“Senior aides to Barack Obama accompanied four Uighur prisoners as they were flown from Guantanamo Bay to the British colony of Bermuda”
I would think that this is very unusual and odd.
What this really speaks to is how he feels about what his election meant...to him, it meant he's not just the POTUS, he's the goddam ruler of the world; we all just haven't recognized that fact-in-his-mind yet.