French President Emmanuel Macron’s office is refuting any suggestion that a viral video on social media showing his wife shoving him in the face is anything other than a playful “moment of togetherness.”
The shocking video shows a plane door being opened as Macron and his wife, Brigitte, prepare to disembark after arriving in Vietnam Sunday evening.
ABC News reports that the trip was designed to foster “greater cooperation” between Vietnam and France. The big news, though, is that cooperation behind closed doors between Macron and his wife is sorely lacking.
As the door rolled back on his plane, Macron appeared, turned to his right, and engaged in a conversation with somebody who could not be seen initially. That’s when an arm wearing a red sports coat appeared and shoved the President in the face.
Macron quickly realizes everybody outside the plane could see what happened, flashes a smile, and waves to the crowd as if nothing happened.
French Pres. Emmanuel Macron appeared to be pushed in the face by his wife Brigitte Macron as they arrived in Vietnam, the first stop of a Southeast Asia tour. https://t.co/nqzICGPpeY pic.twitter.com/VQnNSpMm1K
— ABC News (@ABC) May 26, 2025
It looks like some sort of scene out os a sitcom. A couple is having a physical altercation as chaos occurs behind the scenes, and when the curtain rolls back, it’s as if nothing happened.
Macron heads back toward his wife after the fake smile, seemingly determined to make a comment. Shortly thereafter, the couple emerges from the plane together. Emmanuel holds his arm up, hoping that Brigitte will lock around it as they descend the stairs.
His hopes are quickly dashed.
I’m not sure which part of the video is funnier – Macron getting a hand to the face, or Macron trying to recover from the situation with some level of his pride intact.
Or maybe, it’s his office trying to cover for the whole train wreck of a scene.
Macron’s office initially denied what everyone was clearly seeing in the video, but eventually came clean. The spin was something you might have seen during the Biden White House days.
The shove to his face, you see, was actually a tender moment between a loving couple. And if you think otherwise, you’re helping to spread Russian propaganda.
“It was a moment when the president and his wife were relaxing one last time before the start of the trip by having a laugh,” an official said, according to the Daily Mail. “It was a moment of closeness.”
“It’s a moment of togetherness,” another member of the French President’s entourage claimed. “No more was needed to feed the mills of the conspiracy theorists.”
The Mail asserts that the last part was an attempt to blame pro-Russian social media accounts for suggesting the incident was anything other than pure love.
A cheap fake, if you will.
Last year, Macron was forced to publicly address persistent rumors that his wife is transgender. The 72-year-old Brigitte is 25 years older than Emmanuel. The couple was featured on Vanity Fair’s 2017 Best-Dressed list, alongside Barack and Michelle Obama.
Melania Trump, her American counterpart as First Lady, has never made the list despite rolling out of bed on a daily basis looking better.
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