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Here's The Deal With That Glowing Orb — And Plenty Of Notes On What It Isn't

It seemed an innocuous gesture: President Trump joined two other world leaders in laying their hands on a lit-up globe at an event in Saudi Arabia. Then, Twitter caught wind of it.
Together with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Saudi King Salman, President Trump holds onto a lit-up globe at the inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh.

It's pretty safe to say President Trump did a few attention-grabbing things this weekend on the first leg of his . He to the leaders of Muslim-majority countries, for instance, and took part in a

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