What happened between Angela Merkel and Donald Trump? As we know, nonverbal communication includes facial expressions, eye contact, tone of voice, body posture and motions. According with Edward T. Hall (social anthropologist) in a normal conversation, less than 35% of the social meanings is transmitted by words and at least 65% of it is conveyed through the body.

1. THE NONVERBAL LANGUAJE AND THE INCIDENT WITH
ANGELA MERKEL
(Donny, why you didn’t do your homework?)
By Juan Carlos Erdozáin Rivera
As we know, nonverbal communication includes
facial expressions, eye contact, tone of voice, body
posture and motions.
According with Edward T. Hall (social
anthropologist) in a normal conversation, less than
35% of the social meanings is transmitted by words
and at least 65% of it is conveyed through the body.
An example is “The Tehran Conference”, it was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in
Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and
December 1, 1943.
This photograph is an example, which displays
after the negotiations in Tehran, the preference of
the President Roosevelt by Churchill, shown
through the non-verbal language (crossed leg
toward Churchill) in place of Stalin. Why? The three
leaders coordinated their military strategy against
Germany and Japan and made several important
decisions concerning the post “World War II” era.
The most notable achievements of the Conference focused on the next phases of the war
against the Axis powers in Europe and Asia. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin engaged in
discussions concerning the terms under which the British and Americans finally committed
to launching Operation Overlord, an invasion of northern France, to be executed by May of
1944. The Soviets, who had long been pushing the Allies to open a second front, agreed to
launch another major offensive on the Eastern Front that would divert German troops away
from the Allied campaign in northern France. Stalin also agreed in principle that the
Soviet Union would declare war against Japan following an Allied victory over
Germany. In exchange for a Soviet declaration of war against Japan, Roosevelt
conceded to Stalin’s demands for the Kurile Islands and the southern half of Sakhalin,
and access to the ice-free ports of Dairen (Dalian) and Port Arthur (Lüshun Port)
located on the Liaodong Peninsula in northern China. The exact details concerning this
deal were not finalized, however, until the Yalta Conference of 1945.

2. By the other side, Churchill just warned to Roosevelt, take care, because the new threat
(after Germany) would be “The Red Spot”, it means the Soviets.
One way of non-verbal language is haptic communication is communicating by touch. Touch
or Haptics is the characteristic of nonverbal communication and used when we come into
physical contact with other people. Quite Informal way of nonverbal communication in USA
is a handshake, a smile, and 'hello'; we use handshakes to gain trust and introduce
ourselves.
Why Donald Trump didn’t shake hands with Angela Merkel?
Perhaps the answer is the body language:
What the body of this player is
saying?
Dejected
Disappointed
Lost it.
George Bernard Shaw once said: "I am the most spontaneous speaker in
the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been
carefully rehearsed."
What do you think?
What Mr. President is
saying?
…Just imagine.