Emmanuel Macron reacted Thursday evening in a humorous tone to the humorous “memes” which flourished on the web after his meeting in Brazil with his Brazilian counterpart Lula, having fun at the complicity displayed between the two men.
“Some have compared the images of my visit to Brazil to those of a wedding, I tell them: it was one! France loves Brazil and Brazil loves France!”
, wrote the French president on the social network X Thursday evening.
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He accompanied the publication in two languages of a screenshot of a photomontage replacing Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling on the poster of the romantic film “
Lalaland
” with the two heads of state walking hand in hand in the forest Amazonian. The Brazilian president responded to the post with an emoji representing the two flags and little hearts. On a three-day official visit to Brazil, Emmanuel Macron went to Belém (north) on Tuesday, where he met Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the middle of the Amazon forest. The two men had showcased their closeness with lots of smiles and warm gestures.
Together
Several of these images, most of them published on Lula's official accounts on social networks, were widely distributed on the internet, with montages or humorous comments. On one of them, for example, we can see the two presidents walking hand in hand, all smiles. On an Internet user montage, the image is diverted into a poster for the romantic drama
“Call me by your name”
.
“They are going to get married in the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris
,” joked a user on X, while many others thought that these photos could make a
“wedding album”
. Emmanuel Macron's first official visit to Brazil continued in São Paulo then in Brasilia. The closeness displayed by the two leaders contrasts with the frosty relations between Emmanuel Macron and the former nationalist president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).
In the midst of the crisis over the fires in the Amazon, in 2019, Jair Bolsonaro and his ministers made insulting remarks towards the French president and his wife Brigitte Macron.