The president was widely criticized for greeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump.
Ahead of the trip, White House aides had said that Biden would limit physical contact and avoid handshakes during the trip due to COVID-19 concerns.
Some suggested the no-handshake policy was an effort to avoid a problematic image of Biden shaking hands with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler when he headed to Jeddah on Friday. But he was swiftly and widely criticized for beginning the meeting by fist-bumping the crown prince, known by his initials MBS.
As a presidential candidate, Biden had vowed to make Saudi Arabia a"pariah" in response to the killing but in a recent op-ed for The Post, he argued thatit was"shameful" that Biden had fist-bumped the Saudi crown prince.
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