French President Macron Speaks After Wife Pushes Him in Face: "We Were Joking."
- A viral video showed Brigitte Macron lightly touching Emmanuel Macron's face, sparking speculation
- The president clarified that the viral moment was a joking, playful moment before official engagements
- An official statement from his office, seen by TUKO.co.ke, described it as a moment of the couple's complicity
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French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed speculation sparked by a viral video showing his wife, Brigitte Macron, lightly pushing his face.
Source: Twitter
The clip captured a moment as the First Family disembarked from a plane in Vietnam. It elicited mixed reactions online.
In the video, Brigitte touched Macron's face as they walked together, prompting a surprised reaction from the president before he turned to wave at the press.
Despite the seemingly innocent gesture, the video went viral beyond borders.
Did Brigitte slap Macron?
Speaking to reporters in Hanoi, Macron criticised the exaggerated reactions to the video.
The president criticised its use as a tool for sparking unnecessary debate:
“There’s a video showing me joking and teasing my wife and somehow that becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe, with people even coming up with theories to explain it. The videos are all real, and yes, sometimes people tamper with them, but people are attributing all kinds of nonsense to them... I was bickering, or rather joking, with my wife. It’s nothing.”
He also warned that this was not the first time recently that footage of him had been distorted by what he described as crackpots seeking to spread misinformation.
Official Statement from Macron’s Office
As captured in a statement shared by The Shades Room, Macron’s office offered a similar explanation, describing the moment as one of lightheartedness and closeness between the president and his wife before the official start of their trip.
"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," the statement read.
Here is what netizens think about the shove:
kanessamuluneh:
"That push was a little too personal."
misstweetsum:
"She met him when she was his teacher when he was 15 and she was 39! It shows she groomed him after that inappropriate relationship! WOW! And she was married with 3 kids his age."
king_neche:
"No matter who you are!! Your wife will always humble you."
hate_me_or_admiree
"Women don’t care if you're a president or the biggest Gangster, they will check you."
whyhiphop:
"The way he looked up at the camera and got into character 😂😂 yeaaaa eat that."
Wahu, Nameless recreate Mwai Kibaki, Lucy's moment
Separately, in a throwback to a decade ago, late President Mwai Kibaki and his late wife, Lucy, held a press conference to address rumours about his alleged infidelity.
Source: UGC
The dispute emerged after a politician publicly spoke about the affair, prompting the couple to clear the air.
During the press conference, Lucy stood by her husband’s side and encouraged the media to ask questions after the president’s speech.
In a viral video, Wahu and Nameless funnily re-enacted the moment, with Nameless standing in front of a microphone and Wahu playfully positioned behind him, entertaining their fans with the re-enactment.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
