French President Emmanuel Macron was so determined to holdhis own umbrella at a rain-dampened event outside the Elysee Palace that heshooed away aides three times when they tried to take it from him.
Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic spoke to reporters beforea meeting with Macron when a female aide came out and handed the French leadera black umbrella. Macron took it and held it over his Slovakian guest.
In the video, a secondfemale aide is seen offering to hold the first umbrella for Macron. He gesturedto her that there was no need.
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When the two men finished speaking to the media and turnedto walk back up the steps into the Elysee Palace, a military aide approachedand offered to take Macron¡¯s umbrella. Macron ignored him and kept holding itover Matovic.
The second female aide then came back and again offered totake the umbrella, but Macron again brushed her off. He finally surrendered itwhen he got to the top of the steps on his way inside and needed both handsfree to put on his mask.
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