Biden Joins Leaders, First Responders as Time-Wasting G20 Meeting Begins in Rome

  • President Biden made a low-key entrance at his first G20 summit, as the leaders of the world’s largest economies gathered Saturday in Rome.
  • The President, among the last to arrive for the traditional “family photo” of world leaders, took a place at the far edge of the blue-carpeted dais, next to Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi, the president of Congo, the summit’s African representative.
  • Biden offered a distant salute to Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Emmanuel Macron, and others — but only Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, moved in for a handshake.