WASHINGTON — President Trump supplied up a tip for France’s first household to protect home tranquility after his Paris counterpart Emmanuel Macron was publicly slapped by his wife Brigitte on a overseas journey earlier this week.
“Make sure that the door stays closed,” Trump chuckled within the Oval Workplace whereas responding to a query concerning the beautiful video of Madame Macron’s assault because the couple prepared to disembark in Vietnam Sunday night.
“That was not good,” Trump mentioned of the video.
“No, I spoke to him and he’s superb, they’re superb. They’re two actually good individuals. I do know them very nicely. And, I don’t know what that was all about however I do know him very nicely they usually’re superb.”
The household drama was caught on digital camera by way of the open door of the French president’s official aircraft and left Macron staggered earlier than he recovered himself and belatedly waved to watching reporters.
Brigitte didn’t take her husband’s arm once they walked down the steps of the aircraft — and a lip reader informed the UK’s Daily Express newspaper that she appeared to hiss “Dégage, espèce de loser” — or in English: “Keep away, you loser.”
“We’re squabbling and, quite, joking with my spouse,” Macron mentioned Monday concerning the incident, earlier than including: “Individuals are saying all types of nonsense. Everybody must settle down.”
Brigitte, 72, is 25 years older than the French president. The 2 started relationship when Emmanuel Macron was simply 15 and a pupil of the drama and literature instructor, who was a married mom of three.
Trump and Macron have had a notably jovial relationship because the Frenchman took workplace in 2017. The Macrons have been the US president’s friends of honor at his first state dinner in 2018, with the 2 males even exchanging the standard French “bise” on each cheeks.
In subsequent years, Trump has needled Macron with hard handshakes that threaten to devolve into private video games of tug-of-war.
