President Barack Obama’s relationship with Vladimir Putin has grown even frostier after Obama said the Russian president often looks “like the bored kid in the back of the classroom” at a recent news conference, The New York Times reported Thursday.
According to the report, Putin was already suspicious of Obama following the White House’s decision earlier this month to cancel a meeting originally scheduled for next week in Moscow.
Two days after Obama nixed the meeting, he told reporters at a news conference that he doesn’t have a “bad relationship with Putin” but suggested that the Russian leader’s body language can often give outsiders the wrong impression. The comment, a Russian official told the Times, upset Putin a great deal.
