There are many things that belong firmly in the past, and I think we can all agree that The Crystals’ 1962 song “He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)” is one of them. So it’s a bit of a stretch that the president of France is asking the world to accept his line about the incident everyone is talking about: she shoved me in the face and it felt like “joking” around.
But that is what Emmanuel Macron would have us believe about the moment – caught on camera as he and wife Brigitte were about to leave their plane, having touched down in Vietnam – when his spouse raised both hands to his face and pushed him sharply away in full sight of cabin crew.
