President Donald J. Trump (R) with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron.
‘No, no, no, we can’t send boats, Donald. Only after the war is won’”. The French president found Donald Trump’s surprising statements about his marriage “neither elegant nor up to par”.
With a French accent, during a private lunch in Washington, the US president mimed the conversation he had with his French counterpart about the US and Israel’s attack on Iran. In between, he threw several “mouths” at Macron’s already long-standing relationship with his wife, Brigitte Macron.
Trump said that Brigitte “treats the French president extremely badly”, who “is still recovering from the ‘right’ hit to the jaw”, joked the American leader.
Trump was referring to the episode recorded in May 2025, during an official visit to Vietnam, where Macron placed two hands on his face, in a mixture of slapping and pushing. And he also reported an alleged conversation with Macron in which asked for French support in the Gulfthrough the immediate dispatch of ships — a request that was not met.
Trump imitated the French president again, to represent the supposed refusal: “‘No, no, no, we can’t do that, Donald. We can do it after the war is won‘”.
🚨BREAKING: Trump mocks France’s Emmanuel Macron.
“I called up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly and he’s still recovering from the right to the jaw”.
Years ago, Macron’s wife reportedly slapped him during a tour.
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The footage, taken by an Associated Press cameraman, showed Emmanuel Macron standing outside the plane in Hanoi at the moment the woman’s hand appears to push his face, causing him to step back before recovering and waving. At the time, Macron dismissed any idea of marital conflict, saying the couple were just joking, “as they often do.”
For Macron, Trump’s statements were not “neither elegant nor worthy”, confessed, upon arriving in South Korea, this Thursday, according to . “I’m not going to answer them, they don’t deserve an answer,” he told reporters.
Trump’s remarks appeared briefly in a video posted on the White House’s YouTube channel that has since been removed. In France, political reactions were swift and forceful.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, centrist president of the National Assembly, considered that the statements “are not at the required level”.
“We are discussing the future of the world. In Iran, this has consequences for millions of people, there are people dying on the battlefield, and We have a president who laughs and makes fun of others,” Braun-Pivet told public radio Franceinfo.
Manuel Bompard, national coordinator of the radical left La France Insoumise and a regular critic of Macron, also considered “absolutely unacceptable” the way the North American leader spoke about him and his wife.
