A report on Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia–United States relations

Official portrait, 2012
Official portrait, 2021
U.S. President Donald Trump with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh, May 2017.
Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, (L to R) mid-1970s in Honolulu
Biden at Archmere Academy in the 1950s
King Ibn Saud converses with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board the USS Quincy, after the Yalta Conference in 1945.
Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).
Biden in the Syracuse 1968 yearbook
President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, at the Mayflower Hotel in 1957
Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, 2009
Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware
King Saud and John Kennedy meet at the king's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida in 1962
Obama playing in a pickup game on the White House basketball court, 2009
Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977
King Fahd with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Ivana and Donald Trump in 1985. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan.
The Obamas worship at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., January 2013
Biden with President Jimmy Carter, 1979
U.S. President George W. Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Crawford, Texas, April 25, 2002
State Senator Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998
Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984
Former Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the White House.
Results of the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois; Obama won the counties in blue.
Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994
Prince Mohammad bin Salman with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C., June 13, 2016
Official portrait of Obama as a member of the United States Senate
Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997
Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his advisor Ahmad Asiri (blamed for Khashoggi's death) meeting U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, July 2016
Obama and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian facility for dismantling mobile missiles (August 2005)
Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.
Protesters against the U.S.-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen were led away handcuffed by New York police outside the U.S. mission to the UN on December 11, 2017
Obama on stage with wife and daughters just before announcing presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007
Biden at the White House in 1987
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman, July 2021
2008 electoral vote results. Obama won 365–173.
Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007
Visa page from Saeed al-Ghamdi's Kingdom of Saudi Arabia passport recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
2012 electoral vote results. Obama won 332–206.
Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois
15 out of 19 September 11 terrorists were Saudi Arabia nationals
Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2009
Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009
Protest against U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, March 2018
Obama delivers a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009.
President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Jamal Khashoggi (left) at a 2018 Project on Middle East Democracy forum in Washington, D.C.
Obama visits an Aurora shooting victim at University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.
Biden during a visit to Baghdad
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, August 25, 2016
The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on the evening of the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, June 26, 2015.
Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden
U.S. Navy has actively participated in the Saudi-led naval blockade of Yemen.
Deficit and debt increases, 2001–2016
Biden and Obama, July 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with King Salman in Riyadh, January 2015
US employment statistics (unemployment rate and monthly changes in net employment) during Obama's tenure as U.S. president
Official vice president portrait, 2013
U.S. President Donald Trump, King Salman, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, May 2017
Obama at a 2010 briefing on the BP oil spill at the Coast Guard Station Venice in Venice, Louisiana
Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016
Protest against the war in Yemen in New York City on August 14, 2020
Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010.
Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016
Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income and federal poverty level, under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014 (Source: CRS)
Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017
Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: JAMA)
Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019
June 4, 2009 − after his speech A New Beginning at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama participates in a roundtable interview in 2009 with among others Jamal Khashoggi, Bambang Harymurti and Nahum Barnea.
Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021
Obama with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, January 2015.
Biden with his Cabinet, July 2021
Obama meets with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, October 2016.
Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021
Meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron during the 2010 G20 Toronto summit
Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021
Obama after a trilateral meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right), White House Cabinet Room, May 2009
Percent change from a year earlier
Obama meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office, May 2009
Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015.
Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office
Obama and members of the national security team receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. See also: Situation Room
Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022
Obama talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2013.
President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012
President Obama meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Panama, April 2015
President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017
Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2015.
Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020
Presidential approval ratings
Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.
G8 leaders watching the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final
Obama with his then-new successor Donald Trump and his later successor Joe Biden, at the former's inauguration on January 20, 2017
Obama playing golf with the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, October 2017
Obama and his wife Michelle at the inauguration of Joe Biden
Job growth during the presidency of Obama compared to other presidents, as measured as a cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of his term
First official portrait of Barack Obama as President of the United States, 2009
Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.
Obama and Donald Trump, January 20, 2017

A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

- Joe Biden

Obama was elected over Republican nominee John McCain in the general election and was inaugurated alongside his running mate Joe Biden, on January 20, 2009.

- Barack Obama

The training started during the Obama administration and continued till the first year of President Donald Trump.

- Saudi Arabia–United States relations

In August 2021, President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan released a statement calling on OPEC+ to boost oil production to "offset previous production cuts that OPEC+ imposed during the pandemic until well into 2022."

- Saudi Arabia–United States relations

In 2016, the Obama administration proposed a series of arms deals with Saudi Arabia worth $115billion.

- Barack Obama

Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and to reevaluate the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia.

- Joe Biden
Official portrait, 2012

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