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"look something shiny, nope nothing going on in the Persian gulf, ooOOoo UFOs and aliens!" The white house should do the release in coloring book format.

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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's like some childish popularity contest backbiting thing but the twist is they're both war criminal administrators of empire (previous and current):

Comments from Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, went viral last weekend after podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen asked the former president if aliens are “real.”

“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama responded. “And they’re not being kept in, what is it? Area 51. There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

On Thursday, Trump accused Obama of disclosing “classified information”.

The president told reporters aboard Air Force One, “I don’t know if they’re real or not,” and said of Obama, “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”

Obama clarified earlier this week that he had not seen evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” but said, “statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”

Trump told reporters Thursday that when it came to the prospect of extraterrestrial visitors: “I don’t have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it.”

And yeah, I agree it is distraction more than anything else.

[–] immuredanchorite@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

obama

what was it again those ding dang kids were calling it? ah, yes, area 51