Emmanuel Macron Hits Back At Donald Trump Over Comments About His Wife
Emmanuel Macron has hit back at Donald Trump after he mocked the French president over an altercation he appeared to have with his wife.
The US president said Macron was “still recovering from the right to the jaw” after the incident last year.
Bridgette Macron was filmed apparently pushing her husband in the face shortly before they disembarked from his presidential plane.
In a speech in Washington on Wednesday, Trump referred to the incident as he criticised the French for not getting involved in the Iran war.
He said: “Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly. He’s still recovering the right to the jaw.”
Speaking during a state visit to South Korea, Macron said: “The remarks I have heard are neither elegant nor up to standard.
“So I am not going to respond to them. They do not merit a response.”
The French president said Trump’s previous suggestion that the international community use force to re-open the Strait of Hormuz was “unrealistic”.
He also condemned Trump’s criticism of Nato and hints that America could leave the military alliance.
Macron said: “I believe that organisations and alliances like Nato are defined by what is left unsaid – that is, the trust that underpins them, and that has often been the case, incidentally, with military and strategic matters.
“If you cast doubt on your commitment every day, you erode its very substance.”
He added: “We need to be serious, and if you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite of what you said the day before.
“I think there is too much talk.”
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