Of course, there is nothing new about such lobbyists being hired by foreign countries to promote trade with the United States. or anything necessarily unethical about promoting such bonds. But while the Saudi lobby has been busy telling a rose tale of the kingdom’s increasingly diversified economy, expanding women’s rights and exciting tourism opportunities (despite the pandemic moment), policymakers and the media reporting on them should turn to one remembering such a narrative is at least (and to put the matter as politely as possible) incomplete.