When Donald Trump signed an executive order surrounded by key advisers and public figures, the internet was not looking at the desk, the pens, or even the official policy. Instead, social media zoomed in on a woman standing directly over the President’s shoulder—and within hours, a clip of her intense, continuous nodding exploded across X and TikTok.
As commentators, meme-makers, and amateur sleuths analyzed her every movement, a bizarre conspiracy theory took hold: was she being controlled by an e-collar, or perhaps hit with electric shocks to keep her nodding on queue?