here's the model in action:

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At the time of writing, the Imgur post has been viewed around 170,000 times. It's also gone viral on Twitter, and has been shared by the likes of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

In the interests of all the many, many people who may one day have to shake his hand, we can only hope the model finds its way to the Trump himself.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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