French President Emmanuel Macron made a rare move by sharing intimate photographs of himself boxing, which the French media interpreted as a display of extreme masculinity.
The official presidential photographer, Soazig de la Moissonniere, posted two black and white pictures on the social media platform Instagram, capturing Macron striking a punching bag in a gym.
The images depicted Macron’s well-defined biceps as he forcefully punched the bag.
The French media reacted strongly to these “macho” images of Macron. The regional French newspaper Nice-Matin described the pictures as conveying a message of “ultimate virility”. Similarly, CNews remarked that the French president appeared “prepared for battle, his eyes fixed on the punching bag as if determined to defeat his adversaries”.
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