Can President Hussein Obama stand up to this man?

It hasn't been so long since the picture above happened. Now, a bipartisan group of 80 legislators and foreign policy wonks is urging President Hussein Obama to confront Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the lack of democracy in his country. Can Obama do it?

“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is increasingly undermining a
central pillar of the decades-long, strategic U.S.