Donald Trump Touches A Glowing Orb With Saudi Leaders And Twitter Loses Itself

What he was doing explained.
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A mystery gripped social media on Sunday when a photo emerged of US President Donald Trump holding a glowing white orb with Middle Eastern leaders.

The snap from his visit to Riyadh, Trump’s first overseas trip, became the subject of much speculation.

oh you know, a bunch of plutocrats in a darkened room putting their hands on a glowing orb in a totally non-illuminati kind of way pic.twitter.com/Q2Ue2FBi6l

— shrill 🇺🇸🌲🏀 (@theshrillest) May 21, 2017

Trump During the Campaign: "I will NEVER touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles."
Trump Today: pic.twitter.com/eWoaDeXj8n

— Nick Greene (@NickGreene) May 21, 2017

"Get ready to hit the buzzer when you know the answer, how many rights should women have" pic.twitter.com/VtkLsXBhQ0

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) May 21, 2017

just some billionaires gathering in the dark and holding a glowing orb. probably fine

— jon hendren (@fart) May 21, 2017

you're all laughing but glowing orbs are part of their culture, you can't not touch the orb

— joe (@mutablejoe) May 21, 2017

imagine if they came over here and we showed them del boy falling through the bar and they didn't laugh: disrespectful

— joe (@mutablejoe) May 21, 2017

"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble." pic.twitter.com/Zp7whnPzCk

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 21, 2017

Child: do you remember when Trump touched the Orb?

Me: Yes. None of us realized what it would-

Orb Police: HAIL ORB

Me & child: hail orb

— Gödel, Escher, Baka (@jephjacques) May 21, 2017

RIYADH — President Trump announced today that the Orb is his God now, praise to Its Luminescence, O how he longs for the warmth of Ørb pic.twitter.com/lSCjHgotgW

— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) May 21, 2017

So what was he up to?

Trump was attending the opening of the Global Centre for Combating Extremist Ideology along with Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi when the photo was taken.

The state-of-the art centre aims to monitor and combat global extremism in real time.

During the opening, the leaders in attendance placed their hands on an illuminated globe as a gesture of their combined commitment to ending terrorism, and to officially activate the centre by launching a welcome video on the screens above.

Knowing Twitter, that will end the conspiracy theories. Definitely.

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