{"id":16716,"date":"2025-08-18T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16716"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:24:21","slug":"people-suggest-haunting-reason-trump-was-walking-in-zig-zags-for-putin-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16716","title":{"rendered":"People suggest haunting reason Trump was walking in zig zags for Putin meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online sleuths believe they\u2019ve deduced the reason behind Donald Trump\u2019s strange walk as he went to his potentially historic summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 15, saw two of the world\u2019s most powerful men convene for talks regarding a ceasefire over Russia\u2019s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Trump<\/a>, who has long proclaimed to be a master negotiator, said ahead of the meeting that he would be tabling an offer \u201ctoo good\u201d to refuse.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, no agreement has been reached (there is no ceasefire), though Trump \u2013 who previously threatened \u201cvery severe consequences\u201d if the summit didn\u2019t reach a favorable conclusion \u2013 said great progress between he and Putin had been made.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly a number of aspects relating to the meeting made headlines over the weekend, including Trump performing his \u201cyank\u201d handshake while he greeted Putin, and viewers spotting a B-2 stealth bomber flying overhead before the meeting began.<\/p>\n<p>And yet arguably what generated the most buzz (at least in the build-up to the summit) was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Trump\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0rather bizarre manner of walking when he disembarked his aircraft and took to a red carpet that would lead him to the meeting place.<\/p>\n<p>Online users simply couldn\u2019t get over the 79-year-old POTUS\u2019s apparent inability to just walk in a straight line, prompting speculation as to why he seemed to be veering left and right.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=newsner&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1956509853410582785&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-sugges-haunting-reason-trump-was-walking-in-zig-zags-for-putin-meeting%2F&amp;sessionId=4372576105e9492e61486d7e03d5c31510050f20&amp;siteScreenName=newsner&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1956509853410582785\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCan any doctors tell me. Why is Trump struggling to walk in a straight line?\u201d one user wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally there were those who stated their belief that the weird walk was down to rumored health issues, but there were other, darker theories abroad.<\/p>\n<p>One included the obvious threat of assassination, only compounded by the incident that saw Trump shot in the ear while on the campaign trail last year.<\/p>\n<p>One X user penned:\u00a0<em>\u201cI\u2019m only half joking here, but if I was almost assassinated twice, I\u2019d probably walk in zig-zags for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201c<em>Thought the same thing. Almost like a reflex at this point.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>A third pondered: \u201c<em>Zig-zag to avoid bullets hitting? Or out of nervousness?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theories relating to Trump and Putin\u2019s big meeting have been all the rage over the weekend. Some online users were even of the opinion that Putin had sent a body double to the summit in Alaska while the president himself stayed well away.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Daily Star, body language expert Inbaal Honigman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/social-media-convinced-putins-body-35740446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">played this idea down,<\/a>\u00a0stating: \u201cAs we observe Vladimir Putin march alongside Donald Trump, the Russian president\u2019s famed \u2018gunslinger gait\u2019 is as evident as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you make of President Trump\u2019s walk? Let us know in the comments box.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online sleuths believe they\u2019ve deduced the reason behind Donald Trump\u2019s strange walk as he went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":10,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16718,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716\/revisions\/16718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}