Trump appears to threaten aliens with 'military the likes of which we've never had before'

[Bootes Void]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-aliens-us-military-ufo-fox-news-b968340.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Donald Trump did not deny media reporting that the US Department of Defense has set up a task force to examine “unidentified alien phenomena” after the Air Force released a video earlier this year showing pilots flying by what many people have speculated was a UFO.

“Can you explain why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force?” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Mr Trump in an interview on Sunday.

“Are there UFOs?” she asked.

“Well, I'm going to have to check on that. I mean, I've heard that. I heard that two days ago. So I'll check on that. I'll take a good, strong look at that,” Mr Trump said.

He then quickly segued into a boast about US military might, which some people on Twitter took to be the president threatening aliens with human weaponry.

“I will tell you this, we now have created a military the likes of which we've never had before, in terms of equipment. The equipment that we have, the weapons that we have, and hopefully — hope to god we never have to use them,” Mr Trump said.

“Russia, China, they’re all envious of what we’ve had. All built in the USA, we’ve rebuilt it, $2.5trn. As far as the other question, I’ll have to check on it. I heard about it two days ago actually,” he said.

Mr Trump has not shied away from playful chatter about aliens and UFOs.

In an interview with his son Don Jr in June, the president hinted that he had seen some “interesting things” about the famous alleged UFO sighting and crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

US defence officials claimed the object that crashed was a weather balloon, but the explanation has not dissuaded UFO enthusiasts from treating the city and the broader region as a kind of pilgrimage site.

Eventually the US military admitted that the wreckage was part of a top-secret atomic project.

[Alben Barkley]

Stop, stop, satire is already dead.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

From the "What does Trump do if Biden is up by 10+ three days before the election?" thread:

Trump knows the polls indicate trouble for him, no matter his public defiance of them. That close to e-day, he's going to try something new to change them (and he's already tried most of the options on this list to various extents).

This one's odds-off, but I think the most likely of the many barrel-scraping manoeuvres he might attempt would be to announce alien contact on Twitter and then immediately pivot to "We can't change leadership in a crisis," messaging.

[Democrat 2028]

Truly the mark of a stable individual.

[Alben Barkley]

From the "What does Trump do if Biden is up by 10+ three days before the election?" thread:

Trump knows the polls indicate trouble for him, no matter his public defiance of them. That close to e-day, he's going to try something new to change them (and he's already tried most of the options on this list to various extents).

This one's odds-off, but I think the most likely of the many barrel-scraping manoeuvres he might attempt would be to announce alien contact on Twitter and then immediately pivot to "We can't change leadership in a crisis," messaging.

Anyone stupid/crazy enough to believe that was already voting for him.

Also, might backfire anyway because if an alien says “Take me to your leader,” do you really want to take him to Trump?

Pollsters really need to start asking who voters trust more to handle an alien invasion. I bet Biden has a big advantage.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

From the "What does Trump do if Biden is up by 10+ three days before the election?" thread:

Trump knows the polls indicate trouble for him, no matter his public defiance of them. That close to e-day, he's going to try something new to change them (and he's already tried most of the options on this list to various extents).

This one's odds-off, but I think the most likely of the many barrel-scraping manoeuvres he might attempt would be to announce alien contact on Twitter and then immediately pivot to "We can't change leadership in a crisis," messaging.

Anyone stupid/crazy enough to believe that was already voting for him.

Also, might backfire anyway because if an alien says “Take me to your leader,” do you really want to take him to Trump?

Probably, but I could see some people who'd otherwise be nonvoters (not enough to change the race, though) showing up for the alien invasion election.

[Omega21]

Welcome to Memerica!

[インターネット掲示板ユーザー Punxsutawney Phil]

Trump memes. He memes so good you can't expect it. He has the best memes. The best memes. He only has the best memes. Sleepy Joe's memes are so bad, so bad. Only Trump has good memes. Trump memes like you've never seen before. Vote Trump if you want more good memes. Biden won't just defund the memes, he'll stop building the wall, to keep out evil memes. No one else could have mustered enough courage to keep out memes from China. Weak Democrat mayors care less about law and order and less about memes. The radical left ANTIFA hates high energy Trump memes. Biden is weak on China. Biden is weak on China memes. Trump will protect America from Chinese memes.

[Where's the Epstein Client List?]

Trump is basically the president from the movie Mars Attacks! so this fits.

[7,052,770]

Anyone with the slightest bit of research into the Fermi Paradox knows that the solution isn't, "duh they're already here! UFOs!!"

[Wrong about 2024 Ghost]

From the "What does Trump do if Biden is up by 10+ three days before the election?" thread:

Trump knows the polls indicate trouble for him, no matter his public defiance of them. That close to e-day, he's going to try something new to change them (and he's already tried most of the options on this list to various extents).

This one's odds-off, but I think the most likely of the many barrel-scraping manoeuvres he might attempt would be to announce alien contact on Twitter and then immediately pivot to "We can't change leadership in a crisis," messaging.

My googling skills fail me at finding it, but back in the long-ago early days of the Trump administration, I remember reading a sarcastic prognostication of how by the time the 2020 election arrived, Trump would be saying he was the only one who could protect the US from the alien armada hiding behind the Moon.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

it's good to be prepared, just in case.

[Kuumo]

When I first saw this thread I thought it would be about Trump threatening to use the military on illegal aliens. Then it was somehow even weirder than what I expected. You can’t make this stuff up!

[NewYorkExpress]

Has Trump been watching Independence Day again?

[Senator Sirius]

Trump would probably be the one who causes the alien invasion.

[Meclazine for Israel]

I wish Australia had a plan of attack for the day we fight the Aliens.

I might move to the USA to sign up to Space Force.

[25 Abril/Aprile Sempre!]

My first thought was the following.

It is said that Caligula once declared war on the god Neptune (the sea) and ordered his soldiers to collect seashells as "war trophies".

It is said that Caligula was either completely nuts or a ruthless and lying manipulative bastard.

[longtimelurker]

https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Illegal_Aliens_From_Outer_Space!

[Stranger in a strange land]

The military would be absolutely crushed by any civilization that had developed the capacity for interstellar travel. Such a civilization would likely view us as not worth interacting with, for both our safety and theirs. I kind of have a feeling that aliens know about us, have visited earth, and have decided to leave us alone for similar reasons that most sane people have decided we should leave the Sentinelese and whatever uncontacted tribes remain in the Amazon alone.

[SteveRogers]

If the military actually knew about aliens, Trump is the last person they would tell.

[emailking]

The vast distances they would be required to cross is sufficient reason to dismiss extra-terrestrial visits without extraordinary evidence to the contrary. Some pilots seeing a phenomenon they can't explain, is not that.

If aliens are here then they have nothing to fear from our military as they could surely crush us handily if they're advanced enough to master interstellar travel. They're also probably not looking to invade or they would have done so already.