The outgoing U.S. president missed a photo with Group of 20 leaders on Monday in Brazil after summit organizers proceeded without him.  Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived at the waterside location just as their fellow world leaders were dispersing.

World leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Rio, chatting and posing for a photo with the stunning backdrop of Sugarloaf Mountain.

Frustrated US officials blamed "logistical issues" for the blunder, which meant that Joe Biden missed out on the shot, along with the Canadian and Italian Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Giorgia Meloni,

Instead, Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau strolled up after photographers had already taken the official picture, as other world leaders milled about chatting after having smiled and raised linked hands for the photo.

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!

Members of the G20 posed on Monday (November 18) for the official photograph of the Global Alliance to combat poverty and hunger with Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sugarloaf Mountain in the background.

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.