French President Emmanuel Macron has mentioned that Donald Trump’s feedback about his marriage had been “neither elegant nor as much as commonplace”.
The US president was delivering a nationwide handle in Washington on the warfare in Iran, when he claimed that Brigitte Macron, Macron’s spouse, handled her husband “extraordinarily badly”.
“He is nonetheless recovering from the precise to the jaw,” Trump mentioned, referring to a 2025 video which appeared to indicate the second Macron was shoved within the face by his spouse.
On the time, France’s president mentioned they had been “simply joking about as we do”.
Through the handle on Wednesday, Trump additionally recalled asking Macron for France’s assist in the Gulf – having beforehand accused France of failing to assist in the warfare on Iran.
On strategic issues, the French President mentioned that the Trump administration was consistently giving out opposite indicators.
“There’s an excessive amount of discuss” he mentioned, “and it is giving off in each course. However all of us want stability, calm, and a return to peace.”