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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Catherine Armecin Martin

The Internet Thinks a Weasel and the Large Hadron Collider Control the Timeline: Trump, McConnell, and Graham Are Their Proof

Photographed during the exhibition titled 'Understanding the Universe' at the Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata. (Credit: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

The Large Hadron Collider's latest shutdown began on 29 June 2026, yet some corners of the internet are treating it as the trigger for a 'reset' of reality itself.

A viral theory now claims that the collider's power failures, starting with a weasel-chewed cable in 2016, somehow align with Donald Trump's election and, a decade on, with the sudden health crises and death affecting Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.

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