Emmanuel Macron invites wife Brigitte to stand by his side to celebrate soccer championship, week after infamous viral slap clip
French President Emmanuel Macron invited his wife to stand by his side Sunday to celebrate the Parisian soccer team winning the Champions League at the Elysee Palace, just a week after the first lady was caught slapping the president on video.
Macron gently took his wife Brigitte's hand in front of dozens of cameras as the couple cheered on the victorious team, following a tense week of speculation about their relationship status amid their public quarrel.
The shocking video showed Brigitte take both her hands and smash them into Macron's face as they were departing the presidential jet that had just landed in Hanoi for an official visit with Vietnamese dignitaries last Sunday.
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3 President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron stand side-by-side with the hometown championship soccer team one week removed from the viral slap.
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As they descended the stairs, the first lady appeared to mutter 'Dégage, espèce de loser' — or in English: 'Stay away, you loser' to her husband, a lip reader told the UK's Daily Express newspaper.
Footage of the soccer celebration this Sunday shared by the Daily Mail shows a much happier couple. With a broad smile, the French president encouraged his wife to join him as he stood with the players from the triumphant Paris Saint-Germain team.
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Macron welcomed the Paris Saint-Germain team back to the French capital Sunday after the athletes beat Inter Milan 5-0 Saturday night, hoisting the Champions League trophy for the first time in the club's history.
In Sunday's more cheerful video, Macron poses for photos with the jubilant team. He shouts 'bravo' and then happily calls for Brigitte to join them. The players can be seen moving out of the way so the first lady can stand with her husband.
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of the PSG, also encourages her to join the crowd, and moves aside for her, the clip shows.
3 Emmanuel Macron, holds up a soccer jersey, and his wife Brigitte welcomed the victorious French team.
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Then the video show Macron and his wife inviting others to join the photo op. Macron eventually steps forward to hold aloft a team jersey.
The pair tried to play off last week's highly publicized slap, as playful rough housing, then as Russian disinformation, but eventually conceded that the camera caught them mid-domestic squabble.
'At the beginning, the Elysee [Palace] denied the truth of the images, suggesting a video generated by AI and relayed by pro-Russian accounts before finally authenticating the sequence which [they said] evoked a moment of 'complicity,'' said news outlet Breves de Presse in a post on X Monday.
3 The shocking moment that First Lady Brigitte Macron slaps her husband French President Emmanuel Macron.
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President Trump offered up cheeky advice last week for France's first family to help keep the peace.
'Make sure the door remains closed,' Trump chuckled in the Oval Office while responding to a question about the stunning video of Madame Macron's assault.
'That was not good,' Trump said of the slap video.
'No, I spoke to him and he's fine, they're fine. They're two really good people. I know them very well. And, I don't know what that was all about, but I know him very well and they're fine.'
The pleasant meeting with the team came during a tumultuous time on the streets. Two fans died and a police officer is in a coma after mass nationwide celebrations turned into violent riots, French authorities said Sunday.
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