President JoeBiden skips G-20 gala, White House says 'it's not COVID'
President Joe Biden skipped a pair of G-20 events on Tuesday in Indonesia, with the White House explaining it was"not COVID" and that the president had other things to attend to.
Biden was scheduled to attend the G-20 gala dinner at Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park in Bali, along with a cultural event, but he missed both and returned to his hotel earlier in the night.“It’s not COVID," an unnamed White House staffer told pool reporter Geoff Earle, of the Daily Mail."He just had spent a full day in meetings and needed to attend to a few things tonight .
"It's been a long day, and he has other matters he needed to attend to," a White House official said.At the gala dinner that Biden missed, many leaders wore traditional Indonesian batik shirts, according to Reuters, and host Widodo joked that he hoped the food was not too spicy for foreigners.
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