Clearly realising that he had a captive audience who can’t get enough of mechanical, robotic arm devices, Trump started to give them his opinion on Biden.

“You know, Biden would use the autopen. He’d have an autopen follow him. You know, Joe Biden, he didn’t sign his name, he was incapable of signing his name … Not too good, right? Better to sign it yourself,” Trump told the gathered small children, before asking them, “Does anybody like the fake news? No?”

Lots of U.S. presidents have used autopens, from Thomas Jefferson to, erm, Donald Trump.

Do and don’t mess with Manu!

Schoolchildren might be the right audience for breaking news but it’s best not to let your guard down too much. After leaving a high school in Valence in the southeast of France in 2021, President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face (albeit not by a child but by a 28-year-old man).

Three years earlier, Macron had another tense (if much less violent) exchange. During a visit to Mont Valerien fort near Paris, where hundreds of French Resistance members were executed during World War II, Macron was greeted by a cheeky teen (le Gavroche!) who greeted him by saying, “How’s it going, Manu?”

“No, you can’t do that, no, no, no, no,” said a deadly serious Macron.