Macron can thank Trump for getting his approval ratings up. He capitalized on the "anti-Trump" populist wave by making some grandiose statements about equality (that he was never going to back up, as a neo-liberal globalist con-man whose only true objective is to serve as a lobbyist for corporate causes).
Now he is being exposed for what he is. Apparently, he is too obnoxious to even give comments to the media. Trump might be a bumbling fool but he has never been afraid to make his opinions known. Macron acts like more of an upper class aristocrat.
Macron follows the true and tested tradition to modern liberal politics by pandering to the "progressive" socialist block with identity politics, without actually ever giving them anything, outside of the occasional empty platitude. I do not fault him for that, but it is dishonest. You could say that the same goes for most "neo-cons", which in reality are inter-changeable with neo-liberals outside of a few minor disagreements over policy.