The time seemed long.
“Forty-two seconds of discomfort”, exactly.
Thursday, December 1, Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, were invited to American soil by Joe and Jill Biden ahead of a welcome ceremony at the White House.
A few hours before the official evening, the two presidents gave a brief speech to journalists, recalling the ties that unite France and the United States.
The American head of state then grabbed his French counterpart, in front of an audience of cameras.
The scene, broadcast on the news channels and relayed on social networks, quickly went viral as it aroused the "embarrassment" of some spectators.
In the images, Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron look at each other intensely for several seconds, their hands clenched against each other, chaining embarrassed smiles.
If the President of the Republic seems to want to free himself at times, the former senator from Delaware refuses to let go.
"I'm sure Macron was not comfortable," wrote a surfer on Twitter.
"Isn't that worrying?"
Because since then, the video has gone viral on the Internet and causes the hilarity of users.
“Joe Biden can't really tweet.
He still holds Macron's hand,” one of them quipped.
Jokes that have turned into real concerns for others, seeing in these images proof of Joe Biden's senility, relaunching the controversy over his state of health.
"I wonder what you think of Biden shaking hands with Macron and forgetting he's doing it?
Isn't that worrying?
You don't think the world makes fun of its weakness?", alarms a user.
In video, Jill Biden and her grandson welcome the White House Christmas tree
Other, more down-to-earth media, on the other hand, explained that Biden was only waiting for the end of the television translations to free Emmanuel Macron's hand.
Something to reassure fans of the White House.
