Additionally, his expression is really serious. My hypothesis is that he was clenching his mouth and his jaw muscles were bulging as a result of the pressure from those lips.
“We’re having a lot of fun.”
Macron maintains that the entire situation is being exaggerated, despite the proliferation of online hypotheses.
According to France24, Macron told reporters, “We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife.” “It turns into a geo-planetary disaster of sorts.”
🟡 BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS OF BRIGITTE SHOVING EMMANUELLE MACRON'S FACE
(1/7) Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron were arriving in Vietnam when the cameras captured this interaction.
But was it an actual, aggressive gesture, or was something else? let's find out… pic.twitter.com/HCMdtBk2nu
— Jesús Enrique Rosas – The Body Language Guy (@Knesix) May 26, 2025
The President has been supported by Élysée Palace, which has described it as “a moment of complicity.”
“It was a moment where the president and his wife were horsing around to decompress one last time before the trip started,” the
Palace stated. It’s a complicit moment. It was all that was required to provide conspiracy theorists with fodder.
