Does anyone really think Trump wouldn’t have already tweeted about it if true? In fact, what politician would not take the chance of being the first to announce to the world the existence of extra-terrestrial life. That’s an instant way to get into the history books.
That is all.
Why would that thing on his head want to blow it’s cover?
Hillary is a devout believer in aliens and UFOs and promised to release all government files on contacts etc. if elected; however, I’m pretty sure a president doesn’t have carte blanche to reveal government secrets, and she would have been stopped for the safety of the country ( had there been any such secrets, which I doubt ), and forced to show only anodyne filler material to placate her fellow enquirers.
However, like Reagan ( who stated he saw UFOs ), she would have been free to continue to research phenomena on her own time as president, and to seek contact whether there was anybody there to listen or not…
What makes you think that the military would tell him?
(On a sidetrack, what makes you think “the military” would be the ones to make the call?)
I guess the US Air Force counts as military, and they’d be the most concerned — at least over items coming from the sky — ( a previous president was a devotee of the Hollow Earth Theory, which is in the same ballpark, and devoted funds to it ); yet I agree no military branch would be in charge of the paranormal.
In the United States the President is exactly who has carte blanche to reveal government secrets; the U.S. system of classified information has been established by executive order. If a newly-sworn-in President wished to reveal government secrets, all she or he has to do is issue an executive order ordering that the details of the Secret Federal Government Underground Lab in Nevada with the UFO wreckage and the dead aliens in it be declassified.
This sort of reply is common (along with notions that the Secret Service can “overrule” the POTUS in some legal sense–“No, sir, we can’t permit you to travel to Sokovia for the World Summit on Super-powered Individuals. It’s for your own safety.”) Constitutionally speaking, no executive branch official (including military officers) has that authority; the “executive Power” is vested in the President of the United States. Congress might try to pass a law limiting the President’s control over some part of the executive branch (over his own security or over Area 51 or whatever), but that might very well be overturned by the Supreme Court as violating “separation of powers” principles; in any event, if Congress hasn’t passed any such law, there definitely isn’t some Higher Authority in the U.S. military or any other part of the executive branch which can “stop” the President of the United States from doing something, or “force” him to do something else.
Civil servants and military officers may certainly advise, respectfully submit to, explain to, plead with, and try to cajole the President; they can threaten to resign, or actually resign; having resigned they might raise a huge public stink about something (although that obviously would be counterproductive if they’re disagreeing with the President’s decision to publicly reveal something that was formerly secret). And of course they can–though legally and constitutionally they may not–break the law and, for example, just straight up lie. (“Aliens in Area 51? No, sir, we don’t have any aliens in Area 51.”) Finally, there are gray areas in between, like stonewalling or delaying–“We’ll get that information to you just as soon as we can sir!” (“If we delay long enough, maybe he’ll be distracted by something shiny and forget all about the damned aliens.”)
If Trumpo discovers the USA released a small but radioactive bomb accidentally in Siberia 20 years back and told no-one, I’m pretty sure he would be dissuaded from announcing it, even if it meant the old sudden needle in the neck and a sorrowful announcement our beloved president passed today from an unforeseen massive heart attack.
But that would be illegal. Granted, people do things that are illegal all the time; but it would still be illegal.
I mean, it’s the old question: does a leader have the right to tell the world the planet will be completely destroyed in 3 months even if that is true ?
The consequences are such that governments would keep that stuff to themselves.
No way in hell would the CIA/NSA allow any President, especially this President, to know about the existence of aliens. Heck, they probably wouldn’t allow President Trump to have the real nuclear codes, either. I’ll bet the codes they gave Trump on Inauguration Day are actually the dimensions on Playmate of the Month.