TV Article Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton don't shake hands before final debate By Christopher Rosen Christopher Rosen Christopher Rosen is the former executive editor at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2018. EW's editorial guidelines Published on October 19, 2016 12:00PM EDT Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images No pleasantries for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton before the third and final presidential debate. The two candidates did not shake hands before Wednesday’s event. Trump and Clinton did not shake hands before the second debate either; they did greet each other with a handshake before the first debate. The lack of handshake was not ignored by debate viewers on Twitter.