Watch: French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be shoved in face by wife

French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to be shoved in the face by his wife, Brigitte Macron.

The Associated Press caught the interaction on video as the Macrons arrived in Vietnam on Monday.

Emmanuel Macron can be seen preparing to exit his plane when his wife uses both hands to shove him in the mouth.

The president quickly recovers and waves to the cameras. As the couple exits the aircraft, Brigitte Macron declines to take her husband's arm.

The president later insisted that his wife had been joking.

"We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife," he said, according to CBS News. "It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe."

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An associate of the president described the incident as a "squabble."

"It was a moment when the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by joking around," one source claimed.

"It's a moment of togetherness. No more was needed to feed the mills of the conspiracy theorists," the person added, noting that pro-Russian voices had made negative comments about the interaction.

Watch the video below from ABC.