{"id":469025,"date":"2025-05-26T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/french-president-says-alleged-slap-of-his-wife-was-a-joke-and-calls-for-calm\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:46:04","slug":"french-president-says-alleged-slap-of-his-wife-was-a-joke-and-calls-for-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/french-president-says-alleged-slap-of-his-wife-was-a-joke-and-calls-for-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"French President says alleged slap of his wife was a &#8220;joke&#8221; and calls for &#8220;calm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vietnam.- <\/strong>It was a &#8220;joke&#8221; the supposed slap that the President of France, <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, received from his wife <strong>Brigitte Macron<\/strong>, upon landing at Hanoi airport (Vietnam), as announced by the president in his first statements after the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>My wife and I were joking, as we usually do<\/strong> (&#8230;) For three weeks, there have been people who have watched videos and believe that I shared a bag of cocaine, that I had a one-on-one with a Turkish president and that I now have a <strong>domestic dispute with my wife<\/strong>. None of this is true,&#8221; the president has assured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">El presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, fue abofeteado en la cara por su esposa, Brigitte Macron, antes de salir del avi\u00f3n presidencial durante su visita oficial a Han\u00f3i, Vietnam. Al abrirse la puerta de la aeronave se observa al mandatario conversando con su esposa, quien le\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n6g0eFw9VO\">pic.twitter.com\/n6g0eFw9VO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; De \u00daltimo Minuto (@UltimominutoTW) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UltimominutoTW\/status\/1926983633765552188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to these statements, the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace had reacted to the viral episode by indicating that it was &#8220;a moment of complicity&#8221; between the spouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moment was captured on camera by the American agency <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press (AP)<\/a> and has generated international uproar. In the recording, it gives the impression of being a physical assault, reproaching something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/macron-recibe-bofetada\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/macron-recibe-bofetada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macron slapped by his wife Brigitte upon arrival in Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video shows how <strong>the first lady&#8217;s hand hits her husband in the face<\/strong>, specifically in the mouth area. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What gives him away is <strong>Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s surprised face when he sees that they are being recorded<\/strong>. Immediately afterwards, the French president composes himself and greets, as if nothing is happening. The presidential couple then descended the plane&#8217;s steps, Macron offers his arm to his wife, as he usually does, but she doesn&#8217;t take it and holds onto the handrail of the walkway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam.- It was a &#8220;joke&#8221; the supposed slap that the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, received from his wife Brigitte Macron, upon landing at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":469027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_dum_aida_pretitle":"","_dum_aida_subtitle":"","_dum_aida_city":"","_dum_aida_author":"","_dum_aida_caption":"","_dum_aida_captionauthor":"","_dum_aida_quote":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntitle":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntext":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13688,40622,40778],"class_list":["post-469025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-slap"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Y0V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-05-26T094047.814.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-05-26T094047.814.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}