1) Following the Charlie Hebdo Attack in January of this year, No senior US Official joined the Paris solidarity march against terrorism that DID include 40 world leaders. Instead, the US Ambassador to France represented our nation.
2) The White House demonstrated its lighting technology on June 29th when it 'painted' the White House in the Rainbow GLBT... colors following the US Supreme Court strike-down of DOMA (Gay Marriage!) On other occasions it has done pink for breast cancer and other color schemes as well. ... Yet, following the 11/13 terrorist Paris attack, when MULTIPLE nations on 11/14 lit their landmarks with the colors of the French Flag, 'The Tricolor', nobody, so far as I can find out, made the effort at the White House. Of course Obama and party were traveling and I'm sure that the carrier pigeon got lost!
Lighting up the White House in red, white and blue was suggested by an aid, but Valarie Jerrett nixed it because it would look “too patriotic” and bolster the right wing.
The White Hut pays a lighting technician $75K annually to perform this function vital to America.