A new book claims that the glowing orb that President Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi were pictured touching in a viral image was hidden by officials after the Saudis gave it to the U.S.

In his book “MBS,” a profile of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, New York Times correspondent Ben Hubbard writes that after the 2017 photo taken at a Riyadh summit, the Saudis left the orb at the American Embassy, The Guardian reported.

“It sat in a hallway for a number of days, where diplomats passing by would pose for photos,” Hubbard wrote, but “someone apparently worried that the photos would make their way online and cause a scandal, so the orb was hidden away in embassy storage.”

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The three took the photograph, which sparked numerous memes and parodies, as part of the launch of Saudi Arabia’s Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology.

And here’s Trump at the opening of the “Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology” in Riyadh pic.twitter.com/gshRT2nFLU — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 21, 2017

The book, set to be published next week, also details the Saudi crown prince’s role in Saudi foreign policy, including the war in Yemen, and his connections with the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 in a Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Hubbard also claims the Saudis appear to have attempted to hack his phone, echoing claims by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosHillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll Amazon planning small delivery hubs in suburbs Voting: The great equalizer in a polarized society MORE.

The Hill has reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh for comment.