President Joe Biden was noticeably absent when leaders at the G20 Summit in Brazil gathered for a group photo.

As world leaders gathered for a photo-op against the backdrop of Rio De Janeiro’s iconic Sugarloaf Mountain during the G20 Summit, President Joe Biden was missing. The 81-year-old outgoing leader was instead standing in a huddle with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni,

U.S. President Joe Biden headed for a group photo with G20 leaders on Monday, only to find out they had taken the photograph without him. The Guardian reported that U.S. officials blamed "logistical issues" for the blunder.

President Joe Biden inadvertently was a missing man in the traditional photo of world leaders at the final Group of 20 summit of his presidency Monday, a photo-shoot fail that U.S. officials attributed to timing.

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!