Child Fainting as Ten Commandments Law Signed Goes Viral

Moments before Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a bill requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, a child standing behind him fainted, as shown in a video now going viral on social media.

On X, formerly Twitter, several accounts have posted short segments of Landry's speech announcing the law. The videos show a young girl in a white shirt standing behind the governor fainting and falling over while the audience applauds the Ten Commandments bill.

Landry doesn't appear to notice, or at least does not stop his speech, continuing, "because if you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses," while several people behind him try to help the girl.

Newsweek reached out to Governor Landry's press office for comment via email on Thursday.

A video of the incident posted by The Recount, a video media outlet, has over 1.8 million views, nearly 1,100 reshares, and 700 likes as of Thursday afternoon.

The Lincoln Project, founded by anti-Donald Trump Republicans back in 2020, replied to The Recount's post with a video compilation of various Trump quotes and media segments speaking about Trump overlaid with text of the Ten Commandments. The X post was captioned, "The leader of their part breaks all the Ten Commandments."

After displaying an abbreviated version of the Ninth of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shall not bear false witness," the video played footage of Trump walking out of the Manhattan Court House where he was found guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in his criminal hush money trial last month.

MSNBC host Katie Phang reposted the Recount's video, writing, "Gov. Landry with a self-satisfied smug look while a young child passes out behind him." Her post has been reshared over 1,350 times as of Thursday afternoon.

A shorter video segment of the girl fainting was posted by Georgia State University constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Kreis, with the caption, "Have we all just overlooked the fainting child behind the governor of Louisiana signing the Ten Commandments law?"

On Wednesday, the Republican governor signed into law legislation that requires the Ten Commandments in "large, easily readable font" to be displayed in all public classrooms starting in 2025. A "context statement" will appear alongside the poster, explaining how the Commandments "were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries."

The law impacts kindergarten classrooms all the way up to state-funded university classrooms. The move makes Louisiana the first state to require its display.

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