Photoshoot Fail: Biden, Trudeau missed traditional G20 leaders' group picture
PTC News Desk: As US President Joe Biden walks up to the stage to pose for a traditional photo of world leaders at the final Group of 20 summit of his presidency, he finds out that picture had already been taken without him. A photo-shoot fail that U.S. officials attributed to timing.
Not only Biden, but Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Italy PM Georgia Meloni also remained absent from the group picture. A picture Biden inadvertently missed was supposed to be the last picture of him as president of the United States.
"Due to logistical issues, they took the photo early before all the leaders had arrived. So a number of the leaders weren't actually there," a US official said
World leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron walked down a red carpeted ramp at Rio's stunning bayside museum of modern art to the group photo set-up.
The leaders strolled up to the stage, chatted, joked as they accommodated to pose for traditional leaders' group photo against the backdrop of the Brazilian city's iconic Sugarloaf Mountain.
- With inputs from agencies
