Not that you asked, but yes, I felt a little overwhelmed by all the bad news from Washington:
Pardons for fiscal cheaters who align President Trump's pockets. Talk about forgiveness For violent criminals who conspired to kidnap and kill the Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Cryptography magnate dinners who shower with money. Her monomaniacal quest To extinguish the light of the most prestigious university in the country. Its budget that goes deprive millions their health coverage, while Reduction taxes For the rich and inflating the national debt of 36 billions of dollars by about 3.8 billions of dollars.
And do not embark on the health of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It could make more difficult for pregnant women to get COVVI-19 plansThus depriving their virus protection infants when they are vulnerable and not yet eligible for vaccination.
My God, I needed a distraction. Fortunately, he arrived in the form of an unexpected video.
You may have seen it: last Sunday, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte, had languages ​​stirred when she did something that seemed entirely out of character for the painfully elegant first lady. She was Taken from the camera Crush your hands directly in his beautiful face. It looked like an act of hostility. I was intrigued.
I know, I know. These are hardly overwhelming news. But which is not going up a little when the gray of perfection that protects the private life of high -level and perfectly offset couples is torn, even for a brief moment?
Who can forget the sight of the first lady Melania Trump Screen her husband's hand During a visit in 2017 in Tel Aviv? Or the path His smile fell off During her first inauguration when he looked away from her, inspiring the hashtag #Freemelania?
For the whole drama and rumor that swirled around the wedding of the Clinton, I don't think of any public moment when they did not seem civilian, even after his disastrous relationship with a white house trainee.
What about the Obamas? Is there another intensely examined political couple who seem so normal? Not that anyone really knows what's going on in someone else's wedding.
Which brings us back to macrons.
His plane was on the Tarmac in Hanoi, where he launched a visit to strengthen links with countries in Southeast Asia. While the door of the plane opened, the couple was caught off guard. A scary macron has declined as The disembodied hands hit his face. He instantly collected himself and his wife appeared by his side. As they started to take the stairs to descend, he offered her her arm, which she did not take.
The bizarre clip has become viral and sent the French government, known as the Palais de l'Elysée, in this A title described as “chaos”.
Part of the chaos came from the government to claim first that the clip was not real, but was perhaps a deep false created by AI and exploited by Russia to make Macron weak. After the Associated Press authenticated the video, the French government has changed its air, describing the moment as a simple playful interaction between the couple.
Unsurprisingly, given their history, macrons have been the subject of intense fascination for years.
They met in 1993 in a Catholic high school in the north of France at the age of 15. She, almost 40 years old at the time, and a mother married to three children, was her theater teacher. His parents were so concerned about the irregularity of their relationship that they sent her back to Paris for her last year.
In 2006, she divorced her husband and married Macron the following year. He was 29 years old. She was 54 years old.
“Of course, we have breakfast together, me and my wrinkles, him with his youth, but that's how it was,” Macron told her France in 2017. “If I hadn't made this choice, I would have missed my life.”
Unfortunately, the Slapgate threatened to eclipse the journey of macrons.
“We feel and enjoy my wife,” he told journalists, complaining that the incident was exaggerated in “a sort of geo-planetary disaster”.
A few days later, however, he shed light on the incident. Or at least try to do it.
Tuesday in Jakarta, Indonesia, while her plane door opened up, another The disembodied hand appeared, This time, waving before Macron went up as part of the camera, smiling before going down the arm of the stairs in arms with his wife. Ha ha.
For a brief moment, the quarrel of one of the most interesting couples in the world gave us a much necessary rupture of the real Geo-planetary disaster that takes place around us. For this, macrons have my gratitude. THANKS, You, the crazy lovebirds.
