• US Election 2016

When Donald Trump met President Barack Obama at the White House, their antipathy was barely concealed.

Mr Trump has called the president the worst in history, while Mr Obama said the Republican was unfit for the office.

The New York hotel developer, now president-elect, persistently questioned the birth legitimacy of the Hawaii-born president, and was publicly mocked for it by Mr Obama.

The two men spoke for more than an hour in the Oval Office on Thursday and when they emerged, they tried to put their bitter past behind them, speaking warmly about unity and a peaceful transition.

But the cameras told another story.

Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionIf I stare into space hard enough, this will all go away…Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionTrump’s mind seems to stray… perhaps to the humiliation of Obama’s birther jokes in 2011Image copyrightEUROPEAN PHOTOPRESS AGENCYImage captionOK, here’s the moneyshot… but Obama is stony-faced and Trump gives the gritted-teeth smileImage copyrightAFPImage captionNuclear option when discomfort goes off the scale…. Trump decides he just can’t look, he just CANNOT lookImage copyrightREUTERSImage captionNo more handshakes, much to Trump’s relief… just a grim upside-down smile

Not the first time there have been dagger stares in the Oval Office…

Image copyrightAPImage captionNo love lost in 2012 between former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama