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EMMANUEL Macron and his wife Brigitte have put on a united front for the world’s cameras a day after the shocking face slap drama.
Viral footage that has overshadowed the start of the couple’s Southeast Asia tour shows the French leader’s wife shoving him in the mouth and jaw after landing in Vietnam.
Macron (centre L) and Brigitte (R) look on during their visit after the shove video[/caption]
Brigitte’s hands are seen on Macron’s face[/caption]
Furious Macron attempted to downplay the incident last night by claiming the pair were “squabbling and, rather joking”.
He added that the unbelievable incident has been overblown into “a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe”.
The French leader also argued that the clip and viral reaction to it offered a cautionary tale about disinformation in the social media age.
Today, Macron and the First Lady were captured arm-in-arm after arriving at Hanoi’s University of Science and Technology for the French president to make a speech.
The couple pictured together comes a mere few hours after Macron claimed “crackpot” conspiracy theorists were trying to heighten speculation on what their marriage might look like behind closed doors.
Footage of the shove was initially denied by Macron’s office as being an AI-generated fake – but were forced to retract their statement and admit it was genuine.
His office said: “It was a moment where the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around.
“It’s a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists.”
The unbelievable moment captured at Hanoi airport showed Macron facing his wife – who is out of the frame – as the plane’s doors opened.
Despite Brigitte not being visible, her arms are soon seen raising as she shoves a stern-looking Macron in the face.
Macron looking shocked after realising the plane door was open[/caption]
Macron is on a state visit to Vietnam from 25 to 27 May[/caption]
France’s President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron disembark from the plane[/caption]
Appearing shocked, the French leader immediately notices the doors open and quickly turns to wave at the sea of cameras at the bottom of the plane steps.
Despite Macron’s attempts to defuse claims that they weren’t in a heated argument, the couple’s body language immediately after the push seems to suggest otherwise.
Brigitte and Macron emerge together from the aircraft and walk down the staircase, with the French leader extending his arm to his wife.
But she takes hold of the handrail of the walkway for support instead, potentially due to an explosive argument they could have had inside.
The French leader has repeatedly been targeted by conspiracy theories and deepfakes.
He previously had to deny “false and fabricated” rumours his wife was born a man, dubbing the transgender claims as being typified misogynistic online attacks on women.
And recently he blasted a fake Russian claim that he had a bag of cocaine on the table when he was pictured on his way to Kyiv with Keir Starmer and Germany’s Friedrich Merz.
Drawing comparison with the shove video and the cocaine tissue claim, Macron said in Vietnam last night: “For three weeks, there have been people who have watched videos and who think that I shared a bag of cocaine, that I had a mano-a-mano with a Turkish president and now that I am having a domestic dispute with my wife.
“In these three videos, I took a tissue, shook someone’s hand and just joked with my wife, as we do quite often. Nothing more.
“None of this is true. So everyone needs to calm down.”
The politician was just 15 when he started a relationship with the then mother-of-three, his French literature teacher.
Macron is in Hanoi to begin a week-long tour of Southeast Asia, where he will also visit Indonesia and Singapore.
By Eleonora Girotto, Video Journalist
A BODY language expert has labelled the incident between Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte as “shocking” and “very unfunny”.
Judi James said that the French President insisting that the shove was “playful” is worrying because it’s “trying to normalise something that we should be shocked by”.
The expert told The Sun: “We quite rightly should be shocked by it, and it absolutely shouldn’t matter who’s doing it to who.
“That’s not good natural behaviour. We can see Macron, who very much the alpha male leader with his body language, preparing to get off the plane.
“The door opens and anybody looking at him and his wife obviously more than anybody else would know that he’s getting into professional mode.
“He’s about to step out in Vietnam on the world stage, and he’s kind of pumped up accordingly. He seems to talk to his wife at the side who we can’t see at this point.
“But then, shockingly, her hand comes out and presses against his face, the nose as well.
“And if anybody wants to try this on themselves, you’ll feel how vulnerable it makes you feel. And pushes it to the point where he reels sideways.
“So it’s not a little stroke or anything like that, and then there’s even a final extra push at the end that I think technically could have toppled him over.
“You know, this is not playing. It certainly wouldn’t be playing at work or anywhere. It’s entirely inappropriate.
“We can see Macron, his expression suddenly changes to a micro gesture of shock before he turns around and seems to have a conversation with his wife.
“Then when we see them emerging, obviously, there’s this attempt to sort of do a glow up – nothing just happened.
“He does a little wave before this happens. But then when they come out together formally, he does put his hand out and seems to extend it, either to hold her hand or maybe to help her down the steps or to usher her first.
“But she ignores him and we get both of them coming down, holding the opposite handrail, making their way down. So it looks very, I would say, frosty. But I would still say that Macron looks rather shocked.
“And we can see later on, if we look at a close up of his hand, we can see that it’s bored into a fist. The knuckles look white. So clearly a lot of pent up tension there as a result, quite rightly.
“I’m pretty sure that over the next few days, we’re going to see a superhuman effort to try and look like the sweetest, most loving couple. And I’m sure that we’re going to see Brigitte looking a lot more submissive and make him look a lot more dominant.”
Macron (L) and Brigitte pose for a photo as they visit the University[/caption]
Macron waves after the little spat on his presidential plane[/caption]
The pair emerge from the aircraft calm and collected immediately after the incident[/caption]
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EMMANUEL Macron has been forced to reveal the reason why his wife Brigitte pushed him in the face in the embarrassing moment caught on camera.
Viral footage shows the French leader’s wife shoving him in the mouth and jaw after landing in Vietnam for the start of their Southeast Asia tour.
Brigitte Macron (back C), the wife of France’s President Emmanuel Macron (C) attends a state dinner with her husband and Vietnam’s President Luong Cuong[/caption]
The unbelievable moment captured at Hanoi airport showed Macron facing his wife – who is out of the frame – as the plane’s doors opened.
Despite Brigitte not being visible, her arms are soon seen raising as she shoves a stern-looking Macron in the face.
Appearing shocked, the French leader immediately notices the doors open and quickly turns to wave at the sea of cameras at the bottom of the plane steps.
Macron has since slammed claims that the pair were in a heated argument and instead said they were “squabbling and, rather, joking”.
He added that the bizarre incident as been overblown into “a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe”.
The French leader also argued that the clip and viral reaction to it offered a cautionary tale about disinformation in the social media age.
Macron’s office were also forced to speak out, downplaying the surprising interaction.
His office said: “It was a moment where the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around.
“It’s a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists.”
Despite Macron’s attempt to defuse claims that they weren’t in a heated argument, the couple’s body language immediately afterwards seems to suggest otherwise.
Brigitte and Macron emerge together from the aircraft and walk down the staircase, with the French leader extending his arm to his wife.
But she takes hold of the handrail of the walkway for support instead, potentially due to an explosive argument they could have had inside.
The politician was just 15 when he started a relationship with the then mother-of-three, his French literature teacher.
Macron was in Hanoi to begin a week-long tour of Southeast Asia, where he will also visit Indonesia and Singapore.
The French leader has repeatedly been targeted by conspiracy theories and deepfakes.
Brigitte’s hands are seen on Macron’s face[/caption]
Macron waves after the little spat on his presidential plane[/caption]
The pair emerge from the aircraft calm and collected[/caption]
France’s President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron disembark from the plane[/caption]
He previously had to deny “false and fabricated” rumours his wife was born a man, dubbing the transgender claims as being typified misogynistic online attacks on women.
And recently he blasted a fake Russian claim that he had a bag of cocaine on the table when he was pictured on his way to Kyiv with Keir Starmer and Germany’s Friedrich Merz.
Pro-Russian social media accounts initiated the cocaine conspiracy theory – which spread rapidly online.
One account posted on X: “Macron, Starmer and Merz caught on video on their return from Kiev. A bag of white powder on the table.
“Macron quickly pockets it, Merz hides the spoon. No explanation given.”
Even Russia‘s foreign ministry even poured petrol on the flames, when its spokesperson Maria Zakharova posted on Telegram that “a Frenchman, an Englishman and a German” had been spotted with cocaine paraphernalia on a train.
She wrote: “The fate of Europe is being decided by utterly (drug) dependent individuals.
“It’s as if the Almighty Himself is lifting the veil on this putrid spectacle.”
EMMANUEL Macron, the youngest president in France’s history, met his future wife when he was just 15 years old.
Macron was Brigitte’s drama student in school – where she would read his writing out to the class.
When Macron hit the limelight, footage of him kissing his future wife on the cheek – when he was just a teen and she was his married teacher – emerged.
Macron, now 46, shared a classroom at a Catholic school with Brigitte’s daughter Laurence – who is the same age as him.
His parents were stunned when they learned that their son was romantically involved with his teacher as they believed he was actually in love with Laurence, reports Reuters.
Writer Anne Fulda, who penned the book Emmanuel Macron: A Perfect Young Man, spoke to the politician’s parents about the unconventional romance, which happened while Brigitte was still married to the father of her three children.
His parents were shocked by the explosive revelation and removed their teen son from the school in Amiens, in northern France, and sent him to finish his education in Paris.
Macron married his wife in 2007 after Brigitte’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
The former economics minister is step-father to his wife’s three adult children, including son Sebastien who is two years older than Macron.
Macron does not have any biological children with his wife, although he is also the step-grandfather of Brigitte’s seven grandchildren.
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