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Scottish Sun
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Trump reveals marriage advice he offered Macron after discussing disturbing Brigitte slap with French president
DONALD Trump has given Emmanuel Macron marriage advice following viral footage of the French President being shoved in the face by his wife. The unbelievable video was captured as the pair landed in Vietnam for the start of a tour of Southeast Asia last week. 5 Donald Trump revealed his advice to Macron following his humiliating smack Credit: Getty 5 The French President was recorded being hit in the face by his wife Credit: Reuters 5 The pair put on a united front following the viral clip Credit: EPA It showed the embarrassing moment he was smacked in the face by his former teacher and wife Brigitte, just before they were about to get off the presidential aircraft. Fox News correspondent Deter Doocy questioned the Don about the bizarre clip. He asked "Do you have any world leader-to-world leader marital advice?" The President responded: "Make sure the door remains closed." His advice was met with laughter in the Oval Office where he was holding a good-bye press conference for departed DOGE head Elon Musk. Trump, who has been married three times, also joked about Macron: "That was not good. "I spoke to him." He said: "He's fine. They're fine. They're two really good people. "I know him very well, and I don't know what that was all about." Trump added: "But I know him very well, and they're fine." Bizarre moment Emmanuel Macron is SLAPPED by his wife Brigitte while 'bickering' as they got off plane in Vietnam His comments prompted an interjection from Musk, who said: "I know a little shiner here." The world's richest man quipped about is clearly visible black eye. He later revealed the source of his injury, saying: "I was just horsing around with Little X. "I said go ahead, punch me in the face." "And he did. Turns out even a five year old punching you in the face," Musk explained. In the jaw-dropping footage of Macron being slapped by his wife last Sunday evening, he is seen facing Brigitte with a stern look. Within seconds, Brigitte's arms pop into view, with both of them raised to Macron's face in what appears to be a small blow and shove. Appearing shocked, the French leader immediately notices the doors open and quickly turns to wave at the sea of cameras at the bottom of the plane steps. 5 French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media in Singapore on May 30 during his Asia tour Credit: AP 5 Trump and Elon Musk in a farewell press conference in the Oval Office Credit: Reuters The couple then emerge together from the aircraft and walk down the staircase, with Macron extending his arm to his wife. But she takes hold of the handrail of the walkway for support instead, potentially due to an explosive argument they could have had inside. The clip of the fighting couple rapidly went viral, with media trying to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane. But Macron slammed claims that the pair were in a heated argument and instead said they were joking around. He then appeared to laugh off the viral incident by creeping his hand round the corner of his jet's entrance for a brief, mocking wave as he prepared to be welcomed to Indonesia. What does the body language say? Our body language expert Judi James takes a look at the shocking moment Macron appears to be slapped by his wife. Judi said: "I find it shocking that they've attempted to explain it by saying that it was just play, just a couple letting off steam. "Her hand comes out and presses against his face, and if anybody wants to try this on themselves, you'll feel how vulnerable it makes you feel. "Macron looks rather shocked. We can see later on, if we look at a close up of his hand, we can see that it's bored into a fist. The knuckles look white - so clearly a lot of pent up tension. "These are veterans of being on the world stage. "They know that when the plane lands, if they did want to have a little bit of fun and laughter, they would do it before they got to the plane door. "When we see them emerging, there's this attempt to sort of do a glow up, to pretend that nothing happened. "That's not normal body language behaviour in any relationship. I find it very worrying, as well as disturbing." After a brief moment, he walked out into full view at the top of the plane's stairs. But this time, he locked arms with his wife Brigitte as they headed out to greet officials. Macron gave the cameras a thumbs up as the couple began to descend the stairs. Although French officials have dismissed negative speculation, the eyebrow-raising incident is just the latest in a relationship that has been plagued with scandal and controversy. The French president was just 15 years old (which is the age of consent in France) when he met the woman who he would go on to make his First Lady. At the time she was 39 years old and married with three children - and his drama teacher in school. Body language expert Judi James said that Brigette, 25 years Macron's senior, seemingly attacked her husband in a non-playful manner.
India Today
a day ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
Trump reacts to Emmanuel Macron, wife slap video; says couple was ‘just joking'
US President Donald Trump reacted to the viral clip involving French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, which sparked widespread speculation online, while addressing the media from the Oval Office on clip, filmed as the couple arrived in Vietnam, shows Brigitte playfully pushing Macron in the face as they disembark a about the moment during an Oval Office press event with Elon Musk, Trump said he had spoken to Macron and reassured reporters that 'they're fine.'advertisement 'They're two really good people I know very well, and I don't know what that was all about,' Trump a lighthearted response to a question on 'world leader to world leader marital advice,' Trump quipped, 'Make sure the door remains closed,' prompting laughter in the room. The video, which quickly went viral, initially prompted denial from the lyse Palace, calling the footage fake. However, they later confirmed its authenticity and clarified the interaction was a private moment of echoed this, telling reporters: 'We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife. It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.'The French President and his wife met when Macron was a student and Brigitte was his teacher. The incident was further described as 'a moment of complicity' that was unfortunately seized upon by conspiracy theorists 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.
Economic Times
a day ago
- Politics
- Economic Times
Forget the viral slap: The story of how Emmanuel Macron first met his 25-year-older wife Brigitte is even more shocking
Forget the viral swat—what truly shocks is how President Emmanuel Macron fell in love with his high school teacher, Brigitte, nearly 25 years his senior. Their relationship began when he was just 15. Despite early resistance from Macron's parents, the couple's bond endured. Their controversial romance has stood the test of time and continues to fascinate the world. A viral 'slap' video of French President Emmanuel Macron reignited public curiosity about his relationship with wife Brigitte. The pair met when Macron was 15 and Brigitte, then his 39-year-old teacher. Despite objections from his parents and public scrutiny over their 25-year age gap, the couple married in 2007 and have remained inseparable through political highs and lows. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads A Forbidden Bond Takes Root Parents in Shock: "We Didn't Say, 'How Wonderful!'" Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Letters, Long Distance, and an Unshakable Promise Viral Slap or Playful Banter? While social media buzzed over a viral video that appeared to show French President Emmanuel Macron being swatted or scolded by his wife Brigitte upon arrival in Vietnam, the online sleuthing unearthed something far more startling than a playful slap: the unconventional origin story of their relationship. And as it turns out, the real drama between the Macrons dates back decades—long before their political ascension and viral was 1993 in the sleepy city of Amiens in northern France when 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron first met Brigitte Trogneux, his 39-year-old drama and French teacher. While Brigitte was helping young Macron master monologues, what unfolded between the teacher and her student would one day scandalize a nation—and captivate the was married to banker André Auzière at the time and was a mother of three. Macron, meanwhile, was a precocious teenager with an intense passion for literature and performance. They met during drama rehearsals at La Providence , a private Catholic secondary school. By the time rumors of their bond began to circulate, Macron's parents were forced to confront a situation they could scarcely to biographer Anne Fulda, who penned Emmanuel Macron: A Perfect Young Man, Macron's parents initially assumed their son was dating one of Brigitte's daughters. When they learned the truth—from a family friend, no less—it was, in the words of Macron's mother Françoise, 'unbelievable.''We just couldn't believe it. What is clear is that when Emmanuel met Brigitte, we couldn't just say, 'That's great,'' she told Fulda according to a report from The father, Jean-Michel Macron, was equally stunned: 'We certainly did not say, 'How wonderful!'' The Macrons pulled their son out of the school, hoping to cool the flames of a relationship that was already defying boundaries. Brigitte, when urged to wait until Macron turned 18, allegedly told his parents: 'I cannot promise you anything.'Despite being separated geographically—Macron was sent to Paris to study at the elite Lycée Henri-IV—the emotional connection remained. 'It all unfolded very slowly,' Brigitte recalled in a 2017 Elle France interview. 'We wrote to each other all the time.'Macron, unwavering in his pursuit, told Brigitte he would return and marry her. That vow became reality in 2007 when the couple tied the knot. He was 29. She was time, their age gap—now 25 years—has become more of a punchline than a point of tension between them. 'It's a joke between us,' Brigitte once said. 'Anything anyone might say is just a big nothing.'The couple's unique dynamic made headlines again recently when a clip from their visit to Hanoi seemed to show Brigitte giving her husband a slap on the back of the head. Lip readers called the exchange 'frosty,' but Macron laughed it off, calling it a 'joke' between them. Yet that fleeting moment reignited public curiosity into one of the most unusual love stories in modern union, forged in controversy and tempered over time, has withstood political storms, public scrutiny , and now, even viral videos . But as Brigitte once said with a shrug, 'There are times in your life where you need to make crucial choices.' For the Macrons, it seems, that choice was made long before the world was watching.
LeMonde
2 days ago
- Business
- LeMonde
Macron tries to promote his 'third way' in Indonesia
Emmanuel Macron departed Indonesia on Thursday, May 29, hand in hand with his wife, Brigitte, bidding farewell from the presidential A330 to his host, Prabowo Subianto. The French president was concluding the second leg of a Southeast Asian tour that had taken him to Vietnam earlier in the week and would take him to Singapore, where he was set to open the Shangri-La Dialogue, a summit on industry and defense, on Friday. Alongside the ceremonial honors extended by the Indonesian president, Macron secured a collection of partnership promises and business commitments, in areas from agri-food to cinema, allowing France to tap into what he called the "new Indonesian wave." The Elysée said "€17 billion in contracts" were signed in Jakarta, without disclosing any details about the deals. In the defense sector, Paris had hoped to sell additional Rafale fighter jets, following an order of 42 aircraft in 2022. For now, Indonesia only signed a letter of intent on Wednesday, committing to purchase "additional Rafales from Dassault, as well as light frigates, Scorpène submarines from Naval Group and Caesar cannons and their munitions from KNDS France," Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on X (formerly Twitter).
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
JAN MOIR: The supercilious denials about THAT smack from the Macrons are just so Gallic - and so galling!
Suddenly, French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte are madly in love! Oh, look everyone. Toast yourself in the furnace of their new-found ardour. They kiss in public, they hug like bugs in a rug, they suddenly seem keen on presenting a united front to the world.
