THE BROTHERS GRIM: President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin sit glowering during a meeting yesterday at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland. (
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It’s the face children have when they’re ordered to eat their peas.
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin struck two sourpuss poses during a meeting yesterday at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland, clearly not jazzed to be in each other’s company for the first time in more than a year.
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev looked happier during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Of course, Obama may have lightened up if Putin would have returned a certain piece of American bling.
As The Post reported this week, the Russian strongman stole a Super Bowl ring belonging to the New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
But Putin’s spokesman insisted Kraft gave the ring as a gift during a 2005 meeting.
As for Putin, he’d just like some privacy from the spy-happy NSA.
Yesterday’s frosty gathering came after the revelation that the American government had wiretapped a former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, in 2009.
That could explain why the heads of state looked like two siblings in the back seat of a car on a long, long road trip.
Also, just days ago, Obama ticked off Moscow by authorizing military help for the rebels fighting Syrian President — and Putin ally — Bashar al-Assad.
“Of course, our opinions do not coincide,” Putin deadpanned yesterday through an interpreter.
Obama just stated the obvious, saying they “have differing perspectives on the problem.”
And with those remarks, the world leaders went back to resembling two pouting students sitting with their hands folded in detention, just waiting for their parents to pick them up.