Conspicuously absent: Trump. He offered no formal remarks at the program's end and took no questions from the media.

The White House did not respond to an email asking for comment on Trump's absence.

Since 2008, 11 other G-20 summits have been held, and those who were president at those times had spoken to reporters at the close of each, according to our review of White House archives.

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In St. Petersburg, President Barack Obama discussed a way forward on Syria. In Antalya, Turkey, he spoke about the terrorist attacks in Paris and international efforts to curb extremism. At his last G-20 summit, Obama made a case for the U.S. bank bailouts, saying “we came to Seoul to continue the work that has taken us from London to Pittsburgh to Toronto. We worked together to pull the global economy back from catastrophe. To avoid the old cycles of boom and bust that led to that crisis, we committed ourselves to growth that is balanced and sustained, including financial reform and fiscal responsibility. The actions we took were not always easy or popular. But they were necessary.”

President George W. Bush also spoke at the end of the inaugural G-20 meeting in Washington. In his comments, he defended the government bailout of foundering banks.

Not every leader attending the G-20 summit addresses the media, but many do. As Heribert Dieter, a senior fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, explained, leaders often use this time to defend key decisions and offer up their narrative of what happened. “Leaders seem to have a strong interest to tell their story,” he wrote in an email. “Of course, they are doing that for domestic consumption,” he added, not for an international audience.

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Dieter suggested that Trump's decision not to hold a presser fits in with a broader theme of the G-20: Trump's intentional, defiant isolation from the rest of the world. “Trump seems to think that his voters are not interested in international conferences anyway,” Dieter writes. Indeed, at the normally staid G-20, Trump clashed with world leaders on issues such as climate change and trade.