Teacher’s Pet No More: Brigitte Macron Reasserts School Time Dominance Mid-Descent in Vietnam! By Richard Miller (Londonistan)

French President Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia took a sudden, very physical turn Sunday evening when he was gently but unmistakably shoved in the face by his wife and his former literature teacher, Brigitte Macron, moments before stepping off the presidential jet in Vietnam.

The footage, now viral, shows the plane door swinging open to reveal Macron beaming statesman-like, until two arms, bearing all the authority of a retired lycée teacher correcting an insolent teen, emerge from the cabin and plant themselves squarely on his visage. A light push ensues. Macron stumbles. The Republic blinks.

As Macron straightened his tie and smiled like a boy who'd just been caught playing with the Bunsen burner unsupervised, the First Lady retreated tactically into the aircraft. Her expression remained unseen, though one imagines it to be Gallic indifference.

The Elysée's communications office immediately went into damage control, claiming the shove was "a playful, private exchange," and warning reporters not to "turn a marital moment into a geo-political earthquake."

Macron, speaking Monday while delicately icing his dignity, insisted it was a joke.

"We were squabbling and, rather, joking," he told the press. "This is the kind of intimacy you develop when your wife gave you your first essay feedback and threatened to call your parents."

The shove is already being dissected by marriage therapists, body language experts, and overqualified philosophers who haven't worked since Charlie Hebdo stopped returning their calls.

To some, it was an act of feminist assertion. To others, a tragic Freudian collision. But to those familiar with the couple's backstory, it was simply Brigitte marking a behavioural infraction on the disciplinary register of life.

For those just tuning in: Brigitte Macron, now 72, met Emmanuel when she was a 39-year-old high school teacher directing the theatre club. He was 15, precocious, and already dreaming of presidency, or at least permission to skip PE. Despite being his teacher (and the mother of his classmate), Brigitte took a particular interest in young Emmanuel, assigning him extra work, and, over time, her surname.

They married in 2007. He became president ten years later. Since then, critics and romantics alike have described their bond as "deep," "intellectual," and "textbook inappropriate in most OECD countries."

Now, 30 years since their first meeting, it appears Madame Macron's lesson plans still include disciplinary gestures.

Despite the awkwardness of the moment, Macron kept up appearances. He offered Brigitte his arm on the staircase, only for her to sidestep it with the elegance of a woman who's spent three decades deflecting adolescent nonsense.

One witness claims she muttered something about "posture" and "that tie being a metaphor for weak governance," though this remains unconfirmed.

Conspiracy theorists, never far behind any French incident involving physical contact and international travel, have spun the shove into everything from a coded message to MI6, to a sign of NATO disunity, to a false-flag operation staged by the Russians to destabilise the francophone world order.

The Kremlin, perhaps distracted, has yet to weigh in, being too busy bombing and getting ready for nuclear war.

Still, Macron's defenders insist the shove was affectionate.

"They decompress before big diplomatic meetings by roleplaying famous literary scenes," said one aide. "Last week was La Princesse de Clèves. This week appears to be Lord of the Flies."

The President is continuing his week-long tour through Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore, reportedly seeking to position France as the "mature middle child" between the U.S. and China.

Meanwhile, Brigitte is said to be reviewing footage of the shove in slow motion and correcting his posture with a red pen.

As the President pushes on with talks about trade, technology, and global strategy, aides have reportedly added one more item to his schedule: an afternoon detention for "cheeky insolence and flippancy during formal descent."

Yes, these are the people deciding the future of Western civilisation, with their fingers on that little red nuclear button.

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"French President Emmanuel Macron's wife shoved him in the face as they touched down in Vietnam for a state visit — which the embarrassed-looking leader admitted Monday came while they were "squabbling."

Shocking footage of the incident shows the president's plane door opening to reveal Macron at the entrance in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Sunday evening.

Suddenly, his wife Brigitte's arms emerge from the left of the open doorway as she places both hands on her husband's face and shoves him firmly.

Macron appears startled — but quickly recovers when realizing he is in view, and turns to smile and wave through the open door.

The French first lady remains concealed inside the aircraft, making it impossible to see her facial expression or body language.

Brigitte then doesn't take her husband's proffered arm as they walk down the staircase, where Vietnamese officials greet them.

Macron's office initially denied the authenticity of the footage before confirming it was genuine, with the leader trying to downplay it.

"We are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife," Macron said Monday, adding that the incident was being overblown into "a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe" by his enemies.

"People are saying all sorts of nonsense. Everyone needs to calm down," he added.

Insiders in Macron's team also tried to downplay the spat.

"It was a moment when the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by joking around," a source close to the president told AFP.

"It's a moment of togetherness. No more was needed to feed the mills of the conspiracy theorists," the source added, accusing pro-Russian disinformation accounts for spinning the clip.

Brigitte Macron, 72, has been married to her husband, 47, since 2007.

The couple met in 1993 when she was a 39-year-old high school teacher and the future French head of state was her 15-year-old student and a classmate of her daughter.

Macron touched down in the former French colony of Vietnam for the start of his week-long tour of Southeast Asia.

He is expected to pitch France as a reliable alternative to the United States and China.

Other stops on the tour include Indonesia and Singapore.