{"id":4208,"date":"2026-04-02T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/4208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:03:27","slug":"trump-sparks-outrage-after-mocking-macron-over-video-of-him-being-shoved-by-wife-brigitte-hes-still-recovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/4208\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sparks outrage after mocking Macron over video of him being \u2018shoved\u2019 by wife Brigitte: \u2018He\u2019s still recovering\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President<\/a> Donald Trump<\/a> has sparked outrage after mocking an altercation between<\/a> French<\/a> president Emmanuel Macron<\/a> and his wife<\/a> Brigitte in which she appeared to push him in the face.<\/p>\n

In comments made during a private lunch, Trump appeared to express frustration over a lack of support for his war in Iran from Nato and European allies having earlier <\/a>suggested that he was \u201cabsolutely\u201d considering withdrawing America from the alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn’t need them, but I asked anyway,\u201d he said in a video that was briefly posted to the White House\u2019s YouTube channel on Wednesday, before it was taken down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call up France, Macron \u2013 whose wife treats him extremely badly… <\/a>Still recovering from the right to the jaw.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments appeared to be a reference to a viral video that circulated<\/a> last year that shows Macron\u2019s wife shoving the French politician as they attempted to leave their plane in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Asked about the remarks during a trip to South Korea, Macron said they were \u201cneither elegant nor up to standard\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Macron<\/p>\n

Macron has said the comments were \u2018neither elegant nor up to standard\u2019 (AP)<\/p>\n

Politicians across France, including staunch opponents of Macron, have defended the French leader after Trump\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, it’s not up to par,” said Yael Braun-Pivet, president of France’s lower house of parliament in comments to Franceinfo on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently discussing the future of the world. Right now in Iran, this is having consequences for the lives of millions of people, people are dying on the battlefield, and we have a president who is laughing, who is mocking others.\u201d<\/p>\n

The leader of France\u2019s radical left La France Insoumise party, Even Manuel Bompard, told BFMTV<\/a>: \u201cYou are aware of the extent of my disagreements with the president, but for Donald Trump to speak to him like that and to speak of his wife in such a manner \u2013 I find that absolutely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Macron<\/p>\n

Macron was seen apparently being shoved in the face by his wife Brigitte (AP)<\/p>\n

An Elysee official initially played down the moment at the time of the incident last year, saying: \u201cIt was a moment when the president and his wife were relaxing one last time before the start of the trip by having a laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macron later admitted that the couple had been \u201csquabbling\u201d and that the attention to the incident was surprising to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife,\u201d he told reporters in the aftermath of the video. \u201cI\u2019m surprised by it, it turns into some kind of global catastrophe where people are even coming up with theories to explain it. It\u2019s nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has sparked outrage after mocking an altercation between French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[4944,12,242,245,3627,4945],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-emmanuel-macron","tag-brigitte","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-president-of-france","tag-viral-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116335018192560267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}