Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Solar Eclipse Theory Goes Viral

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says she believes Monday’s total solar eclipse will be a sign from God, according to viral tweet that’s received 1.8 million page views.

“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent,” Greene wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday. “Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens.”

On Monday, the moon will be positioned so the sun’s entire disc is blocked in 13 states, plunging millions of people into darkness in the early afternoon. The path of totality will start in Mexico and move across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine before heading into Canada and out over the North Atlantic.

The eclipse is expected to draw large crowds as people around the nation head to areas in the path of totality to witness the spectacle. Meanwhile, officials in various states have voiced concerns about stretched public safety resources and an “enormous strain” on local hospitals, as well as congested roadways.

At least four states have urged residents to stock up on groceries and gas and to fill medical prescriptions in the days before the eclipse, as traffic could overwhelm local roads.

For those who miss the eclipse, their next chance to see one without traveling outside the U.S. won’t be until August 22, 2044. However, only three states will be in the path of totality, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, that year.

In her Friday tweet, Greene, a two-term congresswoman from Georgia, also mentioned Friday’s earthquake in New Jersey, which registered at a magnitude 4.8. Shaking was felt throughout the region, including New York state, Connecticut and Pennsylvania and as far away as Maine.

Greene, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, is known for promoting various conspiracy theories over the years. In 2021, she was stripped of her committee assignments shortly after taking office. She had questioned whether deadly school shootings were staged and whether a plane hit the Pentagon in the 9/11 attacks.

In the past, she has also promoted QAnon theories, which claim that the federal government is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping pedophiles in government, business and the media. Last year, she said she no longer follows theories she was “sucked into on the internet.”

Greene met with some ridicule over Facebook posts she made in 2018 about “Jewish space lasers,” in which she implied that a Jewish banking family, the Rothschilds; Pacific Gas & Electric; space solar power company Solaren; and California officials all had a hand in profiting from statewide wildfires.

“Bless your heart, Marjorie. Eclipses have been predetermined since the dawn of creation. You are perhaps the dumbest person ever elected to the United States Congress,” X user Christopher Hale responded on Friday to Greene’s post.

“As a strong Christian I completely disagree with this take,” wrote RedWave Press.

“Marjorie, thank you for keeping the oldest jokes about ignorant Republicans alive,” wrote Damin Toell.

“I think if God is sending us anything as a sign of the apocalypse, it’s people like you,” said Katherine Brodsky.

The earliest writings show that humans have taken note of solar eclipses dating back at least 5,000 years, according to NASA. Some of those writings include ancient Chinese records, including one translated passage, from 2134 B.C.E., that in English says that “the Sun and Moon did not meet harmoniously.”

Preserved Babylonian tablets provide physical records of numerous eclipses viewed between 518 and 465 B.C.E. One record identified a total solar eclipse on July 31, 1063 B.C.E., that “turned day into night. Another, from June 15, 763 BCE, was observed by Assyrians.