It was like something out of a bad sitcom.
French First Lady Brigitte Macron was caught on camera shoving her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, square in the face as they waited to get off their plane in Hanoi.
Video of the incident shows the door of the aircraft swinging open and Brigitte’s hands reach for his face—one over his mouth and nose, the other pressing his jaw—gently but firmly steering him out of view.
Macron turns, sees the cameras, and snaps into a politician’s grin.
He waves. The moment passes. But the image lingers: the leader of France, momentarily muzzled by his wife, on the world stage.
Watch the clip below:
Domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of their status. President of France @EmmanuelMacron is the latest victim of gender-based violence. The perpetrator is his wife. We won’t downgrade to playful teasing as the French government alludes! 😳
— Sue Diamond (@sum109) May 26, 2025
“We are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife,” President Macron said, according to the AP, adding that the incident was being overblown into “a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.”
“Everyone needs to calm down,” he added.
“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,” his office said, according to the AP.
More over at Fox News:
Emmanuel Macron's wife seen shoving him in the face in viral clip as France's first couple arrives in Vietnam https://t.co/AHtSsVJHZf
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