Emmanuel Macron breaks silence over bizarre clip of wife Brigitte slapping him; ‘The videos are all real…’

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected a widely shared video that purports to show his wife Brigitte pulling his face away as they stepped off an aircraft in Vietnam for the opening leg of a Southeast Asia tour.

Speaking to media in Hanoi on Monday, Macron dismissed the rumors that the video caused.

“There’s a video showing me joking and teasing my wife and somehow that becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe, with people even coming up with theories to explain it,” the French President stated.

Macron condemned how the video had been used as a weapon, but he agreed that it was authentic. “The videos are all real, and yes, sometimes people tamper with them, but people are attributing all kinds of nonsense to them.”