French first lady Brigitte Macron appeared to push her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia this weekend. President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture \u2014 caught on camera \u2014 as just horseplay, but it caused a stir back home.<\/p>\n
French media on Monday tried to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane. The headline of a story on the website of the daily Le Parisien newspaper asked: \u201cSlap or \u2018squabble\u2019? The images of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron disembarking in Vietnam trigger a lot of comment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Macron later told reporters that the couple \u2014 married since 2007 after meeting at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher \u2014 were simply joking around, The AP news reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife,\u201d he said, adding that the incident was being overblown: \u201cIt becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n
His office earlier offered a similar explanation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a moment where the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around. It\u2019s a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists,” his office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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