The US president made a lighthearted remark about a video appearing to show France’s First Lady pushing her husband on an airplane, saying, “Make sure the door remains closed.”
Following a video that seemed to show Brigitte Macron pushing Emmanuel Macron aboard their plane, US President Donald Trump commented that the French President is “fine.”
The video, which quickly went viral, was taken on May 25 in Hanoi, Vietnam, as the French first couple arrived for a Southeast Asia tour. The footage shows Macron speaking to someone off-camera as the aircraft door opened. Then, two arms in red sleeves reached out and touched his face, covering his mouth and jaw. After noticing the cameras, he stepped back, smiled, and waved. Brigitte, wearing a red jacket, then appeared beside him. Macron offered his arm, but she declined, and they walked down the stairs together.
When asked on Friday if he had any marital advice for Macron, Trump joked, “Make sure the door remains closed.”
He also said, “That was not good,” and mentioned speaking to Macron after the incident. “He’s fine, they’re fine,” Trump stated.
“They’re two really good people I know very well,” he added. “I don’t know what that was all about.”
Macron has dismissed the incident, telling reporters that they were simply “having fun.”
He also addressed two other recent viral videos, saying, “A lot of lunatics are spending their days interpreting all these videos.”
One video, taken on a train to Ukraine, showed Macron with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Macron briefly hid a small object, leading to online rumors of drug use, which the Elysee palace called baseless.
Another video, from the European Political Community summit in Albania two weeks prior, showed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gripping Macron’s finger while seated, which some interpreted as a power play.
Macron confirmed that all three videos were real but dismissed the interpretations surrounding them.
He and Brigitte have been married since 2007, having met when he was a student and she was a teacher at his high school in Amiens. She is 24 years his senior.
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