Bizarre moment Emmanuel Macron is SLAPPED by his wife Brigitte while ‘bickering’ as they got off plane in Vietnam

THIS is the jaw-dropping moment French President Emmanuel Macron is slapped by his wife Brigitte as the pair “bickered”.

Unbelievable footage shows the presidential plane door open to Brigitte’s hands on Macron’s face as they arrived in Vietnam for the start of a tour of Southeast Asia.

The moment Brigitte’s hands are raised to her husband

French President Macron appeared to get slapped by his wife

Macron looked shocked he realised the door was open

Footage captured on Sunday evening at Hanoi airport show the plane’s doors opened to reveal Macron stood inside the aircraft, facing his wife with a stern look.

Within seconds, Brigitte’s arms pop into view, with both of them raised to Macron’s face in what appears to be a small blow.

Appearing shocked, the French leader immediately notices the doors open and quickly turns to wave at the sea of cameras at the bottom of the plane steps.

The couple then emerge from the aircraft and walk down the staircase, with Macron extending his arm to his wife.

But she takes hold of the handrail of the walkway for support instead, potentially due to an explosive argument they had inside.

The clip of the fighting couple went viral overnight, with it initially denied by Palais de l’Élysée as being fake.

But sources in the French media later confirmed that the clip is in fact real.

According to an anonymous source close to the President, the couple were “bickering”.

They told BFMTV: “It was a moment when the president and his wife were unwinding one last time before the start of the trip by having a little fun.”

The same source added that “it was a moment of complicity” that “wasn’t enough to give the conspiracy theorists more to chew” – alluding to the negative media spread by Russia.

Macron was in Hanoi to begin a week-long tour of Southeast Asia, where he will also visit Indonesia and Singapore.