Here we are, poised to enter intergalactic war, all because the US president raped some alien babies. The guy just can't help himself!

The aliens took him to epstein's island.

I dunno about that last bit, seems like they are totally ok with the pedophilia, murdering children and sex trafficking. In fact, they seem to think those things are pretty damn cool.

Two consenting males getting it on behind closed doors - now THAT is a bridge too far!!

Remember when people thought that there was a video out there where someone peed on him or something that that's what's gonna finish him? Those were the days.

I think a video of him blowing Bubba would be worse in the eyes of his base.

Epstein geneticaly engineered catgirls out of alien DNA, honest!

Oh yeah, this has happened multiple times, and the story is always the same:

1. The government says they're going to release info on UFOs. This caused a brief flury of interest from the general public which is reinforced by the conspiracy theorists who swear that this will finally be proof of little green men at area 51, or whatever.
2. The government takes a while to follow through, during which time the general public slowly loses interest. The conspiracy theorists start getting impatient and publicly worrying that there must be a faction within the government that's deliberately slow walking the release or even modifying the documents because they don't want The Truth to get out.
3. The documents are finally released. They consist of 99% dry, beauracratic paperwork and 0% admissions that aliens have every visited earth, but the conspiracy theorists dig through and pull out a few scraps that can be spun to make a good headline.
4. The nation spends at most a week talking about "video taken out the window of a fighter jet of a mysterious floating orb thats porobably just a balloon" #27, or "eye witness account from a sleep deprived 18 year old soldier who swears he saw an alien space ship while on guard duty at 2am" #382.
5. The national news cycle moves on, and most people promptly forget about the whole thing. Meanwhile, the conspiracy theorists take whatever scraps they were able to find and add these to their rotating library of bullshit to talk about. The initial promise that this was going to be irrefutable proof that aliens have visited earth is quietly forgotten. If it ever does come up, they blame that shadowy faction of the government which must have succeeded in watering down the release before publishing it.

Rinse and repeat.

Or by just dropping the unredacted files on a usb key into the right mailbox.

Is it me or are people just not that bothered about aliens, compared to in the 90s?

He did do this during the first term. There wasn’t anything interesting, but it did distract the conspiracy folks.

Honestly, if there were alien craft zipping around, I can imagine why no government would want to disclose them. It would basically be an announcement of, "these damn craft are flying around the atmosphere and the space around Earth. They're utterly beyond anything we're capable of. We're not sure if they're aliens, time travelers, beings from another dimension, literal angels or demons, or something even stranger. But we are utterly at their mercy. They're spying on us constantly, for purposes unknown. Oh, and occasionally they'll just abduct people and carry them off for God-knows-what reason. I'm sorry, but there is literally nothing we or any human being can do about this. They're basically gods to us, and we know next to nothing about them, where they come from, or why they're here."

What leader would ever want to give that speech? I don't consider it likely we are being visited by non-human intelligences. But if we were, it wouldn't be anything like Roswell and Area 51. We wouldn't have a base full of downed or crashed alien craft. They simply wouldn't crash, and we would have no ability to shoot them down. A real announcement of alien visitors wouldn't be the reveal of some vast secret government project, a revealing of secret strength. It would be us saying, "we've been working on this problem for nearly a century, and we've learned nothing. All we know is that they're there, and we can't do a damn thing about it." It would a confession of weakness and utter helplessness, a government openly admitting it's completely powerless to protect its people from an unknown outside threat. Can you imagine a president telling the public, "yeah, you might get abducted by aliens. Sorry, that just happens sometimes. There's nothing we can do about it."

It would represent a complete shattering of our species' sense of value and security. And voters tend not to like politicians who tell them the unvarnished truth.

Racist aliens!