Offen wie selten erzählt Brigitte Macron in einem Interview von den Abgründen, die sich in ihrer Zeit als Première Dame auftaten. Die Ehefrau des französischen Präsidenten ist in einen Strudel aus Fake News geraten, der bis heute nicht endet. Wie erträgt man so etwas?

Footage shows US president saying UK ‘should be our best’ ally and accusing PM of prevarication over sending ships

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Footage has emerged of Donald Trump mocking Keir Starmer by claiming the prime minister said he would have to consult his team before deciding whether to send UK aircraft carriers to the Middle East.

In a new low for UK-US relations, Trump appeared to impersonate Starmer during an Easter lunch speech at the White House.

Anger in France after US president puts on French accent and mocks Macron during private lunch in Washington

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Emmanuel Macron has said Donald Trump’s comments about his marriage were “neither elegant nor up to standard” after the US president put on an accent and mocked his French counterpart and his wife during a private lunch in Washington.

Arriving in South Korea on Thursday, Macron made clear his displeasure at Trump’s comments, which appeared briefly in a video on the White House YouTube channel before being removed.

Teacher and publicist among those convicted of maliciously posting or sharing false claims French first lady is a man

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A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of online harassment of the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, by posting or reposting malicious comments on social media that claimed falsely that she was a man.

Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, including a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist, were on Monday given sentences ranging from a compulsory course in understanding online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison sentence. One man, a property developer, who was absent from the trial hearings, was given a six-month prison sentence.

Die Ehefrau des französischen Präsidenten setzt sich erfolgreich gegen Verschwörungserzählungen im Netz zur Wehr. Ein Gericht in Paris spricht acht Männer und zwei Frauen schuldig.

More than 300 women file complaint after video shows French first lady calling feminist protesters ‘sales connes’

Brigitte Macron is facing a legal complaint from several organisations, including women’s rights groups, after she was filmed saying feminist protesters at a theatre show in Paris were “stupid bitches”.

More than 300 women – specifically 343, a historically symbolic number in French feminism – this week filed the complaint against the French first lady for public insult.

Die Frau des französischen Staatspräsidenten sagt, es tue ihr leid, falls sie mit ihrer Beschimpfung von Feministinnen als „dumme Kühe“ auch andere Frauen verletzt haben sollte. Das heißt aber nicht, dass sie ihre Aussagen bereut.

Brigitte Macron hat sich sehr abfällig über eine Gruppe von Frauenrechtlerinnen geäußert. Die Empörung ist groß. Für das Image des französischen Präsidentenpaares ist die Debatte verheerend.

French first lady was filmed calling women who had disrupted Paris theatre show by Ary Abittan ‘sales connes’

French celebrities and politicians on the left have expressed outrage after Brigitte Macron was filmed using a derogatory and sexist slur to describe feminist protesters at a theatre show in Paris.

A video filmed on Sunday showed France’s first lady in discussion backstage at the Folies Bergère theatre in Paris with Ary Abittan, a French actor and comedian previously accused of rape, before a performance he was about to give. The previous night, feminist campaigners had disrupted his show with shouts of: “Abittan, rapist!”