If he had wanted to bow, he should have asked the protocol officers how to do it properly. That is what the protocol officers are FOR.
What he did was gauche, condescending and made him look like a stupid rube.
I suspect 0 is too conceited to ask someone how to properly do something. And I suspect his protocol people are clueless - remember the ‘reset button’? Not to mention the gadzillion other protocol gaffs.