French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd, L) and his wife shake hands with chef Didier Corlou (L) in Hanoi on May 27, 2025. Photo courtesy of Madame Hien restaurant ...

Mr Macron initially dismissed the incident from Hanoi as a joke between the couple, but he later expressed frustration that the video had “become some kind of planetary catastrophe”.

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were “fine,” after a viral video appeared to show her shoving the French president’s face on a trip to Vietnam.

French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a display of photographs at a luncheon with Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam at Van Mieu, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday May 26, 2025.

Mr Macron initially dismissed the incident from Hanoi as a joke between the couple, but he later expressed frustration that the video had “become some kind of planetary catastrophe”.