When ‘Mr Charisma’ met ‘Mr Logic’: body language expert’s verdict on the Trump-Starmer meeting

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. From the power of the handshakes, to their tender gestures during the televised Oval Office chat, and the way each stood apart during the later White House press conference, the pair could not be more “mismatched”, according to body language expert Caroline Goyder. And so it's amazing, It's like Mars and Venus.” open image in gallery Keir Starmer and Donald Trump were like “Mr Charisma” and “Mr Logic” during the meeting, Ms Goyder said Ms Goyder said Trump appeared “totally comfortable in his leadership” while Mr Starmer, when arriving at the White House to shake hands with the president looked like a “boy in his new school uniform, at school on the first day”. But Ms Goyder said the comparison between Sir Keir’s body language and French president Emmanuel Macron’s during his earlier meeting with the US president couldn’t be starker. “Sir Keir needs to meet Trump on a more intuitive, passionate, instinctive level, and he needs to get into his body,” Ms Goyder told ITV.