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And I don't want to hear the "He didn't SEE her!" defense either because according to tradition in every SOTU speech in history (yes, there is video) he is supposed to offer to shake her hand in the first place, so not only did he not see her, he didn't offer a handshake, which is WHY he didn't see her.
Can’t speak to whether it’s tradition or not, but I just watched a video of Obama’s 2016 SOTU and he shook Biden’s hand, then Pelosi’s when he first stepped up to the podium, but not when he gave them copies of the speech. The handshakes seemed informal. Trump didn’t offer to shake either Pence’s or Pelosi’s hand when he stepped up to the podium. I don’t know if he saw Pelosi’s hand out or not, but it’s possible. It’s also possible he intentionally snubbed her. If it was intentional it was a low class and petty thing to do, but there was no shortage of low class and petty things happening last night.