In 2019, during the Trump administration, Joe Biden criticised bin Salman, describing him as a pariah due to the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.[195] In July 2021, six months into the Biden presidency, bin Salman's brother Prince Khalid, the Saudi deputy defence minister, visited the United States. It was the first meeting between senior U.S. and Saudi officials after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in 2018.[196] In September 2021, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with bin Salman. In the meeting, bin Salman ended up shouting at Sullivan after he raised the killing of Khashoggi.[195]