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Macron’s Reaction To Wife’s Push Suggests Deeper Tension, Expert Claims
Since video of French President Emmanuel Macron being “slapped” by his wife, Brigitte, went viral on social media, the internet has been in a tailspin.
The married pair, who are 25 years apart in age, arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday, May 25, to start their South-East Asia tour. They will also make stops in Indonesia and Singapore.
As workmen opened the plane’s door, 47-year-old Macron was seen standing at the exit in Associated Press footage. However, as the two prepared to go through the doorway and stairs, an arm emerged out of nowhere and seemed to “slap” Macron’s face.
After a few seconds, Brigitte, 72, followed her husband outside before they both went down the stairs to the runway.
A body language specialist has now chimed in on the incident amid the online avalanche of speculation, making a significant assertion regarding the precise time Macron’s wife “slapped” him.
‘Body Language Guy’ Jesús Enrique Rosas came to X on Monday, May 26, to express his opinions.
“Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron were arriving in Vietnam when the cameras captured this interaction,” he said at the start of the seven-tweet sequence.
“But was it an actual, aggressive gesture, or was something else? Let’s find out…”
Sharing a second-by-second breakdown using screenshotted images of the interaction, Rosas began with the bold claim, “This is one split second before the ‘shoving’. This is how we know that Macron didn’t expect the gesture, since his body was relaxed, he had a neutral expression and his left hand/wrist was relaxed as well.”
A thorough examination of what the expert called “the two stages of the’shovelling'” came next.
“I say shovelling because at first I thought it was a slap, but in fact Brigitte used both hands to push Macron’s head backwards,” he continued. “At the peak of the gesture, Macron realises everyone out there just witnessed the incident.”
Rosas continued: “He’s startled and tries to play it cool, greeting. I noticed that he made an unnecessary ‘anchor’ gesture, putting his left hand on the seat to his left.”
“This is something that we do under stress (touch the wall, a chair, something), without really leaning or using it as support. It’s obvious that he was startled.”
The expert then noticed that Macron and Brigitte ‘don’t get out of the plane immediately’, adding, “He takes a minute to compose himself. We can see a pacifying gesture of touching his nose.”
“When they are finally going down the stairs, he offers Brigitte his arm but Brigitte ignores him. Macron still keeps his arm bent for a few more steps until finally giving up.”
The world leader ‘gave a handshake to the guy waiting for them, and used a dominant handshake (palm down)’ when they got off the plane, Rosas added.
“Maybe he wanted to feel ‘dominant’ in one way of another after that shove. Better this than shoving Brigitte down the stairs, I guess,” he theorised.
Finally, Rosas examined the body language that followed “all the greeting.”
Tyla has contacted Macron’s aides to enquire about these allegations.
“Macron’s left hand is in a white knuckle fist, a common sign of concealed anger,” he penned. “His face is also beyond serious: that downward brow area is not part of his usual body language baseline.”
“He’s got a squarish head, but the jaw looks broader than usual. With those lips pressing, my guess is that he was clenching his jaw and his jaw muscles were protruding because of the pressure.”
The exchange may not have been what it first appeared to be, according to Macron’s subsequent claims.
According to France24, he then informed reporters that they had just been fooling about, saying, “We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife.”
The incident has been greatly exaggerated, Macron continued, adding, “It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.”
In the past, his office had also provided an explanation, stating that the pair was merely having fun.
“It was a moment where the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around,” a statement said. “It’s a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists.”
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