President Obama claims to be a man of the world, but his actions in the face of the Brussels tragedy prove otherwise, says LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham.

As the world stands in shock at the atrocity carried out by Islamic terrorists in Belgium, Obama decides to tango the night away, Ingraham noted on Fox News’ “Special Report.” “That he couldn’t have turned down the dance — that would have been just a moment” to offer solidarity, she said.

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“Think about how many times he’s invoked the global community” and “global understanding, citizen of the world,” said Ingraham. “And this is a time where our allies are really hurting … these bombs vaporized people … we have missing Americans.”

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“The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together,” Obama said in Berlin in 2008. Obama’s hypocrisy in turning his back on our European allies is made all the more jarring by the steps he’s taken to diminish America in the eyes of the world in an apparent effort to appease it.

From his infamous Apology Tour at the beginning of his presidency, to his repeated slights against our British allies, and most recently in Cuba, where he praised the Cuban Revolution and American Revolutions as equally legitimate “liberation movements.”

“For president Obama, his role is not so much to be out there projecting American strength, but restraining America,” said Ingraham. For Obama “America is a problem with the world, whether it’s on Gitmo, whether it’s on the Second Amendment” or “aggressive foreign policy — we are the problem” as far as Obama is concerned, Ingraham said.

“The idea that he’s going to come out there and advance American interests in the wake of this — that’s just not his style.”

“People of the world — the scale of our challenge is great,” Obama said in Berlin. “The road ahead will be long” but let “us build on our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world,” he proclaimed.

Apparently he forgot to mention dancing was more important than all of that. “The sense from the American people is that this is just not all that important,” said Ingraham. “For someone who talks about the global community as much as he does,” it doesn’t look like “he’s all that worried about it.”