Move over Will Smith, who had the audacity to slap Chris Rock at the Oscars, post which the clip became the most famous slap in YouTube history. That record might be broken by a similarly viral video that suggests French President Emmanuel Macron was smacked by the First Lady, Brigitte Macron. The President scoffed at the latest “disinformation” being put out by “crazy people” that he was pushed in the face by his wife while they were about to disembark in Hanoi, Vietnam. The footage certainly shows him looking stunned but he recovered quickly to wave to the crowd. This incident or their “bickering and joking around”, as Macron called it, spawned think pieces across the international press, with men’s rights groups piping in that males can be victims of domestic violence, too.

Is it, indeed, as Macron says, an ordinary moment in the lives of spouses, blown out of proportion and spectacularly distorted into something vile by the........

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