READ MORE <\/strong> Superpowers US and China on brink of meltdown \u2013 and UK will be next to crash<\/strong><\/p>\n “Now whether this is because Melania always wears very high heels or not, I don\u2019t know. I had heeled shoes on but they weren\u2019t high heels.<\/p>\n “I thought, \u2018I\u2019m capable of walking down a slope, thank you very much,\u2019 and the next thing I know he\u2019s holding my hand.”<\/p>\n May continued: “The best interpretation is he\u2019s being a gentleman. But subsequently, a lot of people said maybe he needed the support going down the slope.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t know. He just grabbed my hand and I thought he would then let go of it, but he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n But the gesture everyone believed to have been a one-off was once again repeated the following year during Trump’s visit to the country home of Prime Ministers, Chequers.<\/p>\n DON’T MISS: <\/strong> We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info<\/p>\n Rather than a slope, the pair were walking down a short flight of stairs \u2013 Trump holding on until they reached the designated location for a joint press conference.<\/p>\n Trump’s relationship with May before her departure from office in 2019 was tepid at best, with the former president calling her “foolish” at the height of an ambassadorial dispute.<\/p>\n He later doubled down by praising the man who would become her successor, Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n And when asked about Trump’s conduct following the 2020 presidential election, May’s tone turned much more sombre.<\/p>\n Speaking to The Sunday Times, she said the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 served as a “wake-up call for us all\u201d.<\/p>\n May added: “If you look over the years since the Second World War, there was a sense that liberal democracy was going to be sweeping the world, almost, and it was there and it was embedded and we could take it for granted.<\/p>\n “I think what happened at Capitol Hill showed that we can\u2019t take it for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has repeatedly downplayed his role in inciting his supporters into storming into Congress during the vote to certify Joe Biden’s victory over him.<\/p>\n He has also accused Special Counsel Jack Smith, who indicted him earlier this month in relation to the attack, and the Department of Justice of conducting a “witch hunt” aimed at undermining his efforts to be reelected.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/secondary\/4929883.jpg?r=1693144054610\")
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