Trump and Xis footing was a big tell on how their historic China summit went: body language expert

The feet don’t lie.The way President Trump and Xi Jinping’s footing was positioned during their sitdown at the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership compound Friday was a big “tell” regarding the overall success of the historic two-day summit, according to a body language expert.“It’s in the toes — how the toes are pointed, how the feet are pointed, and both of their toes were pointed towards one another as they were seated.And that’s a very big thing,” Lillian Glass, a Florida-based body language expert who has served as an expert witness in federal and state courts on behavioral analysis, told The Post. On Friday, Xi showed Trump his official residence, Zhongnanhai, where the two strongmen walked through a pristine garden before sitting inside an ornate pavilion for talks over tea.Glass said the way the leaders’ toes were fixed toward each other signifies there’s a “connection.”The toes “are very much a tell,” she said, adding that if the leaders’ feet were pointing away, it would symbolize tension.“If you look at it logically, like let’s say you don’t like somebody, your instinct is to leave the room and to look for the exit, so your feet usually are pointed there … but this was not the case.

It’s all in the feet,” Glass said.Trump gushed over Xi’s hospitality and described the state visit as incredible.“I think a lot of, a lot of good has come of it,” Trump told Xi at the garden.“He’s a man I respect greatly.

Become really a friend,” Trump said as he hailed his host.“We’ve known each other now 11 years, almost 12 years.That’s a long time, and we’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to settle, and the relationship is a very strong one.

We’ve really done some wonderful things.”Glass noted how Trump and Xi felt comfortable in each other’s company and they were “much more relaxed than on the first day.”“There was a lot more stiffness, a lot ...