Story highlights David Wheeler: People freaked out about picture of Trump in Saudi Arabia with hands on glowing orb. I'm not freaked. The glowing orb is a friend of mine

He says he met the orb at Burning Man and it told him three predictions about the orange being who would one day touch the orb

David Wheeler is a freelance writer, a journalism professor at the University of Tampa and the editor of the online magazine AliveTampaBay.com. Follow him on Twitter: @David_R_Wheeler. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) Everyone's freaking out about Donald Trump's involvement with the glowing orb, on which he placed his hands during his visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday -- along with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud,and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi -- to officially open, we're told, the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology.

But I'm here to put everything into context. I know the glowing orb. The glowing orb is a friend of mine. The orb -- whose name is Orville, by the way -- appeared to me in a beautiful hallucination at Burning Man back in '95. We've been in touch ever since -- sometimes in dreams, sometimes over email. It turns out that, as long as we all behave according to Orville's strict instructions, and follow his orders blindly and unquestioningly, we'll be fine.

David R. Wheeler

You might be interested in three predictions Orville made that have already come true.

Prediction No. 1:

America will empower an orange being in November of 2016.

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