While President Trump’s first ever meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin galvanized attention at the G-20 summit, an altogether different interaction between two world leaders, and longtime rivals, captured the amusement of the Internet.
Cameras caught an animated conversation between Putin, Russia’s president, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in which Merkel appeared to roll her eyes at Putin.
Merkel gives Putin some serious eyeroll here. pic.twitter.com/tSdmj5AMue
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 7, 2017
Journalists and others quickly reacted on social media and tried to guess the topic of the conversation, and what prompted Merkel’s eye roll.
One Twitter user, Oliver Willis, imagined the conversation went like this: “And then I was so smart the way I hacked her email, and then I got WikiLeaks and I —” “Do go on. Sigh.”
“And then I was so smart the way I hacked her email, and then I got WikiLeaks and I –“
“Do go on. Sigh.” pic.twitter.com/Tj4eejaYOF— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 7, 2017
Another Twitter user speculated the two leaders broached a lighter topic: Christmas movies.
“..so given these points, it is technically a christmas movie” pic.twitter.com/0ovYzAqo2Y
— Alazar Moges (@zarzarbinkss) July 7, 2017
Merkel and Putin are vastly different leaders who have a long history together.
In one notable interaction, a 2014 New Yorker profile on Merkel recounted that Putin brought his dog into a 2007 meeting with Merkel, who is afraid of dogs.
