French President Emmanuel Macron denied on Monday having a domestic dispute with his wife Brigitte, after a video appeared to show her shoving his face away when they touched down for a visit to Vietnam.

The Elysee had been hoping that the visit to Vietnam would showcase France's reach into the Indo-Pacific, but it has been shadowed by the incident which occurred as the doors of the presidential plane swung open after landing in Hanoi on Sunday.

"My wife and I were squabbling, we were rather joking, and I was taken by surprise," he said.

Now it's "become a kind of planetary catastrophe, and some are even coming up with theories," Macron told reporters.

He blamed disinformation campaigns for trying to put false meaning on the footage. (AFP)