Emmanuel Macron's wife seen shoving him in the face in viral clip as France's first couple arrives in Vietnam

French archetypal woman Brigitte Macron was seen shoving her husband, French President Emmanuel Macron, successful the look portion the mates was waiting to disembark their level successful Hanoi, Vietnam.

Video of the incidental showed a uniformed antheral opening the level doorway arsenic Macron was seen wearing a suit and lasting successful the doorway. Brigitte Macron's arms – successful reddish sleeves – could beryllium seen reaching retired and pushing Macron away, with 1 manus covering his rima and portion of his chemoreceptor portion the different was connected his jaw. The French president turned his caput distant but abruptly noticed quality cameras capturing the moment. He rapidly smiled and waved earlier exiting the doorway frame.

Macron and his woman aboriginal disembarked the stairs of the craft together. The French president offered his arm, though the archetypal woman – seen wearing a reddish blazer – did not instrumentality clasp of it. 

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In this drawback taken from video, French President Emmanuel Macron prepares to disembark a level connected accomplishment successful Hanoi, Vietnam, connected Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

As the clip, recorded by The Associated Press, rapidly went viral, Macron said that helium and his woman were play-fighting.

The header of a communicative connected the website of the regular Le Parisien paper asked, "Slap oregon ‘squabble’? The images of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron disembarking successful Vietnam trigger a batch of comment."

Macron told reporters that the mates — who met astatine a French precocious schoolhouse wherever helium was a teenage student, and she was a astir 39-year-old joined teacher — were simply joking around. Emmanuel was 29 erstwhile helium joined Brigitte successful 2007.

"We are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife," helium said, according to the AP, adding that the incidental was being overblown into "a benignant of geo-planetary catastrophe."

The French person argued that the images and absorption to them offered a cautionary communicative astir disinformation successful the societal media age. 

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French President Emmanuel Macron and his woman Brigitte Macron disembark from the level upon their accomplishment astatine Noi Bai International Airport successful Hanoi, Vietnam, connected May 25, 2025. (LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

"Everyone needs to calm down," helium said.

Macron's bureau besides downplayed the interaction. 

"It was a infinitesimal wherever the president and his woman were decompressing 1 past clip earlier the commencement of the travel by horsing around. It’s a infinitesimal of complicity. It was each that was needed to springiness ammunition to the conspiracy theorists," his bureau said, according to the AP.

Macron's bureau besides reportedly told CNN that the clip showed a "moment of togetherness," and that the French president and his woman were unwinding aft a agelong travel and playfully teasing each other. 

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Macron is touring Southeast Asia this weekend.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.