Last week might have seemed like a short one thanks to the Fourth of July holiday, but as anyone who has ever been online knows, the internet doesn't sleep. So even while you were taking it easy, something was happening on social media. Like what? For one, everyone was talking about the photos that came out of President Trump's meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 summit.

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