French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday played down the incident where his wife, Brigitte, pushed his face when the couple arrived in Vietnam to start a Southeast Asian visit.
In the video, Brigitte Macron seemed to push or make her husband's face before he got off the presidential plane on Sunday night.
Macron had been hiding behind the fuselage for a while, blocking his body language.
The couple, who have been married since 2007, then descended the stairs together, with Brigitte rejecting her husband's helping hand.
"I fought, or rather joking, with my wife," Macron told reporters in Hanoi. "It's okay," Macron said.
He warned this isn't the first time in recent weeks that his video content has been turned around by people he calls "crazy people".
Macron quoted a video shared on social media showing himself removing a tangled white object from the table on the train during a visit to Ukraine.
Some social media users suspect - without providing evidence - the object is a pocket of cocaine.
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Macron said the object was a tissue and his office accused French enemies of spreading fake news.
Earlier on Monday, an Elysee Palace official said of the latest video: "It was a moment when the president and his wife relaxed for the last time before starting the journey with a laugh."
"It was a moment of closeness," the official said.
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