While Obama was in Germany, here he is chatting with a few people. The Iraqi PM leader Haider Al-Abadi walked up to the bench and sat next to Barack. It seems like PM Abadi was trying to grab Barack’s attention but Barack ignored him and kept talking to those two people.
As Barack and those two other people stood up from the bench, you can see toward the end of the video that PM Abadi is wondering why Barack hasn’t even acknowledged him. At the end of the video, you can tell that Abadi is like, “Why wouldn’t Barack say ‘hi’ to me?”.
I think Barack knew Abadi was sitting next to him, he just didn’t care.
Throughout that whole video, Abadi had this look on his face as if he was saying, “Why is Barack Obama ignoring me?”.
I know it’s rude to interrupt people talking and Obama just didn’t want to get interrupted but Obama should have at least say a quick, “hello” to Abadi but you know how much Barack hates other world leaders. What Barack did here was pretty disrespectful.
Kev