French President Emmanuel Macron played an incident in which his wife, Brigitte, pushed him in the face while the couple arrived in Vietnam on Monday to start a tour in Southeast Asia.
In a video, Brigitte Macron seemed to push her husband before going down from the presidential plane on Sunday, making him take a step back before recovering and glowing the cameras on the tarmac below.
She remained temporarily hidden behind the fuselage of the plane, blocking all views of her body language. The couple, who has been married since 2007, then went down the footsteps together, Brigitte refusing her husband’s arm.
“I was bickering, or rather joking with my wife,” Macron told journalists in Hanoi. “It’s nothing.”
He warned that it was not the first time in recent weeks that the content of him was twisted by people he described as “crackers”.
Macron cited a shared video on the social networks that showed him by removing a crumpled white object from a table on a train during a visit to Ukraine. Some social media users have suggested – without providing evidence – that the object was a bag of cocaine. Macron said it was a fabric and that his office accused France’s enemies of distributing false news.
Earlier Monday, an Elysee official said about the last video: “It was a time when the president and his wife relaxed one last time before the start of the trip.”
