MAGA Reacts to Trump Alien Announcement
By: Joe Edwards (Newsweek)
ODS!
Now we know that Barack Obama lives in Trump's head. Is this Obama Derangement Syndrome?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Several high-profile MAGA figures and Republicans have publicly reacted to President Donald Trump's announcement that he will direct his administration to release government files related to aliens and associated phenomena.
Why It Matters
A 2021 Pew Research Center survey found that 65 percent of Americans believed intelligent life could exist on other planets.
What To Know
On Truth Social, Trump said he would instruct Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to start locating and making public any government records concerning unidentified flying objects and potential extraterrestrial life.
"Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters," Trump wrote on Thursday.
Public interest in the topic jumped over the past week after former President Barack Obama touched on the existence of extraterrestrials during an interview with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.
In a quick-fire segment of his podcast, Cohen asked, "Are aliens real?" Obama answered, "They're real, but I haven't seen them," also rejecting the idea that they were stored at Area 51.
After his remarks gained widespread attention online, Obama sought to clarify what he meant, writing: "Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us."
The surprise announcement from Trump also sparked a flurry of jokes and memes across social media.
What People Are Saying
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republicanwho chairs the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets: "Thank you POTUS! As the Chairwoman of the Task Force that investigates these subjects, we are incredibly grateful for you doing this! I look forward to going through all the footage, photos, and reports with the public!"
Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican: "Tonight, President Trump is directing full disclosure of UAP and UFO files. In October, I wrote to DoD, CIA, NSA, and DNI demanding exactly that. The truth belongs to the American people."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted Trump's announcement, adding an alien emoji followed by a saluting emoji.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS from President Trump…"
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung shared a GIF of The X-Files characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
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Is Donald Trump just monkeying around? Or does Trump suffer from ODS?
When the hospital boat arrives in Greenland to treat the dead and diseased, the Aliens will emerge from the hold and introduce themselves...........
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Trump's stupidity is boundless. So is Leavitt's.
Are we sure it's Obama?
Like his wife?
This is idiotic:
There are no friggin' aliens on our planet. The only way it would be possible is if an advanced species had somehow managed to move in space faster than the speed of light. Or if technologically advanced aliens exist in our solar system, but have been hiding from us successfully.
Not likely. Trump is clueless.
This nonsense we can have. But the fight to get all of the Epstein files continues.
With Truth Social still available while do people (trolls) go to such lengths to break back into NT?
Amazing.
How 'bout giving us some proof of folks back-dooring into NT.
That would be an interesting read.
Comment 5.1.2.
It doesn't take a genius when the perp announces who he was.
and thanks to Gazoo once again for being a team interloper.