A video in which French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be shoved in the face by his wife Brigitte on Sunday has gone viral, although Macron claims that he and his wife were joking.
Macron, age 47, is shown in the video standing in front of the plane’s exit doors, when the hands of his wife Brigitte, 72, suddenly emerge from off-screen, pushing his face.
Macron then swivels around to the camera before flashing a smile and waving. He quickly walks out of view.
The video, which is authentic, does not make clear the context of the push. The incident occurred as the couple arrived in Vietnam to begin a tour of Southeast Asia.
Macron downplayed the significance of the shove.
“I was bickering, or rather joking, with my wife,” Macron later told reporters, per a translation. “It’s nothing.”
His office told Reuters that the clip was “a moment of…
