2023-08-12 19:30:48
A cup stamped “SNU”, a television screen, a presidential portrait… And this is the flood of reactions for Prisca Thévenot. The Secretary of State attracted many mocking remarks this Saturday after publishing a photo of her with a curious composition, and aimed at encouraging Les Bleues during the Women’s World Cup.
In the middle of a match between France and Australia for a place in the semi-finals, the Secretary of State for Youth and Universal National Service (SNU) posted on X (formerly Twitter) sitting on a bench, hand resting on a cup with the SNU logo, facing the television… and next to a portrait of President Emmanuel Macron.
An “unnatural” photo
Quickly, mocking comments poured in, criticizing a “product placement” in honor of the president and the SNU, the cohesion stay offered to second-year students. “Very spontaneous as a photo”, ironically a surfer. “The photo is not at all natural”, abounds another.
The photo has also been taken up in mocking montages: a parliamentary attaché of the deputy of Essonne Antoine Léaument notably changed the portrait of Emmanuel Macron into a campaign poster of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A surfer has inverted the presidential portrait with an image of the president on a jet-ski, an image captured during one of his stays at Fort Brégançon.
The French women’s team was eliminated from the World Cup after an interminable penalty shootout against Australia (0-0, 7 pens to 6), pushed by its public in Brisbane, and seeing the goal of the last four once again fly away. “I understand better why the Bleues lost, because of the influencer Prisca Thévenot + the frame of the poissard”, castigated another Internet user, still on X.
A defeat which also earned a reaction from President Emmanuel Macron, who first congratulated Les Bleues for their “beautiful journey”… Before encouraging Australia for their semi-final, tackling, in a friendly way, their opponent, namely “our English friends”.
Nothing personal against our English friends, but a bet is a bet… Good luck Australia for the semi-finals!
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 12, 2023
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