Mon Jan 12, 2015 AT 7:53 AM EST
More than 40 heads of state locked arms and marched through the streets of Paris on Sunday. President Obama was not one of them, Newsmax reports. Nor did he send any high-level representative of the United States government. CNN’s Jake Tapper lamented, “As an American, I do wish that we were better represented in this beautiful procession of world leaders.”