“Cage aux Folles”, “cocottes”, “Mamadou”… The return of Emmanuel Macron’s little phrases is controversial

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Emmanuel Macron calmed down? Obviously, that's not his type. Between his controversial words in Mayotte and an investigation by Monde, which relaunches the idea of ​​a president who wants to “dominate” his interlocutors at the risk of “damaging” his image, the controversies of sound bites are back for the head of state.

My fault…

During his first five-year term, Emmanuel Macron, who readily claims to be “cash”, thus fueled with little sentences a trial of arrogance and class contempt.

To a young man who explains that he can't find a job, he says: “I'll cross the street, I'll find you some!” »

At another point, he describes train stations as places “where you meet successful people and people who are nothing”. And in a video posted by his entourage on social networks, he deplores the lack of effect of the “crazy money” that the State puts “in the social minimum”.

But since his re-election in 2022, Emmanuel Macron has been more careful. He outlined a few mea culpas.

“There are a lot of people who think I’m haughty,” he admitted in June.

But the return of little sentences

Traveling in the French archipelago in the Indian Ocean devastated by Cyclone Chido, the head of state lost his temper Thursday evening in the middle of a crowd who took him to task.

“You are happy to be in France. Because if it wasn't France you would be 10,000 times more in trouble! “, he shouted to make himself heard in the face of the cries “Macron resign”.

The President tried to explain: “I had people from the National Rally who were in front of me and who insulted France at the same time, who said that we are doing nothing, etc.,” he said. justified in an interview in Mayotte la 1ère, in the Mayotte newspaper and Kwezi TV.

But because it's France, when the president is insulted, he gets angry.

A controversial investigation

The comments in Mayotte also coincide with the publication of a long investigation in Le Monde. Investigation which overwhelms the small sentences that the head of state would have with his entourage.

Journalists report several formulas which have sparked a new wave of accusations of “racism” or “homophobia”. The Élysée “firmly denied these reported remarks”, which The World “maintains”.

“The problem with emergencies in this country is that it’s full of Mamadous,” according to the daily, the president would have said in 2023 to his then Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, who had joined the opposition. .

The newspaper also assures that the Élysée had baptized Matignon “La cage aux Folles” when the tenant was Gabriel Attal, the first openly homosexual head of the French government.

The daily assured in particular on Wednesday that homosexuals were described as “little queers” or “big tarlouzes” by the president and his advisers. And on Thursday that Emmanuel Macron would have described Marine Tondelier, head of the Ecologists, and Lucie Castets, proposed by the New Popular Front (left) for Matignon, as “comottes”.

In Brussels in October, the president became angry at a press conference over the reported comments attributed to him. “If it’s not in the press release” or an official “report,” “it doesn’t exist,” he scolded the journalists.

with AFP.

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