Macron Insists Wife Shove Was Just Them Being Sexy and French, You Provincial Hacks

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron whipped the internet and conservative media into a frenzy over the weekend, when video circulated showing the latter aggressively shoving the former’s face just before they stepped off a plane in Vietnam. Were they in the midst of a domestic dispute? Does the French first lady regularly manhandle her husband when she’s seemingly unaware that cameras are rolling? Is their marriage in trouble? According to the French president, none of the above. Instead, what people saw was merely part of their standard repartee, which he doesn’t expect prudes like you to understand.

On Monday, Macron said he and his wife were simply “bickering and, rather, joking around,” saying that’s something “we often do.” Speaking to TMZ, a French official called the interaction “a