Trump did something very strange on his Saudi Arabia trip and nobody's talking about it - INTO
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Trump did something very strange on his Saudi Arabia trip and nobody’s talking about it

Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia—a country with an atrocious record i/r/t LGBTQ+ rights—has been covered to death by the press. But there’s one aspect of his visit that’s raising eyebrows, and none of the mainstream journalists have given us their take on it.

Luckily, that’s what TikTok is for. Over the weekend, one incredibly astute poster showed us a clip that we can’t get out of our minds.

@intagibleasset

Replying to @Heaven Leigh 🔻🕯️ for you!!

♬ original sound – Miss.Information

As you can see from champion poster Ms. Information’s video, there seems to be something shady going on concerning an exchange of papers. Trump can be seen standing next to the Prince and receiving papers from a dignitary. But what are the papers? Were they intended to embarrass Trump? As the original poster points out, Trump looks like he doesn’t want the camera to get a good look at those photos—but what do they contain?

Back in the day there was a rumor floating around concerning a certain piss pig video—perhaps it wasn’t the Russians who had the ammo on Trump after all, but the Saudi Arabians.

In the comments, viewers are floating their own theories. “It’s the real election results,” one user wrote. “Girl, you might be on to something because who prints out hard copies nowadays!? Papers are easier to destroy and harder to trace,” someone else noted. Intriguing…perhaps a case of blackmail? As many others noted, we need a lip reader on this case post haste!

Whatever’s in those papers, it’s definitely weird that no one has previously thought to comment on this bizarre exchange.

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Henry Giardina (he/they) is the editor of INTO. He lives in Los Angeles. Past publications include the New York Times, The Believer, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, Film Comment, and Gizmodo. He is @punkgroucho on Twitter.