Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed as she revives 'birther' conspiracy theory about Barack Obama

ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Georgia's most controversy-prone representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene just decided to breathe new life into one of the most exhausted conspiracy theories in modern political history—the claim that former President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.

The same falsehood that President Donald Trump once pushed is somehow making a comeback.

Marjorie Taylor Greene faces backlash for promoting Barack Obama 'birther' conspiracy theory

Now the chairwoman of the DOGE Subcommittee—which collaborates with the Elon Musk-led initiative that prides itself on "uncovering fraud"— Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X (formerly Twitter) to promote the already debunked claim, the Daily Beast reported.

"Oohhh this is great!!" she excitedly wrote while reposting a video captioned, "Obama’s birth certificate was fraudulent!"

The video shared in the post was from a 2016 press conference held by the controversial former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County Joe Arpaio. The event was widely covered by local media at the time. Despite Arpaio's best efforts to push the narrative, it didn’t hold up then—and certainly doesn’t hold up now.

X users quickly stepped in to add context under the post reshared by Greene.

The community note reads, "Footage of the press conference held by the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, is from 2016, not 2025, as is implied by posts on social media. The press conference was documented by local media on December 15, 2016." It also contains a link to access Obama's birth certificate. 

Arpaio lost his re-election bid in 2016 and hasn't held office since, but that hasn’t stopped people like the Georgia congresswoman from reviving his claims nearly a decade later.

Unsurprisingly, social media lit up in response to Greene’s post. Obama's admirers were not in the mood for reviving another conspiracy about their favorite president.

One wrote, "Oh c**p here we go again," and another said, "They can never get away from their 'greatest hits.'" 

"They are resurrecting this because they want to change the constitution to allow Trump to run for a third term, but they don't want Obama to be able to run," an individual insisted.

One more wrote, "Here comes the MAGA conspiracy theories again. 15 years ago, we would laugh at clowns like you— Trump normalized this degenerate behavior," and another person pointed out, "Only problem is, Marj, it's already been disproved. Years ago. I think that clips from a number of years ago."

"Omg...when will you people stop??? Marjorie Taylor Greene, you were elected to serve the people of Georgia....so far you've done absolutely nothing but follow the Orange Man's conspiracy theories...You can't stand the fact that Pres. Obama was a good person/president...now look what you have pfft," another shared.  

Taking a jab at Greene and DOGE, one more said, "Has DOGE looked into how much taxpayer money is being wasted on the salaries of Republicans in Congress?"

Conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's citizenship just won't die

For those who might have forgotten, the birther movement claimed that Barack Obama was not a natural-born US citizen and was therefore ineligible to be president under Article Two of the Constitution.

Despite overwhelming proof that Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii, birthers pushed all kinds of wild theories: That his birth certificate was a forgery, that he was actually born in Kenya, that he somehow lost his US citizenship after living in Indonesia, and that he was a dual citizen at birth (British and American) and therefore not "natural-born."

None of this was true, but that didn’t stop Trump—then a real estate mogul and reality TV star—from making it a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign. The rumors persisted even after Obama released both his short and long-form birth certificates.

Polls found that millions of Americans still believed the conspiracy theory even after Hawaii’s Department of Health confirmed his birth records, even after it was proven that Obama's birth was announced in Hawaiian newspapers in 1961, and even after multiple court cases failed to disqualify him.

As of 2010, a staggering 25% of Americans admitted to doubting Obama's birth status. Even after he released his long-form birth certificate in April 2011, a Gallup poll found that 13% of Americans—and 23% of Republicans—still weren’t convinced.

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