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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Donald Trump’s mocking comments about his marriage did not merit a response, calling them “neither elegant nor up to standard”. […] On Wednesday, Trump made fun of the French president and his wife at a private lunch as he lambasted NATO allies for not joining the war against Iran. The US president imitated a French accent and said that Macron’s wife “treats him extremely badly” and that Macron was still “recovering from the right to the jaw”. On a visit to Seoul, Macron, who was accompanied by his wife Brigitte, said Trump’s comments...

“Make sure the door remains closed,” the US president has quipped over a video showing France’s First Lady shoving her husband on a plane US President Donald Trump has said Emmanuel Macron is “fine” following an incident in which his wife Brigitte appeared to slap her husband aboard their plane.The footage, which quickly went viral, was filmed as the French first couple arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, on May 25 to begin a Southeast Asia tour. As the aircraft door opened, Macron was seen speaking to someone off-camera. Two arms in red sleeves then reached out and pushed his face,...

President Trump offered some hilarious “marital advice” for French President Emmanuel Macron after the latter’s humiliating incident earlier this week. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Macron was publicly humiliated as he arrived for a state visit to Vietnam. As the airplane door was opened, the whole world could see his controversial wife, Brigitte, smacking him in the face. Macron took a look and saw that he was being filmed, so he smiled and pretended nothing had happened. But as the power couple descended the plane’s stairs, Brigitte refused to hold his hand, leaving the French President with a tense face...

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Is the president of France his wife's puppet? Is she like, maybe, a super-charged Jill Biden, commanding her commands from behind the scenes ... or else? Or is Emmanuel Macron in a spousal abuse situation, the way Kamala Harris appeared to be, given the reports out there about her hubby, Doug Emhoff, and the credible accusations of against him by a past girlfriend who said he hit her so hard she spun around. Brigitte Macron was caught on camera actually beating her husband: Brigitte Macron slaps her husband in the face, as he exits aircraft. The French President’s office branded...

French President Emmanual Macron has been told that he is too arrogant by his own wife Brigitte, who claims she is fed up of his high-handed manner. Brigitte Macron has urged his inner circle to tell him the truth because she feels like she is the only person who risks telling him when he is being high-handed, reports Le Parisien newspaper. She reportedly confided in members of her entourage that President Macron is “too arrogant, too snappy”, and nobody dares tell him otherwise. This comes as a new book revealed Mrs.. Macron has allegedly vowed retribution to the person who...

The French president had been speaking in English, and some watching the press conference were not quite sure if they had heard correctly - or if Mr Macron had, indeed, committed a little lèse majesté. Recordings of the exchange quickly confirmed that Mr Macron had referred to Mrs Lucy Hughes Turnbull, recipient of the order of Australia and chief of the Greater Sydney Commission, as "delicious". ... The French word is délicieux, which can be used to describe a very tasty meal. But it can also be used to refer to something very good or very agreeable, in the sense...

Brigitte Macron was given a male name on her personal tax record by a team of hackers, a French government official has said. The 72-year-old first lady of France has long been the subject of rumours questioning her gender, which have been shared by conspiracy theorists and social media influencers online for several years. The rumour falsely claims that Mrs Macron was born a male and that her real name is Jean-Michel Trogneux. In reality, her maiden name is Trogneux and she has a brother called Jean-Michel. The smear campaign went as far as hacking into her personal tax account...

Right-wing commentator Cadance Owens dropped her bombshell after teasing over the weekend that she got information that Tyler Robinson was framed in the case of Charlie Kirk's assassination. She said that everything the agencies told about the Charlie Kirk assassination has been a lie. She said a politician's name came up as she dug deeper into the case. Candace said she knows everything is a lie because law enforcement is even lying that Tyler Robinson, the accused, is suicidal. Candace questioned how Tyler Robinson was willing to turn himself in but did not confess. He was 'bewildered' to have known...

Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs Macron is a woman. Their lawyer says the French president and Mrs Macron will present the documentation in a defamation suit they have taken against the right-wing influencer Candace Owens after she promoted her belief that Brigitte Macron was born male. Ms Owens' lawyers have responded with a motion to dismiss the claim. Speaking to the BBC's Fame Under Fire podcast, the Macrons' lawyer in the case, Tom Clare, said Mrs Macron had found the claims "incredibly upsetting" and...

Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs Macron is a woman. Their lawyer says the French president and Mrs Macron will present the documentation in a defamation suit they have taken against the right-wing influencer Candace Owens after she promoted her belief that Brigitte Macron was born male. Ms Owens' lawyers have responded with a motion to dismiss the claim. Speaking to the BBC's Fame Under Fire podcast, the Macrons' lawyer in the case, Tom Clare, said Mrs Macron had found the claims "incredibly upsetting" and...

Macron’s ‘Palestine’ Ploy: Slapped at Home, Pandering Abroad in a Desperate Power Grab. Slapped in Paris, Scheming in Ramallah: Desperate Appeal to the Arab Street - at least.Macron’s Popularity Craters in 2025 Amid Personal and Political Turmoil Once hailed as a visionary centrist, French President Emmanuel Macron has become one of the most unpopular leaders on the global stage in 2025. According to 'Visual Capitalist', Macron now suffers from a disapproval rating exceeding 60%, placing him among the least liked leaders worldwide—alongside figures like Pedro Sánchez and Olaf Scholz. Macron’s domestic reputation has hit rock bottom. A damning 'Ifop' poll...

As you may recall, Candace Owens ran a series of podcasts earlier this year in which she claimed the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, was actually a trans woman. A couple weeks ago, the Macrons sued Owens in a US court, seeking damages for 22 separate counts of defamation. There's no dollar amount in the complaint but it's presumably going to run into six or seven figures. For the record, Owens doesn't deny that there was a person named Brigitte Trogneux who was born a woman. Her story is that at some point, for unknown reasons, Brigitte disappeared and...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife delivered a scathing four-word remark just moments after shoving him in the face, a lip reader has revealed. Shocking footage showed Brigitte Macron, 72, place both hands on her husband’s face before shoving him firmly just moments after the president’s plane door opened upon arrival in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Sunday evening. While the embarrassed-looking leader claimed the pair were “squabbling,” a professional lip reader has since decoded the shocking exchange. “As the aircraft door opens, President Macron is seen turning toward Brigitte. In an unexpected moment, she pushes him in the face,” a...

False rumours that Brigitte Macron is transgender have been spreading for years. Now Candace Owens, an American far right commentator, has published a video repeating them and gaining millions of views. The debunked conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president Emmanuel Macron, was born a biological man and transitioned to become a woman has been pushed many times in recent years. On Friday, far-right US commentator Candace Owens released a video titled Becoming Brigitte: An Introduction. In it, she rehashes the claim that Macron was born a man and went by Jean-Michel Trogneux. She also claims to...

The trial against two women who made false claims that France's first lady Brigitte Macron was transgender, sparking conspiracy theories among the far-right, opened on Wednesday. The wife of president Emmanuel Macron sued self-proclaimed spiritual medium Amandine Roy and conspiracy theorist Natacha Rey for posting a four-hour long video to YouTube claiming that she had once been a man named 'Jean-Michel', which went viral weeks before the 2022 presidential election.

Candace Owens has wagered her career that French President Emmanuel Macron's wife was born a man. The controversial conservative commentator took to X to tout the false theory, hours after outlining it on an episode of her podcast. It goes that French First Lady Brigitte Macron, 70, was actually born Jean-Michel Trogneux, before eventually transitioning at age 30.

French President Emmanuel Macron has angrily hit back at longstanding conspiracy theories that his 70-year-old wife Brigitte was born a man and is transgender, calling them “false and fabricated.” Macron, 47, was unusually candid and emotional about the ongoing speculation in certain right-wing circles about Brigitte Macron, whom he married in 2007. “The worst thing is the false information and fabricated scenarios,” Macron said at an International Women’s Day event in Paris Friday after he guaranteed the right to abortion in France’s Constitution. “People eventually believe them and disturb you, even in your intimacy.” Brigitte’s lookalike daughter, attorney Tiphaine Auzaine,...

(2AM SATURDAY EASTERN US TIME, 8AM IN FRANCE) Tomorrow February 17th will mark the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests in France, a response to the economic-tax policies of President Emmanuel Macron. And a special protest is planned in Paris in connection with the anniversary tomorrow afternoon. But for today a nationwide protest schedule including multiple locations in Paris. Bordeaux, Marseille and other locations also involved today....