Joe Biden announced on Monday that “one of the top military people” during a security meeting told him that a “New World Order” is on the horizon, and the United States is meant to lead it.
The phrase, long popular among world leaders, has also been a frequent point of skepticism among those concerned about the globalization of the world economy and the international entanglements faced by the United States.
BIDEN: "There's going to be a new world order out there and we have to lead it." pic.twitter.com/jNfUmUO80p
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“You know we are at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy — not just the world economy, in the world. Occurs every three or four generations,” Biden said.
“As one of the top military people said to me in a security meeting the other day, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946, and since then, we’ve established a liberal world order and that hadn’t happened in a long while.” Biden explained, “There’s going to be a New World Order out there and we have to lead it.”
Shortly after the President made the remarks, users online began commenting on them across various online platforms. On Twitter, the phrase began to trend to the tune of at least 112,000 tweets.
In turn, the Big Tech platform put a statement that claims about the phrase are “unfounded,” adding that concerns about the phrase amount to a “conspiracy theory.”
“Unfounded claims about the ‘New World Order’ conspiracy theory are discussed after President Joe Biden used the phrase as he spoke about the United States’ response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during an address at Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting,” Twitter’s note reads.
The New World Order is a popular phrase among world leaders, and is believed to have first become a target of skeptics when it was used by 41st President George H.W. Bush.
The BBC reports that the phrase was first used as far back as the 1960s.
Fact checkers claim that concerns about a New World Order, or leaders who use the phrase, are part of a vast right wing conspiracy theory.
The remarks from the President came during a roundtable discussion surrounding the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the economy.
