World leaders ignore bumbling Joe Biden, 81, as he misses G20 photo… and is found walking in palm trees [Video]

15:36 EST 18 Nov 2024, updated 20:08 EST 18 Nov 2024

President Joe Biden was stunningly left out of a group photo of the world leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro Monday after he arrived late – and they chose not to wait.

In a signal of how the world no longer bends to the leader of its most powerful nation, the photo went off without him, while other leaders including China‘s Xi Jinping and India‘s Narendra Modi gripped and grinned.

The event was played live on local Brazilian television as the culmination of work on a new Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty being championed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

It also got captured on C-Span, as journalists who were there to memorialize the photo-op were amazed that it went on without Biden, 81. 

The leaders were arrayed before a picturesque backdrop featuring Rio’s internationally famous coastline, with its iconic Sugarloaf …