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Trump says Macron 'fine' after viral shoving incident with wife

Justin Sink, Bloomberg News on

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke to Emmanuel Macron after a viral video showed the French president being shoved in the face by his wife.

“He’s fine. They’re fine. They’re two really good people I know very well, and I don’t know what that was all about,” Trump said Friday after being asked about the incident by a reporter in the Oval Office.

Macron said the moment — which occurred right before he and his wife Brigitte disembarked a plane in Hanoi, Vietnam — was simply an instance of playfighting.

“We are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife,” the French president said, adding that the episode was being overblown into “a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.”

 

“Everyone needs to calm down,” he added.

Trump, for his part, offered advice to his French counterpart: “Make sure the door remains closed.”


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