US President Donald Trump ignored a handshake again and is being slammed on social media for his move. After snubbing German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she prompted him for a handshake earlier this year, Trump recently ignored a differently-abled boy and Twitterati has been terming it "heartbreaking". A video is doing rounds on Twitter that shows several people standing behind POTUS, including several small children. After a speech, Trump begins to shake hands with them and a small boy in a wheelchair held his hand out in the air to greet him. However, Trump ignored him. The president was speaking at the White House on various healthcare issues. During his speech he even dubbed the children lined up behind him as "victims of Obamacare". Watch video here Many people, including author J K Rowling, noticed the video clip and slammed him. Rowling in a series of tweets criticised the leader for ignoring the child and reminded the world how he had previously mocked a differently-abled reporter. "Trump imitated a disabled reporter. Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition," she wrote. Calling him a "monster of narcissism", she continued her scathing attack on Trump. (unless related to him by ties of blood, and therefore his creations) are treated with contempt, because they do not resemble Trump. — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017 So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw. /2 — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017 How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President. /4x — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017 Several others joined Rowling and lambasted the leader. Many also said that the little boy wouldn't have been able to handle a 'Trumpshake' so it's better for the child. Here's what Tweeple felt about the video: This is not a good man. Period. — Laura Parrott Perry (@lparrottperry) July 29, 2017 How sad. The boy is probably lucky though. A Trump handshake might have dislocated his shoulder. — Debra Stalnaker (@DebSaidIt) July 28, 2017 If Trump did that wanky arm pull handshake thing on the kid in the wheelchair though — NotThisCock (@Cockleonius) July 28, 2017 Trump doesn't look down and ignores the child in wheelchair reaching Trump for a handshake — Uzair Hasan Rizvi (@RizviUzair) July 29, 2017 Who cares if Trump wheeled the boy into the room. The child reached for a handshake twice while Trump was shaking people's hands.. — Cathy (@ChattyCattyCat) July 28, 2017 I don't care that Trump acknowedged disable boy from podium. I do resent that @potus could not give him even a hug or handshake. — Roberto Eder (@reder01) July 28, 2017 I have just seen the clip of Trump ignoring that kid's handshake. 💔 What a heartless buffoon. — Hannah (@HLHEtheridge) July 28, 2017 Trump ignores a kid in a wheelchair trying to give him a handshake. and here's how Obama treated kids in wheelchairs. pic.twitter.com/wF210680Op — Griffin Lamp (@GrifffinL) July 28, 2017 Trump ignores child in wheelchair handshake twice. This doesn't surprise me since he's a 🐍. — Jess Venable (@Jess5Venable) July 28, 2017 However, since the video went viral many including Pier Morgan have been claiming that it is an "edited version" and in the original video, Trump did shake hands with the child when he entered the room to deliver his speech. However, he did refuse to shake hands while leaving the room, part of the clip that is going viral. Today, @jk_rowling posted 8 hateful tweets about Donald Trump 'snubbing' a disabled boy. She lied. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 29, 2017 I despise @realDonaldTrump but the unedited video DOES show him shaking the the disabled boy's hands. @jk_rowling has got this one wrong. — Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) July 29, 2017 So @jk_rowling is on a tirade about how Trump ignored a kid in a wheelchair, but she conveniently left out the clip from the beginning: pic.twitter.com/v3tBXI8WY9 — エリック (@scratch_point) July 28, 2017 I'm disabled & intensely dislike Trump, but to be fair, the kid was showing him his cookie, not looking for a handshake. — the Cripple Chick (@jessienebulous) July 28, 2017 The video has created a huge controversy on Twitter and now people are asking Rowling to retract her tweets and apologise to Trump.
