It's not in and of itself a bad thing per se. It's not as bad as vomiting all over the Prime Minister for example or getting a kiss from the Saudi King. rolleyes

But my understanding is that the President isn't supposed to bow to anyone. In any event the image fits perfectly into an ugly narrative about the President which his political enemies have been honing for quite some time. He has to be careful about such things.

To paraphrase Vito, "Men, women and children can be careless, not the President".
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"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.