Brigette macron hits Emmanuel

[Stressedout150]

has anyone seen this on the news?! What do we all think, it’s all a bit bizarre

For those thinking this was her wiping his face, watch this video from Sky which is more zoomed in. She shoves him with both hands.
https://news.sky.com/video/share-13374976

Thing is as she makes contact with his face and his face turns, he looks shocked, it doesn’t look jokey. Then his face changes again when he sees the open door. That interim moment before he sees the door could show a joke but it doesn’t, it shows something very different. The shock is before he realises the door is open, then it happens again when he notices the door.

To me it looks more like a jokey push to stop winding me up, no real force in it.

If it were an elbow into his side or a jokey slap on the shoulder it could just be horseplay but two hands up to his mouth?

Sorry the first line was a quote from a PP

Very weird relationship. It shouldn’t be about looks but he is one good looking man who could snap his fingers and get a beautiful and smart companion. He obviously really does love her and/or is completely enmeshed/ codependent with her at this stage. She’s all he has ever known and the power balance was off from the start.

Exactly. She went for his face.
Their body language coming down the stairs doesn't show a couple who have been joking around either.

That comes down to individual interpretation. I didn't see it that way.

He could have been shocked before he looked around as he felt the door was open (cold air/noise), then face changed again as the realisation that the cameras had caught it and it would be all over the media dawned.

No one except those on the plane know.

Exactly what I said. The whole relationship has got Stockholm Syndrome vibes

They look like they are messing around. He doesn’t look remotely traumatised by it. She did it in front of all the plane staff so it is unlikely she is a sinister closet abuser.

Can you develop that please?

If you watch it in slow motion, there’s no ‘individual interpretation’ to it. Especially with her behaviour afterwards.

Keep minimising though 🙌

Exactly. Strange how some people on here seem to regard someone grabbing and shoving their partner’s face like this simply as a couple having a row.

They don’t look like this.

I am not minimising, but I am also not jumping to conclusions either. I said of course there could be more to it, but no one except those on the plane (and apparently you) really know. 🤷‍♀️

Yes, or some sort of horseplay. Really odd.

I know everyone is different but I'm trying to think of an occasion where it would be acceptable for my husband to push me in the face with both hands, and I really can't.

Dismissing potential abuse as ‘well we will never know’ is minimisation, especially when you can see an aggressive act taking place on camera.

This is how abusers get away with stuff, because people can see it happening and they go ‘well that might be playful but it’s not my business’. Playful my arse.

My fault if I didn't make it clear, but the "school" references were obvious and the idea of Macron being led around was meant to suggest a wish for domination on her part, which I'd have thought pretty well inevitable given the appalling mismatch in status when their "relationship" started

There seems to be a lot of that on this ‘story’

I understand there are some issues with the way they met but Her age is often an issue in a way that Trump & Melania’s isn’t (yeah they are weird but the age gap is rarely the issue) funny how those double standards work

It's the age gap combined with their ages at the time the relationship commenced. Melania was in her late 20s when she met Trump, she was an adult, living independently.

Macron was a child, and she was his teacher. It isn't comparable with the Trumps at all.

I really wonder if we’re seeing the same footage.
I don’t see any rubbing, it looks more like she’s pushing his face away with both hands.
https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1926992018879770640

She did shove his chin backwards, with both hands.
It does not look playful to me. But not full on agression- it was not a slap like some news oulets have in their headlines.
I think they were arguing. Because if it was playful in any way, you would expect Macron to be grinning or smiling. But he was not. He actually protected himself by holding her elbows.
Not acceptable.

I think the more pressing issue with Trump and Melania is why she is with a sexual abuser, rapist and misogynist, instead of their age gap. She was an adult and made a choice despite knowing what she (and the rest of us) knows. She heard her husband call his own daughter attractive. She made her choice, she gets no sympathy from me IF she is still choosing to be with him.

It’s obviously not joking around.

Then after when they are walking down the stairs he does that bent arm thing for her to link and she doesn’t