Overview

• Video published by Brut shows Macron stopped at a Manhattan intersection shortly after leaving the United Nations on Monday evening.
• A local police officer told him the area was closed, prompting Macron to phone Trump and joke that he was stuck in the street because of him.
• The French president continued walking while on the call, according to the footage shared on social networks and reported by TF1 Info and Le Parisien.
• He later posed for photos with bystanders, at one point reassuring his security detail after a passerby kissed him on the head.
• TF1 reports that Trump was due to address the UN the next day, with his entourage saying he would target what they called globalist organizations.