I'm sure you've seen the video:
My favorite part is his "Oh, hi" gesture, when he sees that the face push got caught on camera. And that you only see Brigitte's hand, not the rest of her — in the manner of Soupy Sales and White Fang:French President Emmanuel Macron responds after he apparently got assaulted in the face by his wife Brigitte while stepping off of a plane in Vietnam.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 26, 2025
Macron was seen getting shoved in the face before getting off the plane as if nothing happened.
Macron has since responded to… pic.twitter.com/YeEAwdLcxF
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The hazards of being a married man 5’5” tall.
THAT 2 handed face shove was NO joke‼️
I thought it was a slap. That’s worse than a slap.
That wizened monkey has got some kind of grip on that boy's 'nads. I wonder what she has on him.
He probably deserved it. What a passionate relationship!
Is she wearing a wig?
Hilarious save. She pushes his face.. and then he smiles for the camera.
LOL.
Soupy Sales reference. I love this blog
What is this White Fang beast? A civilized wampa?
He married a much older woman, and now he's married to a very old woman. He gets to be treated like an annoying brat by her because she sees that he is.
..." In 1993, at the age of 39, she met the 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron in La Providence High School, where she was a teacher and he was a student..." They were married in 2007.
And when you smile for the camera
I know I'll love you better
"Peg" - Steely Dan
Madame Macron needs a "pushing" herself. To the curb, I'd advise. There's nothing more dead than a henpecked French president.
It must be big. I think it's a love child.
Abused children are always told, "I'm just kidding," as a gaslight. They grow up unable to distinguish between humor and violence because the line has been blurred.
How in the Hell did the French elect this couple?
Oh. They're the French.
The fact that she did this in semi-public (on the plane in full view of staff) indicates she does this often in private.
Can you lead a country if you’re physically abused in private?
Quien es mas macho?
That’s nothing next to what Marine Le Pen is ready to do to him.
It's OK if women physically assault their partners. They asked for it.
Now back to equality.
So, what was it. Were they bickering or joking?
Macron says, “yes.”
They were married in 2007.
@Aggie, I think they wanted to wait until her age was less than twice his.
In her 70's, she's 25 years older than he is. If and when they have sex, does she insist that he call her Mommy?
Laslo Spatula would have something ripe to say about this.
- Krumhorn
We have no idea what the obvious spat was about.
But yeah - the face pushing makes me think she is the jerk. She is older... and is probably nutz.
Big Mike,
Marie Le Pen will lose each and every time. Not sure how much Lucy and the Football can be replayed for that to sink in.
Never missed an episode of Soupy Sales. Black Tooth and Pookie the Lion.
This makes me glad I'm not a celebrity.
Shouldn’t his security step in when something like this happens? He’s the Prez, she isn’t.
Black commentator Candace Owens has a whole series of videos alleging that Brigette is a man.
>My favorite part is his "Oh, hi" gesture<
My favorite part was that she was still pissed at him at the top of the stairs. He offers her his arm and she ignores it. Heh
(It's fun to get some cheap entertainment now and then, isn't it.)
He's lucky. It could have been a knee to the groin. Harder to laugh off, especially when bent over in pain.
The beauty is that Soupy Sales cracked me up as a kid and still does as an older guy. A great show. So many stories about it behind the scenes.
As for Macron...? Meh. He deserves a worse slap than that.
just to review:
According to Macron,
a) his teacher is 24 YEARS older than he is
b) they starting f*cking, while he was a minor, and in school
c) he married his teacher
ALSO, according to Macron; his wife is NOT a guy, she just Looks like a guy.
Exactly - imagine if HE did that to her.
"Joe Bar said...
How in the Hell did the French elect this couple?
Oh. They're the French."
Serious Question:
HOW LONG? How Long will the majority of French citizens put up with this?
Their religious teachings Clearly state, that people like that are to be thrown out of windows.
I mean, come ON! it's not like we're talking about a Christian country.. We're talking about France
I forgot about Soupy Sales' dog White Fang, who apparently went on to marry Phyllis Diller who, in turn, by all appearances, went on to marry Emmanuel Macron.
These celebrity marriages!
That was no slap, that was a fist...a not so dainty one!
That's no way to treat your wusband!
More of a push than a hit or slap. And two-handed.
He really shouldn’t let his mom get away with that.
“No Hitting” “Use Words” — kindergarten 101
And....what's the problem? Maybe his wife had reason to push him away. Or maybe she has "issues". And what does that have to do with the job he's doing as President of France. Maybe De Gaulle's wife pushed him in the face (assuming she could reach it) all the time. And we don't know about it.
Watching that S. Sales clip. How did this guy stay on TV? Answer: You had 3 networks and PBS.
Macron got elected because the Left decided they'd rather give unlimited power to neo-con globalist and big business supporter than give it to *gasp* Le Pen. Even though Le Pen agrees with them on economics. I laugh everytime I think of those dumbshit Lefty workers in France working 2 extra years for their retirement, and getting it up the ass with taxes and global competition.
Probably snapped her bra strap.
Did anyone else see Benny Hill in that face that he pulled?
Cue the Yackety Sax
John Henry
Another cautionary example for those still doubting the high levels of domestic violence in lesbian relationships.
Kate said...
Abused children are always told, "I'm just kidding," as a gaslight. They grow up unable to distinguish between humor and violence because the line has been blurred.
A/K/A "The Huxtable Defense" Bill Cosby's character abused the bejabbers out of his son Theo. But the abuse was always framed as a joke and the audience always laughed. Even today (Probably in this very comments section) people deny his abusiveness.
I was a huge Cosby fan since his days on I Spy. I even enjoyed the Huxtables for a while, laughing with everyone else until I realized what he was doing and how viciously he was doing it.
He should have been disappeared for his work on that show.
John Henry
What is the correct grammar here "He pushed Macron in the face" or "She pushed Macron in the face"
Do we need to go along with pretending he is a woman and using his preferred pronouns?
JOhn Henry
mais non
She has a Ric Ocasek quality that is entirely unflattering…
As always, Life imitated Seinfeld. Here is a 7+ minute super cut of Elaine pushing Jerry, Kramer and George, usually with 2 hands, often hard enough for them to fall down, spectacularly in Kramer's case.
Imagine if Jerry had pushed Elaine that way? The show would have been cancelled that same night.
But women using violence against men, that hilarious! Andy Capp, Jiggs, Snuffy Smith, Mr Dithers would get beaten by their wives about once a week in the funny papers. TV sitcoms (including Seinfeld) often featured it as a comedic bit.
The reality is that female on male domestic violence happens at about the same level and with similar degrees of injury as male on female. But our society treats one as funny and the other as outrageious.
Female on female and male on male violence happens at abotu the same rate and level as M-F/F-M in gay and lesbian domestic relationships.
It is NEVER funny.
John Henry
Seinfeld link
https://youtu.be/Wy-N5tDV-tw?si=Mnqj8GoLM9gzdRw2
Oh rah oh rayah
rehajm said...
She has a Ric Ocasek quality that is entirely unflattering…
Legs like twigs, and the wigs
Don't scratch those chicken pox! Ah... the soup bone!
And his shuffle!
I'm sure you've seen the video
Not until now.
The doors unexpectedly open on Bob Barker:
https://youtu.be/XhHOX8pup_w?si=26WcuCj7up-1JX_a
RideSpaceMountain said...
Another cautionary example for those still doubting the high levels of domestic violence in lesbian relationships.
Actually, they are both "men."
There are some pictures that show "Bridgette" is pretty well endowed.
This is one of the creepiest relationships I have ever seen. I wonder how many little boys they have buried out back.
This relationship of the Macrons is fundamentally repellent. It reminds me of another French couple, Henri Gaudier and Sophie Brzeska, but worse. The Gaudier-Brzeska relationship started when Henri was 18, an adult or an adolescent depending on the individual, and Sophie was 36. Contrast that with the circumstances of Monsieur et Madame le Président. Brigitte Trogneux could have conceived her future husband at age 23, indisputably an adult, self-acutalized woman.
"She has a Ric Ocasek quality that is entirely unflattering"
Yes - She does look like Rik Ocasek ...with a sprinkle of Anna Wintour... and a dash of anorexia.
/mean - I know.
A true Seinfeld moment would be for Ric Ocasek/Anna Wintour to shove the Mr. out the door so hard he tumbled down the stairs ala- Kramer.
shouting "GET.. OUT!"
It's a "Get away from me" push applied at a place that's likely to work. A push to the chest would have no immediate effect.
He wanted, and probably tried, to link arms and she's having none of it.
Rule 3 of a successful marriage is show the guy that you're satisfied with him even after he screws something up.
I am somehow missing Ann's point that Brigette's shove was anything like hillbilly Soupy Sales' poor and definitely unfunny humor.
On the other hand, Le Monde reports:
Self-published on February 21 in France, the book Devenir Brigitte ("Becoming Brigitte"), by French author Xavier Poussard, who describes himself as an "investigative journalist," shot to the top of the book sales charts on Amazon. The book, which claims to demonstrate that Brigitte Macron is transgender, alongside allegations of pedophilia and incest within the presidential couple, is, according to its cover, "presented" by Candace Owens. The ultraconservative Owens promoted the transphobic theory in a podcast released in January on YouTube, where she has almost 4 million subscribers. In France, in September 2024, two women were ordered to pay damages for defamation for having broadly spread this fake news, taken up by several hundred thousand posts on X.
So I wonder why a shove is suddenly more important news than a fake attack on the first family of France?
gadfly confusingly said...
"Owens promoted the transphobic theory"
so tell us, oh Wise One? What made the theory "transphobic"?
take your time replying, because i can see you've given this NO thought.
But seriously..
According to YOU, the idea that trans people EXIST, is "transphobic"?
how much HAVE you thought this through.. Please let us Know.
WHAT, EXACTLY; is "transphobic" about Macron being married to a guy?
i'll wait
Does Macron actually speak English well enough to use the verb "bicker"?
"The reality is that female on male domestic violence happens at about the same level and with similar degrees of injury as male on female.
Yeah, right. And women rape men as often as men rape women. "Get it up, Big Boy! Don't make me hurt you again!"
Slumming again, gadfly?
Well, at least he never grabbed her by her pussy. At least not on camera.
Never missed an episode of SS. Still cracks me up. I think the story about balls and strikes might have done him in or telling the kiddies to go in Mommies pocket book take out a dollar and send to good old Soupy. He was still funny in a twisted sort of way. Kind of like the Gong Show.
"...So I wonder why a shove is suddenly more important news than a fake attack on the first family of France? "
Wait a second, a self-published book claiming to be an exposé? That a woman with a detailed history, a previous marriage, and children that resemble her, is actually a transgender? You wonder why such a clearly bogus story has been downrated when the President is shown on camera being given a two-handed face shove by his mother-in-wife, at the beginning of a diplomatic visit to a foreign country?
Can you tell us why you wonder? And, out of curiosity, do you handle your own investments?
Out, damned spot !
He's 47 she is 72.
“We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife,” suggesting that too much had been made of it ...
"It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.”
Said Macron.
Welcome to our world, dude. Trump's blue funeral suit, complying with dress code, caused the left to lose what was left of their diseased minds.
So did the MS 13 over-lay - but that one was more leftist lies.
Desperate D-bags.
I didn't know Soupy Sales had a show. To me he was just some guy who showed up on Carson once in a while.
Something that has absolutely nothing to do with Trump and lonejustice makes it about Trump.
She looks like Jane Fonda in a lot of photos. I don’t know if that’s because she really looks like Jane Fonda or if all expertly surgically enhanced older women begin to look alike.
As they’re walking down the steps Brigitte’s shoulders are broader than his so those are some amazing shoulder pads she’s wearing because those are not her natural shoulders. Prior to 2024, Brigitte has the very same smile in all the photographs. Almost spooky. How incredibly tiring that must have been. She quit all that all the time smiling somewhere around 2024. (As a contrast, Melania exhibits more varied facial expressions.) I think she also may have lost weight in the past couple of years. The publicity about her marriage must be extremely difficult. I feel sorry/not sorry for her. The public scrutiny of her marriage is awful. And she really did take advantage of a young boy and possibly has physically as well as mentally abused him.
BTW how many people making mommy jokes are also making daddy jokes about Dick Van Dike and his wife. Although granted, they didn’t meet when she was a girl.
Macron contended that it wasn’t his wife who slapped him, it was Will Smith.
I read long ago in a reputable source that Darkisland and Jupiter are both wrong, or (if you like) each is half-right. Women are just as likely as men to initiate violence against partners, but men, being on the average stronger, do a lot more damage. (That's not quite the same thing as female-on-male vs male-on-female violence, but close enough.)
I've also read that the idea that Mrs Macron is a man is easily refuted: her children from her first marriage, including the daughter her husband thought Macron was dating, look so much like her that they are obviously hers. And Candace Owens is an idiot.
LoneJustice - we missed the on camera pussy grabbing you say occurred by Trump.
Dr Weevil said...
but men, being on the average stronger, do a lot more damage.
If the woman is just using fists and feet, that it true. But women are more likely to use an object to hit a man and thus do comparable harm.
From the funny papers I mentioned earlier, Andy Capp's wife used a monster pocketbook, Snuffy Smith's wife would hit him with a skillet, Maggie belabored Jiggs with a rolling pin and Mrs Dithers whaled on Mr Dithers with an umbrella.
But when women do it, it is funny.
John Henry
There is the opening scene of The Philadelphia Story.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qlyg8fOsfdo
One time my mother whacked my dad on the back of the head with a cast iron frying pan. It wasn't a damn bit funny.
Cry me a river.
The reason it’s funny when “Andy Capp's wife used a monster pocketbook, Snuffy Smith's wife would hit him with a skillet, Maggie belabored Jiggs with a rolling pin and Mrs Dithers whaled on Mr Dithers with an umbrella” is the same reason that it’s funny that Road Runner beats Wile E. Coyote, Tweety Bird beats Sylvester and Jerry beats Tom is because in reality it rarely if ever happens.
“2003–2007 U.S. Data: Male-on-female spousal homicide rates ranged from 0.95 to 8.76 per 100,000 couples, while female-on-male rates were much lower, 0.13 to 2.29 per 100,000. This indicates men kill wives at a rate 4–7 times higher, depending on racial composition of the couple.
• Context of Female Perpetrators: When women kill husbands, it’s often in self-defense against prolonged abuse. Over 90% of incarcerated women convicted of murder killed male batterers, compared to men, where self-defense is rarely a factor.”(Grok)
Now that doesn’t excuse female violence toward men but let’s not pretend that male on female violence is at all similar to female on male violence.
Sorry tcrosse, that was bad timing with my comment. So sorry you experienced that as a kid.
This is the sad epilog to Van Halen's song Hot for Teacher.
"Top O' the World, Ma !"
Who said it better: Cagney or Macron?
“Andy Capp's wife used a monster pocketbook, Snuffy Smith's wife would hit him with a skillet, Maggie belabored Jiggs with a rolling pin and Mrs Dithers whaled on Mr Dithers with an umbrella”
Yeah, that used to be a comic trope in old movies and TV shows. Or the woman knowing judo or karate and being able to beat up the man. Or just throwing random objects at him.
Now in movies its turned into full throated serious idioticy with the 120 lbs leading actress beating up 180 lbs bad guys with a kicks or a punch. Occassionaly, I see some Youtube video about some chick joining in a bar fight and getting her clock cleaned. I wonder if these "You go girl" videos are giving girls the wrong view of reality.
I have read that the reason Mae Clarke does such a good job of acting astonished in that scene with Cagney is that she had deliberately not been told that by the director that he was going to push the grapefruit in her face. That was carried to an extreme by Marlon Brando and director Bertolucci when they sprang the rape screen including the use of a lubricant (butter) on Maria Schneider while filming “Last Tango in Paris.”
He was apparently pissed off. A later shot shows his left hand in a tightly-closed fist.
“Say man,
Don't walk ahead of that woman like she don't belong to you
Just cause hers got them little skinny legs
You know, that ain't no way to do
You didn't act like that when you had it home behind closed doors
Alright
Now you act like you're 'shamed or somethin'
Or you don't want nobody to know she's your's
That's alright, you just walk on baby
And don't you worry about a doggone thing a'tall, huh huh
Because there's some man, somewhere, who'll take you baby, skinny legs and all
Keep on walking baby, huh huh
Show you what I'm talking about
Listen to this
Now, who'll take the woman with the skinny legs?
C'mon somebody please take the lady with the skinny legs
Now, you all know the lady with the skinny legs got to have somebody too, now
Will somebody please take the lady with the skinny legs, please?
Hey, Joe
Yeah Bobby?
Why don't you take her?
You a fool?
I don't want no woman with no skinny legs
Look here, I thought I might give this woman to Clyde
But, no, I know the kinda woman Clyde likes
So Leroy'll take her
Say Leroy?
You got her
Say, Miss? Right here?
Now why you want to act like that man ain't yours?
Just 'cause he's walkin' with you, with them raggedy clothes
Man just forgot to get his suit out a the cleaners, that's all
Alright, alright
Act like that man don't belong to ya
Go on over there and kiss him and hold his hand
Go on, say you ain't gonna do what?
That's alright
You just walk on mister
And don't you worry about a doggone thing, a'tall, huh, huh
Because there's some woman somewhere who'll take you
Mr. Raggedy clothes and all
Yes there is
Just keep on looking”
—— Joe Tex “Skinny Legs and All”
Maybe it's the "reverse psychology" effect or whatever it's properly called but Madame Macron's diss makes the little twerp more human and so to me more sympathetic. Rich and powerful men argue with their wives too just like the rest of us.
She's still mad at him for staying out all night with Kweer Starmer snorting coke.
I got to Dave Beg's comment in this thread before I saw someone jabber about the thing re 'she is a he!'
It's interesting that re this she/he subject the blog/knowledge bubble nurtured by Althouse here was so retarded re knowing that the 'she is a he' thing is a thing. This blog is so far behind Candice.
Usually these threads are fully prepped to echo the echo chamber re the newest right wing conspiracy jabber. But somehow a lot of folks here seem to have missed the whole thing re 'she is a he.'
BTW, it is funny that some folks commenting here didn't fuss about the 'she is a he' thing, but they did focus on the age difference between she and he (or he and he, if she is a he). Seems like you folks may want to leavitt alone re stating that age differences re marriage are something to fuss about. BTW, is it just me or do all of us agree that Jordan Hudson could EZPZ replace and maybe exceed Karoline?
My only viewing experience with Milton Soupan, er, Soupy Sales, is his regular panel appearances on the syndicated version of What's My Line in the early 70s.
Insufferable is a good word to describe Mr. Sales. Totally and inappropriately unfunny, desperately camera-hoggish, clearly miffed by any perceived slight during the show, I come away from those shows wondering how this SOB ever had a career in entertainment.
"But somehow a lot of folks here seem to have missed...."
If you're really interested in what other people are missing, you should tend to the matter of what YOU are missing. In this case, you are embarrassing yourself by failing to take that precaution.
If you don't understand the subtlety of why someone isn't talking about something that's being talked about elsewhere, you need improvement.
Wasn't he caught on film just last week with coke still on the table?
Yes, he was caught. And I’ll go out on a limb to say, we don’t need another cheesy prick around heyah.
le DeeDee
I knew a Vietnam War vet - he passed away nearly three years ago - who owned a couple of his favorite cars (Fiat X1/9) who named the white one White Fang and a black one Black Tooth.
A good man… always ready to share his automotive knowledge and a good joke. And a dedicated Soupy Sales fan.
Theory about Mrs Macron is that she's the younger brother of the teacher; family history certainly is murky, because same brother disappears from family later on. Only one "daughter" speaks to press. By current appearance, Mrs Macron looks far more like a skinny old man than a skinny old lady. Her hip-width displayed in photo of her recent airplane exit seems improbable to have birthed three children. Her wig was askew and she didn't know what to do...
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