By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 21:32:14 | Updated at 2024-11-18 23:45:34
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Biden misses G20 group photo in latest embarrassment: ‘He’s behind the palm tree!’
NY Post ^ | 11/18/2024 | Steven Nelson
Posted on 11/18/2024 1:27:19 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
RIO DE JANEIRO — President Biden missed a group photo of world leaders at the G20 summit on Monday — as a perplexed pool reporter could be heard telling colleagues that the commander in chief was “behind the palm tree!”
Biden, 81, skipped the family picture after buzz ahead of time that he would do so to avoid being seen smiling alongside Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov during the ongoing Ukraine war.
The White House blamed “logistical issues” afterward and said it was simply a matter of bad timing that Biden missed the photo.
“Oh my God… they took it!” an American journalist was heard uttering on the pooled video feed after other leaders clasped hands and smiled without the retiring commander in chief.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; embarrassment; g20; group; palmtree; photo
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Where is Dr Jill??
To: ChicagoConservative27
2 posted on 11/18/2024 1:28:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
She’s not even trying anymore. She’s a gold digger that knows it’s time to find a new meal ticket.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Thankfully not in the room with him.
4 posted on 11/18/2024 1:29:00 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Him, he was taking a leak
Her, groping a SS agent
5 posted on 11/18/2024 1:29:51 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Maybe Biden thought the Palm Tree he was standing behind was really Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and he was just exchanging pleasantries with him.
Mistaking a real person with a palm tree could happen to anyone.
6 posted on 11/18/2024 1:31:19 PM PST by srmanuel ( the)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Taking a page from obama, leading from behind.
7 posted on 11/18/2024 1:31:28 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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