French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly made a call to U.S. President Donald Trump when he and his team got held up on the streets of New York City on Monday night.

Macron and other world leaders are in New York for the 80th United Nations General Assembly this week. The French president was heading to an event with his delegation on Sept. 22 when they came upon a police barricade that prevented them from reaching their destination.

“I’m sorry, Mister President, I’m really sorry,” an officer told Macron in a now-viral video shared by French outlet Brut. “It’s just that everything’s been frozen right now. There’s a motorcade coming.”

The foreign leader — who had just declared in a speech at the U.N. that France was recognizing Palestinian statehood — jokingly attempted to “negotiate” with the officer, saying, “If you don’t see it, let me cross.”

When the officers still refused to let Macron and his group of 10 cross the street, he called Trump — a surprising turn of events that a French official confirmed to The Associated Press.

“Guess what? I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you,” Macron teased on the phone.

The pair then remained on the phone for a few minutes, discussing plans for the upcoming days of international talks, according to AP. The video captured Macron walking and talking on the phone, then eventually posing with some excited passersby — one of whom kissed him on the head.

PEOPLE reached out to the White House and Élysée Palace for comment on the phone call.

The phone call isn’t the first surprising on-camera moment Trump and the French president have shared in recent months.

During an Aug. 18 summit with other European leaders at the White House, the U.S. president was caught on a hot mic while whispering to Macron. He told the French president that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin would agree to end the war in Ukraine in order to make the U.S. look good on the international stage.

“I think he [Putin] wants to make a deal. I think he wants to make a deal for me, you understand that?” Trump said, as reported by Fox News. “As crazy as it sounds.”

Perhaps even more buzzy than Trump’s motorcade blocking Macron at the U.N. this week, however, were his comments once he got inside. During his remarks on Tuesday, the U.S. president took his fellow world leaders to task on the topic of immigration, saying it was “time to end the failed experiment of open borders.”

“I’m really good at this stuff,” he declared. “Your countries are going to hell.”

The president pressed European leaders in particular, saying they were only allowing immigrants into their countries “to be nice.”

“You want to be politically correct, and you’re destroying your heritage,” he said. “If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail.”

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