French President Emmanuel Macron is
on a Southeast Asian tour, though I’m sure he didn’t want this moment
to be publicly viewed by the press. Brigitte Macron was caught slapping
the French president as the aircraft's door opened. Macron tried to spin
the moment, claiming he was teasing his wife. I don’t think a lot of
people are buying it, even if it is true (via French 24):
French media on Monday tried to decipher the interaction
that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane as the
couple disembarked in Hanoi Sunday for the start of a tour of Southeast
Asia. The headline of a story on the website of the daily Le Parisien
newspaper asked: “Slap or ‘squabble’? The images of Emmanuel and
Brigitte Macron disembarking in Vietnam trigger a lot of comment.”
Macron
later told reporters that the couple — married since 2007 after meeting
at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher — were
simply joking around.
“We are horsing around and, really, joking
with my wife,” he said, adding that the incident was being overblown:
“It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.”
He added that
other videos had been misinterpreted, like ones purportedly showing him
sharing a bag of cocaine or confronting the Turkish president. “None of
these are true,” he said, and “everyone needs to calm down”.
[…]
His office earlier offered a similar explanation.
“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.
He seemed angry. She seemed angry.
Meh. C'est la vie.
Some of the reactions, however, were fantastic. The Babylon Bee never fails:
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