French President Macron's wife slaps him in the mouth

[Demovictory9]

Just blowing up everywhere

[sop]

1. That wasn't a love tap.

[Demovictory9]

2. Certainly wasnt. Wow

[TheProle]

31. Betcha next time he finishes his homework

And picks up his LEGOs

[NJCher]

3. It probably was in jest

But a really bad idea.

I know.

Once I met the RG at the airport. He was waiting for his bags to come off the plane. I stealthily came up behind him and started scrunching his ears.

He was quite indignant. His business associates were on the other side of the conveyor belt and were laughing and pointing.

Cost us some dignity.

I’m laughing now but it wasn’t funny then.

[Demovictory9]

4. I dont think so

[True Dough]

5. Based on Macron's expression

and the lack of contact afterward as they descend the stairs, I would agree with you. This was something serious.

[NJCher]

11. Men take it very seriously

When their dignity is assaulted in public.

How do you think Putin would act if his lover/girlfriend/wife/or whatever called him “lover baby” in public?

And then scrunched his ears?

All that macho image building down the drain in a single second.

[TheProle]

25. Grooming victim assaulted by predator...

[MorbidButterflyTat]

36. Who thinks Putin

exudes a "macho image"?

Besides the obese Orange Felon?

[NJCher]

6. I think I could

Convince you with some of our other “surprises” for each other, but I refuse to further embarrass myself.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

7. Who or what

is the RG?

[NJCher]

9. Loved one

Of 30 years.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

10. Ok

Thanks

[PJMcK]

43. That was great!

Your actions were a really fun and loving welcome home! I hope the RG now laughs with you.

Enjoy the holiday!

[NJCher]

8. Serious or not

We might be able to tell with how they handle this fiasco in the next few days.

Having worked in PR, I sure wouldn’t want to have to handle this one.

[bdamomma]

12. oh wow

hmm.....I wonder what that was all about???? doesn't have a good look and he went back to say something to her.

[wyn borkins]

13. As he quickly darted behind the door...perhaps he said:

OMG honey, I'm so very sorry (!).

AND yes, I'll never say that again (!!).

[marble falls]

14. So much speculation! She was wiping the stewardess's lipstick off his lips. Nothing to see here.

[sop]

16. It's a French thing...

[sop]

15. Mrs. Macron is seriously skinny, thankfully not too much force behind that blow.

[JustAnotherGen]

17. Anyone who has spent time

In France as well as Italy -

Knows nothing happens behind closed doors. Nothing.

Also she shouldn't have done it. My Great Grandfather was off the boat from Southern France and my husband is off the plane from the Calabria (hard headed) region of Italy.

I know first hand how much it takes to not pop him one. They are out here saying shit and starting fights

[NJCher]

19. that's very interesting

I haven't spent any significant time in either of those countries.

[NJCher]

18. from the Independent

How they're playing it in the press.

snip

Macron’s office plays down video of French President being ‘slapped by wife’
Emmanuel Macron's office has been forced to play down a video in which his wife, Brigitte, appeared to slap of push him in the face as the couple arrived in Vietnam at the start of a Southeast Asia tour.

The French President’s wife, Brigitte Macron appears to shove her husband before he descended from the presidential plane on Sunday.

She remained hidden behind the plane's fuselage, blocking any view of her body language. The couple then descended the steps together.

An Elysee official played down the moment, denying it showed an argument between the couple: "It was a moment when the president and his wife were relaxing one last time before the start of the trip by having a laugh."

snip

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/emmanuel-macron-wife-slap-vietnam-b2757876.html

[NJCher]

20. another

from LeMonde


https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/26/macron-s-entourage-denies-he-was-slapped-by-his-wife-on-plane-upon-arriving-in-vietnam_6741684_7.html

snip

"My wife and I were squabbling, we were rather joking, and I was taken by surprise," Macron told reporters in Hanoi. Now it's "become a kind of planetary catastrophe, and some are even coming up with theories," he said. Macron referred to other incidents, including the images shot on a train to Kyiv where some accounts falsely claimed he shared cocaine with Merz and Starmer.

This is the third time this month that the French president has been the subject of viral video footage at a time when France says it is being targeted by repeated disinformation campaigns as Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine. Other than the false cocaine claims, images emerged purporting to show Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dominating the French leader in a handshake.

"For three weeks... there are people who have watched videos and think I shared a bag of cocaine, that I had a fight with the Turkish president, and that now I'm having a domestic dispute with my wife," said Macron. "None of these are true," he said. He added that all three videos were "completely authentic" but the meanings attached to them were not.

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[Demovictory9]

27. Of course its getting a lot of attention. Its not every day we see a world leader get smacked

[Irish_Dem]

51. I'd pay cash money to see Melania slap Trump upside the head.

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. Their first attempt was to imply the footage was faked

which, to me, indicates they want to hide something.

Macron's office initially denied the authenticity of the images, evoking the possible use of artificial intelligence, before they were confirmed as genuine and Macron responded.

"In these three videos I took a tissue, shook someone's hand and just joked with my wife, as we do quite often. Nothing more," Macron said.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250526-just-joking-macron-denies-dispute-with-wife-blames-disinformation

[CTyankee]

21. Heh. It might empower Melania. Didn't she shove drump's hand away once when he was trying to hold it?

[NJCher]

28. she did indeed

In fact, more than once. She kind of treats him like he's a fly and she's the swatter.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Uh huh. MK Ultra. One of the favourite Qonspiracy theories Qurrent among people who do their own research. . nt

[Ponietz]

32. That poster must have watched The Ghostwriter recently

Funny, I watched it Saturday.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328

[Demovictory9]

26. Her kids are the same age as Macron or older

[NJCher]

29. believe it or not, but

she's 72. She has 24 years on him.

[Polybius]

33. That's crazy

Wow, 24 years...

[Sympthsical]

23. The one who was 39 when he was 14?

And his parents tried desperately to get him away from her?

Like if Vili Fualaau were our president. See? We're not always the weird ones.

[Mike Nelson]

30. Looks like...

... a pushing of the lower head. I am 100% against any spouse hitting any spouse - of any gender combination - but I don't think that's what I saw, exactly.

[highplainsdem]

39. That's what it.looks like to me, too. Most of the news headlines are calling it pushing or shoving, not slapping.

[JoseBalow]

47. It's a Tsukidashi

Pushing the opponent’s face or chest to force him out of the ring with one or a series of palm thrusts.

Sumo Techniques

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

48. Sumo is the only sport I have followed regularly for more than 30 years. n/t

[JoseBalow]

50. It's the only sport I regularly follow too

I haven't missed a basho in 10 years.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

52. I started when I taught in Japan in 1992...

There was Akebono, the first American Yokozuna, and Takanohana, the young Japanese superstar on the rise.

It was the first time I could talk sports around the watercooler with my colleagues, something many people take for granted.

Later I was back in Japan with two young sons. It was during Asashōryū 's winning streak. I had fun turning the boys onto the sport.

Now I follow on-line. Thirty years later and I still enjoy it.

[Nixie]

35. It looks to me like the immediate situation is he's trying to rush

her in front of the cameras and off the plane. That looks like an exasperated shove to go on then and leave her alone. I’m just taking into account the stress of travel and constant cameras and the pressure especially on women to look good all the time. Maybe she needed more time to compose herself.

She shouldn’t have done that, and who will ever really know what it was about, but it looks like she was being rushed and didn’t like it. He is anxiously trying to get going, and she’s not ready.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

37. That was NOT a "slap"

Oh but it's a fiasco that shouldn't have happened yet deserves endless salacious speculation!!! Freedom fries!!11!!

How petty and voyeuristic.

[JoseBalow]

38. Cherchez la femme

[milestogo]

40. Melanoma: watch and learn.

[Niagara]

41. Macron looked surprised or confused as the hand shoved at his mouth pushing him back a bit

He gained his composure and smiled and waved at the cameras.

He still waited for her so that they could descend the steps together.

He extended his arm to his wife like a gentleman would for a lady.

She ignores it.

This wasn't playful banter, this was a disagreement between the couple.

I don't know what their marriage is like so hopefully this unfriendly physical contact isn't a common occurrence.

[Mountainguy]

42. Wow...thats really looks like

None of my fucking business.

[Renew Deal]

45. I wonder if this is her first time physically abusing her husband.

[madville]

46. She treats him like a child

It has always seemed like that’s what their relationship dynamic is.

[LoveSucky]

49. Him being a child once upon a time, was her favorite feature

Creepy ass relationship.