The French president, Emmanuel Macron, played on Monday an incident in which his wife, Brigitte, pushed him in the face when the couple arrived in Vietnam to start a tour of Southeast Asia.
In a video, Brigitte Macron seemed to push her husband before he descended from the presidential plane on Sunday night, which made her step back before recovering and greeting the cameras in the asphalt below.
He remained momentarily hidden behind the fuselage of the plane, blocking any vision of his body language. The couple, who has been married since 2007, descended the steps together, with Brigitte rejecting her husband’s arm.
“I was arguing, or rather joking, with my wife,” Macron told reporters in Hanoi. “It’s no big deal.”
He warned that this was not the first time in the last weeks that his videos content had been crooked by people he described as “crazy.”
Macron cited a shared video on social networks that showed him to eliminate a white -wrinkled white object on a train during a visit to Ukraine. Some users of social networks suggested, without providing evidence, that the object was a cocaine bag. Macron said it was a handkerchief and that his office accused France’s enemies to spread false news.
Earlier on Monday, an Elysee official said about the last video: “It was a time when the president and his wife relaxed for the last time before the start of the trip when they laugh.”
