Macron reacts to viral video of wife slapping him, says it's nothing, they were just joking

After his handkerchief sent the satellite into a tizzy making them judge that it was a cocaine pouch, present French President Emmanuel Macron is again seen successful a viral video wherever his wife, Brigitte Macron, appeared to person pushed Macron's look successful a mode that looks similar she slapped him.

The incidental took spot Sunday evening arsenic Macron arrived successful Vietnam to statesman his Southeast Asian tour. In a video changeable by the Associated Press successful Hanoi, Macom was seen emerging from his level arsenic helium landed. His woman Birgitte's limb past emerged from the near of the door. She placed some her hands connected her husband's look and gave it a shove.Not lone were the onlookers surprised, but Macron excessively was startled capable by what happened and started waving done the door.

His woman remained wrong the aircraft, and her expressions could not beryllium read. As the Vietnamese officials welcomed them, they got down the staircase, and Birgitte refused to instrumentality her husband's limb though helium offered it.

What made the full occurrence worse is that Macron's bureau initially said thing similar that happened connected the plane, questioning the authenticity of the video. But later, they decided to springiness a antithetic rotation to the incidental and said the mates conscionable had a infinitesimal of togetherness.

A root adjacent to the president told CNN affiliate BFM TV that the mates were simply bickering and it was a "moment of togetherness". “It was a infinitesimal erstwhile the president and his woman were unwinding 1 past clip earlier the travel began, playfully teasing each other,” the root told CNN. “No much was needed to provender the mills of the conspiracy theorists,” the root added."I was bickering, oregon alternatively joking, with my wife," Macron told reporters successful Hanoi.

"It's nothing." Earlier this month, Macron was astatine the bosom of a viral fake quality communicative that claimed helium was utilizing cocaine aboard a...