Because shaking hands with dictators is, of course something that Republicans would never do.or would they

Dwight Eisenhower with Francisco Franco
Dwight Eisenhower with Nikita Khruschev
Henry Kissinger and Augusto Pinochet
Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon with Mao Zedong
George H.W. Bush with Manuel Noriega
Richard Nixon and Nicolae Ceausescu
George H.W. Bush and Hugo Chávez
George W. Bush with Kazakhstan
Ronald Reagan with Mikhail Gorbachev
Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein
Dick Cheney with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev