Macron’s hairy-chested pose is the latest power play

London: All world leaders have a fallback option for when they’re desperately in want of votes. Joe Biden puts on aviator sunglasses and makes sure he’s seen at an ice cream parlour. Donald Trump reaches for his red hat, arranges for 5,000 acolytes to meet him at the nearest airport runway. Boris Johnson drives a digger through a wall, or something, then hopes people misread that metaphor and see it as charming.



Emmanuel Macron, bless him, is no different. Leading Marine Le Pen by just five percentage points in the French presidential election, he needed to turn heads this Easter weekend, and rapidement. “Mes amis, what can I do to really get the people going?” he must have asked his staff on Saturday.

A month ago, Macron spent an afternoon wearing a hoodie, a furrowed expression and three-day stubble for a photoshoot that made it look as if he was playing Volodymyr Zelensky. It went down poorly, but not poorly enough to put Team Macron off overtly masculine, uncomfortably informal portraits involving excesses of body hair and that familiar political scent, Eau D’esperation.

Because he’s at it again, and this time he’s saying it with his chest. In a new photo set from Soazig de La Moissonnière, a frequent Élysée snapper, Macron can be seen reclining, presumably post-rally (post-something, anyway), on a mustard leather sofa, with several mobile phones at his side and at least four more shirt buttons undone than is ever acceptable, unless actively undressing.

And poking – no, powering – through the chemise is his rarely seen running mate: a bristling carpet of thick brown hair. The war chest. A Tom Selleck throwback special. And boy, did it get the people going. Some politicians call for a spin doctor, Macron called for the rug doctor. Diagnosis? A heavy dose of “he-vage”.


Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ vaccine photo in January last year also drew attention.

Full: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/ ... 5aeb4.html

Top photo no, bottom photo yes.

Sorry to anyone who suffers from the affliction of the shaved t-shirt crew neck and up

Edit to add the Greek looks a wee bit gorgeous
Edited again to retract last comment now I have seen him unmasked

LOL
He should be riding a bear.
Short men are a worry.


Pretty hard to outdo the former pres 45 in the absurdity stakes.
His minions are even better.






America does it best!

Someone is on it, so, maybe ?


That's a weird neat demarcation between his neck and his "hairs", look like a square patch of hairy cardboard has been slipped under his shirt, doesn't look very natural to me

It is said that ex Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull thought Macron looked a bit like Napoleon.. That was around the time they signed up for the subs deal which was later sunk in favour of the superior AUKUS one

Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:30 pm Someone is on it, so, maybe ?

Here's the real deal from the 70s..



or this one..

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:37 pm
Here's the real deal from the 70s..

Nah, here's the REAL deal

violet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 5:48 pm Sorry to anyone who suffers from the affliction of the shaved t-shirt crew neck and up

That does look weird doesn't it? If it wasn't real, one could think he's wearing a chest wig.

Reminds me of one of the execs at my employ in a previous life who didn't shave low enough and had the problem of 'fluff' protruding above his closed collar and tie. Very distracting that was when one wanted to talk to him