{"id":28370,"date":"2025-05-29T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28370"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:22:58","slug":"macrons-office-forced-into-embarrassing-u-turn-over-explanation-behind-wifes-slap-in-heated-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28370","title":{"rendered":"Macron’s office forced into embarrassing U-turn over explanation behind ‘wife’s slap’ in heated exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emmanuel Macron’s office had to make a U-turn over that footage of his wife Brigitte appearing to ‘slap’ him in the face.<\/p>\n

The French president, 47, was recently caught on camera disembarking a plane in Vietnam, where he could be seen as the aircraft’s door was being opened.<\/p>\n

Standing out of shot and just off to the side was his wife Brigitte, 72, and as\u00a0President Macron<\/a>\u00a0was seen standing in the doorway, her hands reached out and seemingly\u00a0made contact with his face<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The incident has been described as a ‘push’ and a ‘slap’, and right after it happened, Macron looked out to the cameras and gave a little wave before he and his wife descended the stairs.<\/p>\n

He appeared to offer her his arm as they walked down, but she instead held onto the handrail.<\/p>\n

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The incident occurred as they disembarked a plane in Vietnam (LUDOVIC MARIN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Naturally, this prompted a lot of discussion over what exactly had happened, and adding to the confusion was some mixed messaging from the \u00c9lys\u00e9e, the official residence of the\u00a0French<\/a>\u00a0president.<\/p>\n

Several outlets including CNN\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the \u00c9lys\u00e9e had initially denied the incident, with a French outlet called Breves de presse\u00a0claiming<\/a>\u00a0that they had suggested it might have been AI-generated and spread by pro-Russian accounts before later confirming the footage was real and saying it was a ‘moment of togetherness’.<\/p>\n

Macron himself later spoke about the footage, saying: “There\u2019s a video showing me joking and teasing my wife and somehow that becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe, with people even coming up with theories to explain it.<\/p>\n

“The videos are all real, and yes, sometimes people tamper with them, but people are attributing all kinds of nonsense to them.”<\/p>\n

He said the whole incident was ‘nothing’ and when they later visited Indonesia, they departed the plane arm in arm.<\/p>\n

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Subsequent attempts to get off planes have been far less controversial (LUDOVIC MARIN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

A body language expert had claimed that they didn’t think the moment caught on camera was\u00a0the couple being playful<\/a>, suggesting that in subsequent appearances they were ‘looking like a bride and groom on their wedding day’ in an attempt to show all was well.<\/p>\n

A lip reader alleged that Brigitte told her husband to ‘stay away, you loser<\/a>‘ and that the French president said ‘let’s try, please’.<\/p>\n

The couple met when she was his 39-year-old teacher and he was a 15-year-old school student.<\/p>\n

She was a married mother-of-three at the time, and one of her children was Macron’s classmate.<\/p>\n

LADbible has contacted the \u00c9lys\u00e9e for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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