President Joe Biden’s mention of a “new world order” in a speech to the CEO left QAnon supporters and other conspiracy theorists in tears from Monday night through Tuesday.
Biden warned executives to beef up their cybersecurity over fears of a possible Russian hack in the near future during the quarterly Business Roundtable executive meeting. Fears are growing that Moscow may attack the West in retaliation for sending military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine to help it resist Vladimir Putin’s brutal and bloody invasion.
The president said the world is at a “tipping point” because of Putin’s attack, signaling a shift that he says “occurs every three or four generations.”
“As one of the top military officials told me the other day at a secret meeting, between 1900 and 1946, 60-60 million people died. And since then we have established a liberal world order, and this has not happened. soon,” Biden said.
“Now is the time when everything changes. We’re going to… there’s going to be a new world order, and we have to lead it. And we have to unite the rest of the free world for that.”
The phrase has electrified parts of the internet that have long claimed that world leaders are working behind the scenes to create a massive global “shadow government”. Among them were many supporters of former President Donald Trump.
On Monday, Biden spoke before the Business Roundtable when he said Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine signaled the need for a “new world order” led by the United States and the rest of the free world.
Even some elected officials, who also believed that the 2020 election was “rigged” against Trump, seized on Biden’s comments.
“No Joe Biden, I’m not looking forward to a new world order,” Colorado Republican Party spokeswoman Lauren Bobert tweeted on Tuesday.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia, who was known to promote QAnon conspiracy theories before entering Congress, said on the platform, “Stagflation is coming. Just like in the 1970s again. But this time we are on the verge of World War III and the globalists want a new world order.”
Republican congressional candidate Errol Webber called the president’s remark “another conspiracy theory that came true.”
Webber claims to be backed by Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a leading figure in the QAnon community.
Florida Representative Matt Goetz tweeted: “Reject the New World Order. Accept America first.”
Notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has been making allegations of authoritarian efforts for a “new world order” for nearly three decades, went on a tirade laced with swearing after Biden’s speech.
“Yes, you went. Yes, you went. I have a lot of words for you, but in the end, to hell with you and your new world order, and to hell with the horse you were riding and all your shit. Jones said in a video from his InfoWars website.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has promoted the “shadow government” conspiracy theory associated with the new world order for decades, dropped the bomb several times in a scathing reaction to Biden’s speech.
The phrase “new world order” has been used in the past to refer to a major shift in the organization of world powers, such as after a global conflict.
It is known that former President George W. Bush resorted to it during the crisis in the Persian Gulf in 1990.
“From these troubled times, our fifth goal, a new world order, may emerge: a new era—freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more certain in the pursuit of peace.” said the late leader in September of that year.
But more often it is used in extremist circles to describe a conspiracy theory dealing with a vast global network of shadowy actors and “elites” working to establish a worldwide socialist “government” to control the masses.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, proponents of the theory fear that “through repressive measures, as well as fabricated crises such as terrorist attacks and pandemics, globalist conspirators seek to destroy dissent and disarm Americans so that the New World Order can enter and enslave them.
It has also been used as an anti-Semitic trope along with the conspiracy theory that Jewish figures have disproportionate influence in world affairs.
Pro-Trump lawmakers, such as Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, lashed out at the president’s remarks in an apparent dog whistle on the outskirts of their base.
Marjorie Taylor Green, who promoted the QAnon conspiracies before entering Congress, appeared to echo the alt-right group’s claims of a “global” conspiracy.
He was also promoted by Errol Webber, the Republican congressional candidate who claims to be backed by Trump’s former national security adviser and leading QAnon figure Michael Flynn.
The pro-Trump message board Patriots.Win also lit up with a flurry of responses to Biden’s speech.
Minutes after Biden’s final speech, a flurry of panicky comments appeared on the Trump supporters message board Patriots.Win, which replaced the now defunct The_Donald Reddit page.
“We were all warned years ago, so we made a fuss about the upcoming election theft,” commented one user of the president’s speech video.
Another person wrote: “I don’t understand why he openly broadcast this. It’s like they want a civil war at the same time as World War III.”
Conspiracy theorist Luke Rudkowski tweeted, “Ah, it’s a new world order that Biden is behind, where have I heard that before?”
Robbie Starbuck, a conservative activist running for the Tennessee House of Representatives, ridiculed the president’s comments.
“I don’t want Joe Biden leading the line for Jello at the nursing home, let alone the world. The lunatics that brought us the lockdowns creating the ‘New World Order’ are horrendous,” Starbuck tweeted.