Dutch Queen Reveals What She Really Said During That Viral Trump Moment

Yahoo

18 hours ago

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands said that viral moment with President Donald Trump wasn't quite what it looked like to some observers.
The queen and King Willem-Alexander met with Trump last month during the NATO summit at The Hague. In footage that took off across social media, she made a gesture with her mouth ― one some thought was mocking Trump's own distinctive mouth movements.
But she said that's not what happened at all.
'I said 'thank you' to someone who had helped,' she told AD, a Dutch news site, according to a translation by The Daily Beast.
She called the encounter 'pleasant.'
The moment didn't just take off on social media. It also became fodder for right-wing media, with Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo joking that the gesture might cause Trump to send a 'personalized bunker buster' bomb to the Netherlands.